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Bedales
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Motto Work of each for weal of all
Established 1893
Type Independent, Coeducational, and College Preparatory School
Headmaster Keith Budge
Founder John Haden Badley
Grades K -12
Location Bedales, Petersfield, Hampshire GU32 2DG,
Petersfield, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Campus rural
Website http://www.bedales.org.uk/

Bedales School is an independent school with a progressive ethos located in the village of Steep, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions An independent school is a school which is not dependent upon national or local Government for financing its operation and is instead operated by tuition charges gifts and Mixed-sex education, (or just Mixed education) also known as Coeducation, is the integrated education to males and females at the same school facilities The College Preparatory School (also known as CPS or College Prep) of Oakland California, is a four-year private coeducational day high school John Haden Badley ( 21 February 1865 &ndash 6 March 1967) author educator and founder of Bedales School, which claims to have become Petersfield can refer to any of the following places Petersfield Hampshire, a market town in England The Petersfield School Wildlife Hampshire has wildlife typical of the island of Great Britain England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A campus is traditionally the land on which a College or University and related institutional buildings are situated A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school relying upon private sources for all of its funding predominantly in the form of school fees Steep is a village in central Hampshire, England just outside the town of Petersfield. Petersfield is a Market town and Civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. Wildlife Hampshire has wildlife typical of the island of Great Britain England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

Bedales was founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of the conventional Victorian Public School. John Haden Badley ( 21 February 1865 &ndash 6 March 1967) author educator and founder of Bedales School, which claims to have become It has been coeducational since 1898 and it was the first coeducational independent boarding school in England. Its school emblem is a Tudor rose with a bee at the centre. The school motto is "Work of each for weal of all".

Bedales is noted for its beautiful arts and crafts library (1920–1921) fitted out by Ernest Gimson, the Lupton Hall (1911), and its grounding in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's own hands and skill Ernest William Gimson (Leicester Dec 21, 1864 - Sapperton August 12, 1919) was an English Furniture designer and Architect The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, and American Aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the

The school is also renowned for its liberal ethos and relaxed attitude, which has been the subject of intermittent controversy through much of its recent history. However, this ethos is reverting to Charterhousian views.

The school has established a reputation for high quality arts teaching and a dedication to drama, art and music. Bedales has an environmental award winning theatre which is also used by the local community.

Bedales is one of the most expensive schools in the UK. These fees have risen in recent years due to building projects, which have included a new PE department and a new academic block.

The current headmaster of Bedales is Keith Budge.

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History

The school was started by Badley and his wife in a rented house called Bedales, just outside Lindfield, near Haywards Heath in 1893. Haywards Heath is a town in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. In 1899 Badley purchased a country estate near Steep and constructed a purpose built school including state of the art electric light, which opened in 1900. The site has been extensively developed over the past century, including the relocation of a number of historic vernacular timber frame barns. A preparatory school, Dunhurst, was started in 1902 on Montessori principles (and was visited in 1919 by Dr Montessori herself), and a nursery school, Dunnannie, was added in the 1950s. The Montessori method is an educational method for children based on theories of Child development originated by Italian educator Maria Montessori (1870-1952

Badley took a non-denominational approach to religion and the school has never had a chapel: its relatively secular teaching made it attractive in its early days to non-conformists, agnostics, Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Jews, who formed a significant element of its early intake. Unitarianism as a theology is the belief in the single personality of God in contrast to the doctrine of the Trinity (three persons in one God The school was also well known and popular in some Cambridge and Fabian intellectual circles with connections to the Wedgwoods, Darwins, Huxleys, and Trevelyans. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the The Fabian Society is a British Intellectual Socialist movement whose purpose is to advance the principles of Social democracy via Gradualist Books such A quoit tient la superiorité des Anglo-Saxons? and L'Education nouvelle popularised the school on the Continent, leading to a cosmopolitan intake of Russian and other European children in the 1920s.

Sixty-five out of the 250 Bedalians who served in the First World War were killed and the Memorial Library commemorates this sacrifice. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All

Bedales was originally a small and initimate school: the 1900 buildings were designed for 150 pupils. Under a necessary programme of expansion and modernisation in the 1960s and 1970s under the headmastership of Tim Slack, the senior school grew from 240 pupils in 1966 to 340, thereafter increasing to some 415 by 1990.

Curriculum and ethos

The early curriculum was remarkable for its modernity, with strong coverage of English and modern languages, science and design, as well having a strong "Carrot and Sandal" aspect; gardening, crafts and nature walks and drama taking the place of sports in a conventional public school. Academic standards in the early years oscillated through many phases of experimental syllabus.

In the first half of 20th century the progressive movement around Bedales attracted a community of artists, craftsmen and writers living in Steep. Edward Thomas - also killed in the First World war - and his wife moved to Steep in 1911. Philip Edward Thomas ( 3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was an Anglo-Welsh poet and journalist In the early 1920s Stanley Spencer made a number of drawings and paintings of activities at the schools while staying with Muirhead Bone at Steep. Sir Stanley Spencer ( 30 June 1891 &ndash 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Sir Muirhead Bone ( 23 March, 1876 - 21 October, 1953) was a Scottish etcher, Drypoint and watercolour Other important artistic connections include Edward Barnsley, Ernest Gimson, Alfred Hoare Powell and Arnold Dolmetsch

Despite its coeducation and the "shocking" proximity of adolescent boys and girls in a boarding environment (albeit diligently segregated), a key element of the school's early success was its ability to engender a somewhat puritan and priggish attitude to physical sex and to discourage "silliness". Ernest and Sidney Barnsley were Arts and Crafts movement furniture designers and makers associated with Ernest Gimson. Ernest William Gimson (Leicester Dec 21, 1864 - Sapperton August 12, 1919) was an English Furniture designer and Architect Alfred Hoare Powell (1865&ndash1960 was an English Arts and Crafts architect and designer and painter of pottery (Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch ( 24 February 1858 - 28 February 1940) was a French -born Musician and instrument maker who spent

Bedales has recently introduced 'Bedales assessed courses' which replace the GCSEs on the syllabus. One of the Bedales Assessed Courses (abbreviated to BAC)is Outdoor Work. This is not only a subject which students can take for their studies but also an option in the place of conventional sport, this has been a very positive aspect in developing the schools ethos many believe.

