Bedales School A GSG School
- Bedales School
Church Road
Steep
Petersfield
Hampshire
GU32 2DG - Head: Mr K J Budge
- T 01730 300100
- F 01730 300500
- E admissions@bedales.org.uk
- W www.bedales.org.uk
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 13 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Hampshire
- Pupils: 468; 360 full, 20 flexi boarders; sixth formers: 186
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: Day £27,816; Boarding £35,397 pa
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Bedales Pre-prep, Dunannie and Bedales Prep, Dunhurst
What The Good Schools Guide says..
This must be the only school in the country which has ‘appreciation of the beautiful’ as one of its aims. Outdoor work is a key part of the curriculum: from planting, to building a posh pig sty, to putting a new engine in an ancient Land Rover. Qualifications look different here too, to fit this more holistic vision of learning: ‘the wonderful BACs’ (as described by a parent) are a living alternative to GCSEs. ‘Education at its best’, said a parent, another describing her child’s delight at…
What the school says...
Bedales was founded to be different. Where other schools imposed conformity, we have nurtured individuality, initiative and an enquiring mind. We maintain high standards of behaviour, which we believe arise best from self-discipline and from caring about others. Although our students are naturally ambitious and competitive, the school places particular emphasis on collaboration. Our students move on comfortably to university and beyond, because they are already used to organising their own time, studying in depth, and mixing and debating with their elders. ...Read more
What the parents say...
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2015 Good Schools Guide Awards
- Best performance by Girls taking English Language & Lit at an English Independent School (GCSE)
Curricula
Cambridge Pre-U - an alternative to A levels, with all exams at the end of the two-year course.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since 2001, Keith Budge, married with three grown up children. Read English at Oxford, and came to Bedales via Loretto and Marlborough. His previous schools, says the head, did not have the child so much at their centre. Neither, presumably, did the pupils call him Keith. Children here own and shape their education; the teachers, says Keith, are their collaborators. Who, indeed, would collaborate with Sir?
The head is deeply committed to the underlying ethos of Bedales (education of head, heart and hand). These are the ideals, says Keith, but ‘idealism here has a strong thread of pragmatism running through it’. He also believes that a school needs to constantly reinvent itself: the head originated Bedales Assessed Courses (BACs) as an alternative to GCSEs, and also now offers enrichment as an...
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Special Education Needs
At Bedales, students with specific learning difficulties receive one-to-one support on a weekly basis with an SEN teacher. Typically, these students will receive one learning support lesson per week, and most of them will go on to achieve high grades at GCSE and A level. All but a few enter higher education where they read a wide range of subjects, notably maths and sciences but also history and English.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | Y |
| Dysgraphia | Y |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | Y |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| PD - Physical Disability | Y |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment | Y |
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Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amesbury | 2017 | 2 | ||
| Bedales Pre-prep, Dunannie and Bedales Prep, Dunhurst | 2017 | Majority to the senior school | ||
| Cumnor House Sussex | 2017 | 1 | ||
| Eaton House the Manor Prep and Pre-Prep | 2017 | 1 | 1 | Academic Scholarship |
| Hill House International School | 2015 | 1 | ||
| St Anthony's Preparatory School | 2015 | 1 | ||
| St Paul's Cathedral School | 2010 to 2015 | 3 | 1 | Music scholarship |
| The Prebendal School | 2016 | 4 | 3 | Music Scholarship (3) |
| Thomas's Battersea | 2017 | 1 | 1 | Music Exhibition |
| Twyford School | 2017 | 1 | ||
| Westbourne House School | 2017 | 4 | ||
| Windlesham House School | 2016 | 2 | 1 | Art Scholarship |
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