Bedales School A GSG School
- Bedales School
Church Road
Steep
Petersfield
Hampshire
GU32 2DG - Head: Magnus Bashaarat
- T 01730 300100
- F 01730 300500
- E [email protected]
- W www.bedales.org.uk/
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 13 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Hampshire
- Pupils: 462; sixth formers: 196
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: Day £29,235; Boarding £37,200 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..
Lots of opportunities for outdoor work, both within the curriculum and beyond. The school has its own farm and pupils plant trees, keep bees and learn about livestock management, blacksmithing, hedge laying, timber framing and wood whittling. We met a group of year 10 outdoor work BAC students preparing sheepskins, ready to send them to a tannery. Another lot were cooking pizzas to sell in the pizza shack at lunchtime...
What the school says...
Bedales was founded to be different from the schools of its time. Where others imposed conformity, Bedales nurtured individuality, initiative and an enquiring mind. True to its roots and founding principles the school places emphasis on collaboration and care for others.
Our students are naturally ambitious and competitive, and build strong relationships with each other and their teachers based on mutual respect; everyone, staff and students, is on first name terms. This approach enables students to concentrate on the complex business of learning, developing and becoming their own person. Bedales continues to be an onnovative school; we led the country in replacing many GCSEs with our own more interesting and demanding Bedales Assessed Courses. Our students move on comfortably to university and beyond, because they are self-disciplined, are already used to organising their own time, to studying in depth, and to mixing and debating with their elders. ...Read more
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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 2018, Magnus Bashaarat MA PGCE MBA (50s), previously head of Milton Abbey and before that deputy head of Stowe. Educated at the King’s School, Canterbury (he and Stowe head Anthony Wallersteiner were contemporaries), followed by the University of Edinburgh, where he read English. After work experience at the York Evening Press he decided to become a journalist and worked for the Observer and Evening Standard. He changed direction when he took a course in teaching English as a foreign language and found he loved ‘standing up in front of a class and helping people to learn’. PGCE at King’s College London, followed by two years at Sherborne and a 15-year stint at Eton, where he taught English and drama and was a housemaster for seven years. He also did a year at Sydney...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
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 |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheam School | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Dorset House School | 2020 | 1 | 1 | Scholarship: Music |
| Dumpton School | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Hanford School | 2020 | |||
| Highfield and Brookham Schools | 2020 | 1 | 1 | Music Scholarship |
| Newland House School | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Pinewood | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Summer Fields | 2020 | 1 | ||
| Westbourne House School | 2020 | 2 | 2 | John Badley Foundation Award; Music Scholarship |
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