Bede Polding College
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Bede Polding College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school, located in South Windsor, on the north-western outskirts of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school delivers a religious and secular education to approximately 1,200 students from Year 7 to Year 12.
Bede Polding College | |
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Australia | |
Coordinates | 33°37′58″S 150°47′54″E |
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Type | Independent co-educational secondary day school |
Motto | Called to Bring Peace |
Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
Established | 1986; 38 years ago (1986) |
Educational authority | NSW Department of Education |
Oversight | Catholic Education Office of the Diocese of Parramatta |
Principal | Mark Compton |
Teaching staff | ~100 |
Years | 7–12 |
Enrolment | ~1,200 |
Campus type | Suburban |
Colour(s) | Navy blue, maroon |
Website | www |
The school is administered by the Catholic Education Office of the Diocese of Parramatta[1] and serves the greater Hawkesbury region and the parishes of St Matthew's, Windsor and Richmond. The school opened in 1986 with 110 pupils and a staff of nine.
The school's patron is John Bede Polding, the inaugural Catholic bishop of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales.
The college was subject to a devastating fire in late 2003 that resulted in extensive damage to the administration building and teacher study areas.[2][3][4]