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Breda Academy, Belfast

LEARNERS TODAY, LEADERS TOMORROW

 

Welcome to Breda Academy

Our School Community!

Breda Academy is a vibrant and flourishing school community in its 10th year which continues to grow and build on our enduring achievements and move from strength to strength! It is a vibrant, diverse, and successful all-ability school in South Belfast with 825 students aged 11 to 19 and 95 members of staff. We pride ourselves on being a welcoming, warm, friendly, and caring school where we place a very high value on establishing and nurturing strong positive relationships between students, staff, and parents/carers.

Students are expected to be safe, polite, and ready to learn and develop core values and behaviours such as respect, responsibility, charity, and kindness, as we give these ‘values’ equal importance to attaining academic results. Developing these values will also help our students to be more open minded, tolerant, forgiving, supportive, and caring of each other regardless of gender, background, ethnicity, culture and/or religion.

We take pride in celebrating the many talents and achievements of our students, and in particular reward their effort and positive attitude, and encourage them to learn from their mistakes, as it is our central belief that much can be accomplished through hard work and by not giving up.

In the past eight years, due to the combined hard work and resilience of our students and staff, our examination results have continued to increase significantly. In August 2025, 96% of Year 12 students attained 5 A* - C GCSE/Level 2 grades and in the past 4 Years 96% of 400 Year 12 students have attained 5 A* - C GCSE/Level 2 grades. Also in 2025, 73% of our Year 14 students attained 3 A* to C A Level/Level 3 grades, meaning that in the past 4 Years 70% of 350 Year 14 students have attained 3 A* to C A Level/Level 3 grades.

We continue to expand as a community and in September we welcomed 130 new Year 8 students who are now flourishing and enjoying school life. We are very proud that the Academy offers all students a 7-year learning journey and our 6th Form continues to grow and thrive, and we currently have a record 184 Year 13 and 14 students studying A-Level and Level 3 qualifications and taking advantage of our new study centre with its advanced ICT facilities and a full-time member of staff as their study supervisor.

We place our students at the heart of all we do and provide them with excellent pastoral care to promote their wellbeing, tailored support to meet their needs and high-quality teaching to ensure they make continual progress in each key stage of their learning. The Academy provides an inclusive and diverse curriculum and a wide range of qualifications and enrichment opportunities to develop our students’ education, skills, and resilience to be successful lifelong learners, confident individuals, and responsible citizens.

It is our ambition at Breda Academy that students are ‘Learners Today and Leaders Tomorrow’ and when they leave us, they will go on to be future change makers and take an active role in shaping and making Northern Ireland and the world a better place for us all. To quote John F Kennedy the 35th President of America; “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

Please come and join our community!

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Barcelona Adios Barcelona, we’ve had an absolute blast. What a finish to our trip; a photo with Ben Williams, famous boxer, in the airport! #bredaacademytravels
Barcelona Today was definitely the most exciting day so far. We had a bit of a later start this morning which we all very much needed. We then set off on the coach to head to PortAventura where we all had an amazing time trying all the scary rides and watching a parade. Don’t worry, the teachers also had lots of fun on the rides as well. Then at 6pm we went to Ferrari Land and spent time there. We were all very happy to get our dinner at the hotel after a great day out. After a quick trip to the shops, we headed back to pack and get lots of rest for our big shopping trip tomorrow. Kassie and Giulia #bredaacademytravels
Barcelona From Salou to you! Today we started off at 7am and had breakfast at 8. We then headed to Montserrat. It was quite scary as we went up a very tall,windy mountain in the coach to see some breath-taking views. At Monserrat we all sang Happy Birthday to Jude! We headed to the cafe before going to Park Güell, a park designed by Gaudi. After we had fun doing all these things some people went to a stall to get some tasty snacks. We then made our way back to the hotel, all chatting on the bus before getting ready to go for dinner. We are now having a great time at bowling and we’ve had the best day together. Ruby, Jessica, Beth, Emily and Heidi #bredaacademytravels
🏈 **Join Us for American Football Tag Training!** 🏈 No experience needed! Come along, have fun and learn the game. See you there! 🎉
Year 10 Geography students have been learning about the benefits and challenges of tourism. Fabulous posters were produced by all. Well done! 🌎
On Monday, Year 13 and Year 14 Health and Social Care students had the opportunity to meet with Liverpool John Moore University Nursing Team. At this event, students explored their interactive mini hospital, and engaged in discussions with their nursing student mentors and academic staff. Students explored clinical skills such as Basic Life Support, Injection Techniques, Realistic simulation in the Mobile Hospital Bay and VR Technology using Oxford Medical Simulation.
8KS have been learning about Human Rights in LLW. It was excellent to see all the students applying their knowledge and creating fantastic posters when selecting 10 laws for a new planet. Well done! #proudtobebreda