Co-education

The school's particular emphasis on arts, crafts and drama can be seen as a direct and deliberate legacy of early co-education theory, as explained by one of the school's most influential masters, Geoffrey Crump, in his book Bedales Since the War (1936):

"It is not enough to preach self control to a girl of fifteen who is just beginning to realise her power over the other sex, or to a boy of seventeen who is seriously disturbed by a girl of his own age. They don't want to be self-controlled. But one of the most valuable things that psychology has taught us is the importance of sublimation, and here is our chance. Adolescence is a time when it is natural to be active, and it is also an awakening to the power of beauty, beauty of all kinds - in colour form, movement, sound and spiritual aspiration. The boy and girl see these first in their human counterparts, and if left to themselves will hardly look anywhere else. But it is now that they are ready for the beauty of poetry, music, painting, drawing, and above all the earth around them, and these they must be given without stint. . . The tendency of modern civilisation is to hurry on the awakening of sexual consciousness - a fact that is much to be deplored, and that makes the tasks of all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses far more difficult. Children now see erotic films and posters and read erotic books at an age when we had not thought about such things. They hear erotic dance-music, with its imbecile sentimental words, wherever they go. The attitude of a city-bred boy of fourteen to a city-bred girl of fourteen is quite different from what it was ten years ago. "

With the more liberal society of the 1960s, the coeducational Liberal Arts ethos of the school became extremely fashionable, attracting many literary and arts parents, including Lawrence Durrell, Simon Raven, Robert Graves, Cecil Day-Lewis, Peggy Guggenheim, Ted Hughes, Edna O'Brien, John and Penelope Mortimer, Frederick Raphael, Joseph Losey, Peter Hall, Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Susan Hampshire, Jill Balcon, Mick Jagger, Jude Law, Pete Townshend, Sandie Shaw, Trevor Nunn, Jeremy Paxman, A. A. Gill, Colin Montgomery Roger Walters, Twiggy, Hayley Mills and Boris Johnson as well as minor British and European royalty. Lawrence George Durrell ( February 27, 1912 &ndash November 7, 1990) was an expatriate British Novelist, Poet, Simon Arthur Noël Raven (1927 - 2001 was an English Novelist, Essayist, Dramatist and Raconteur who in a writing career of forty Robert Graves (24 July 1895 &ndash 7 December 1985 was an English Poet, Translator and Novelist. Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE ( 27 April 1904 &ndash 22 May 1972) was an Irish -born Poet Peggy Guggenheim ( August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979) was an American Art collector Edward James Hughes OM ( 17 August 1930 &ndash 28 October 1998) was an English Poet and children's Edna O'Brien (born 15 December 1930 is an Irish novelist and Short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems in relating Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE QC (born 21 April 1923) is an English Barrister, Dramatist and author Penelope Ruth Mortimer, born Penelope Fletcher ( 19 September, 1918 - 19 October, 1999) was a British Journalist, Joseph Losey ( January 14, 1909 in La Crosse Wisconsin – June 22, 1984 in Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is a British theatre and Film director and innovator Laurence Kerr Olivier Baron Joan Ann Olivier Baroness Olivier, DBE (born 28 October 1929) better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English actress Susan Hampshire Lady Kulukundis, OBE (born on 12 May 1937 in London) is an English actress best known for her many Jill Angela Henrietta Balcon (born 3 January 1925) is an English film actress. Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, Kt (born 26 July 1943 is a Golden Globe -winning and two-time Grammy -winning English rock Jude Law (born 29 December 1972 is an English Actor. He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987 and had his first TV role in 1989 Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945 in Chiswick, London) is an English rock Guitarist, Singer, Sandie Shaw (born Sandra Ann Goodrich on 26 February 1947) was one of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s Trevor Robert Nunn CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre- and Film director. Jeremy Dixon Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is an English Journalist, Author and Television presenter. Adrian Anthony Gill (born June 28, 1954) is a British newspaper Columnist and writer using the byline A Biography Although Scottish by birth and ethnicity he was raised in Yorkshire, England, where his father James was Managing Director of Fox's Biscuits George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an English rock musician Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby; 19 September 1949) is an English Supermodel, Actress, and Singer, now also Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born April 18, 1946) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award -winning English actress Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964 is a British Politician and Journalist.

Recently, Keith Budge, the current headmaster, has been making the school more formal, so that high academic marks are required for entrance and high GCSE points are required at 6th Form. There have been attempts at overriding this from students who believe that the school and Badley's ethos is being ignored to make the school to become more traditional. However, none has prevailed, and more changes are being made, much to the dismay of the student body.

Notable Old Bedalians (alphabetical by surname)

Footnotes

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References

See also Bibliography for John Haden Badley. John Haden Badley ( 21 February 1865 &ndash 6 March 1967) author educator and founder of Bedales School, which claims to have become

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