Head
Bedales School
Hampshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 15 May 2017
Job overview
Bedales was founded in 1893 with a determination to be different and to educate ‘Head, Hand and Heart’. Although much has changed since its inception, Bedales continues to be unlike other independent boarding schools. Be it through Outdoor Work, Jaw, BACS or hand shaking, Bedales strives to engender a sense of genuine partnership between each pupil and teacher, and to create a shared excitement about educational discovery, independent thought and innovation in a non-hierarchical community.
Bedales is a family of three schools which educates 750 boys and girls aged between three to eighteen years, the balance of whom board. The Schools are located on a 120 acre farm in rural Hampshire which is made up of orchards, woods, playing fields and a nature reserve.
Further information on Bedales can be found at www.bedales.org.uk
A candidate brief is available from www.odgers.com/60138
Letters of application and CVs should be sent by the closing date, Tuesday 16 May, to Freddie Dennis, Odgers Berndtson quoting reference CFD/60138.
Bedales is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
About Bedales School
Bedales School is an independent, co-educational, selective, day and boarding school for children aged 3-18. It is situated in Petersfield in Hampshire and there are 460 pupils on its roll. There are admission fees and scholarships and bursaries are available.
Bedales is a charitable trust and was founded in 1893 by J H Badley as a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes of the late-Victorian public schools. Its founding ethos was, and still is, “Head, Hand and Heart.”
Headteacher
Will Goldsmith
Values and vision
The school prides itself on having a strong sense of belonging and it has five core aims for its pupils; to develop inquisitive thinkers with a love learning, to help develop talents through doing and making, to foster each individual and encourage initiative, creativity and appreciation of beauty, to ensure students, alumni, parents and staff take pride in the communities distinctiveness and to feel valued and nourished, and to foster interest beyond the school, with the community and to develop national and international awareness
ISI
“The School is extremely successful in achieving its aims. It is a mutual learning society, determined to maintain its momentum for continuous development. At all stages, students are well educated, and the quality of their achievement and learning is excellent. Students with SEND or EAL achieve well and make rapid progress through the excellent support they receive as their needs are carefully met. More able students and those with particular gifts or talents achieve suitably high standards in a variety of activities.”
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