Bedales School A GSG School
- Bedales School
Church Road
Steep
Petersfield
Hampshire
GU32 2DG - Head: Will Goldsmith
- 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: 472; sixth formers: 188
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: Day £29,970; Boarding £38,130 pa
- Open days: 5 February 2022 – Bedales Senior Open Morning, 10am 23 April 2022 - Bedales Senior Open Morning, 10am
- 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 September 2021, Will Goldsmith (acting head). MA in English lit from Edinburgh. Joined the school as deputy head (academic) and before that director of teaching and learning and head of English at Latymer Upper, which followed teaching in both state and independent schools. Brought up as the child of expats in Africa, the Middle East and Far East; speaks fluent French, having lived in Paris for five years after graduating.
His partner, Andrew, is an English teacher who has been at Highgate School for over a decade and who divides his time between London and the Bedales estate. Big on diversity, working closely with students in supporting LGBTQ+ rights in school and beyond. Enjoys singing, having spent much of his life in a variety of chamber choirs.
Entrance
School is ‘inclusive and...
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanford School | 2021 | 2 | 1 Music Scholarship & 1 Art Scholarship | |
| Pinewood | 2021 | 1 | ||
| Thomas's Clapham | 2021 | 1 | ||
| Town Close Preparatory School | 2021 | 1 | ||
| Trevor-Roberts School | 2021 | 1 | ||
| Twyford School | 2021 | 1 | ||
| Westbourne House School | 2021 | 4 |
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