Bedales School is a co-educational independent school situated in Hampshire, in the south east of England. Founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conventional Victorian schools.

Bedales is renowned for its liberal ethos and relaxed attitude. The Tatler Schools Guide cites Bedales as "a bohemian idyll with bite",^[1] and the Good Schools Guide states that, although the school is "less distinctive than in the past", it is "still good for 'individuals', articulate nonconformists, and people who admire such qualities".^[2]

Since 1899 the school has been located on an 120-acre (0.49 km²) estate in the village of Steep, near Petersfield, Hampshire. As well as playing fields, orchards, woodland, pasture and a nature reserve, the campus also boasts two Grade 1 listed arts and crafts buildings designed by Ernest Gimson, the Lupton Hall (completed in 1911) and the Memorial Library (1921), and two contemporary award-winning buildings: the Olivier Theatre (1997) and the Orchard Building (2005).^[3]

History[link]

The school was started in 1893 by Badley and his wife in a rented house called Bedales, just outside Lindfield, near Haywards Heath. 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 primary school, Dunnannie, was added in the 1950s.

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. The school was also well known and popular in some Cambridge and Fabian intellectual circles with connections to the Wedgwoods, Darwins, Huxleys, and Trevelyans. Books such as A quoi 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.

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 465.

Ethos[link]

In the first half of 20th century the progressive movement around Bedales attracted a community of artists, craftsmen and writers to live in Steep. Edward Thomas, a poet killed in World War I - and his wife moved there in 1911. In the early 1920s Stanley Spencer made a number of drawings and paintings of activities at the school while staying with Muirhead Bone. Other important artistic connections include Edward Barnsley, Ernest Gimson, Alfred Hoare Powell and Arnold Dolmetsch.

With the more liberal society of the 1960s, the coeducational liberal arts ethos of the school became extremely fashionable, attracting many literary and artistic 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 Montgomerie, Roger Waters, Roger Meddows-Taylor, David Gilmour, Twiggy, Hayley Mills, Nick Knight, Kirsty MacColl and Boris Johnson, as well as minor British and European royalty.

Co-education[link]

Bedales has educated boys and girls together since 1898. The school's particular emphasis on arts, crafts and drama can be seen as a direct and deliberate legacy of this 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."

Curriculum[link]

The early Bedalian curriculum provided sound coverage of English and modern languages, science and design, while gardening, crafts, drama and nature walks also took place. Academic standards in the early years oscillated through many phases of experimental syllabus.

In September 2006 Bedales introduced 'Bedales Assessed Courses' (abbreviated to BACs), devised 'to move away from the constraints of too many externally examined courses, and to win back the freedom necessary to reflect the school’s creative ethos, and its emphasis on the individual, in our teaching and learning'.^[4] Students in Blocks 4 and 5 (Years 10 and 11) combine five or seven GCSEs - English Language, Mathematics and a Modern Language GCSE, as well as IGCSE Double Award Science, are compulsory for all students in these years - with two or three BACs. Ten BACs are offered: Ancient Civilsations, Geography, PRE (Philosophy, Religion and Ethics), English Literature, Art, Design, Dance, Classical Music, Theatre Arts and Outdoor Work.^[5]

Outdoor Work is a unique aspect of the Bedales curriculum. As well as being a BAC, it can be taken as an alternative to games. It involves a myriad of activities focussed on maintaining the school's estate, including 'building barns, making a pond and creating natural sculptures' as well as opportunities to 'make jam or chutney, plant trees and to undertake gardening and livestock management tasks'.^[6] There is also a weekly opportunity to bake bread in the traditional wood-fired bread oven.^[7]

As well as the many curricular courses Bedales offers, there is a wide range of student run activities and societies. These range from the more traditional societies, such as Debating, Philosophy, Literary, Maths, etc., to the more eccentric, such as (the ever popular) Harry Potter Society, Gem Sweater Jamboree, Tea Appreciation society (Iced Tea in the summer), Akido, Jazz Appreciation, etc.

Musicality and artistic traits[link]

Bedales School has always had a wide and varied curriculum. An area of particular notability, however, is its musical and artistic focus which has been the bedrock for the careers of many successful instrumentalists, artists, designers, photographers, actors and singers. They include Ben Adams (singer and songwriter), Lily Allen (singer), Teddy Thompson (singer/songwriter and musician), Grace Barnsley (pottery decorator), Jamie Campbell Bower (actor), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), Minnie Driver (actress) Allan Gwynne-Jones (painter), Iris Lemare (conductor) Harriet Logan (photographer), Gervase de Peyer (clarinetist, pianist and conductor), Luke Pritchard (singer), Natalia Tena (actress), Juno Temple (actress) and Sir Peter Wright (ballet dancer and director).

Current management[link]

The term 'Bedales Schools' incorporates Bedales itself (for ages 13–18), as well as Dunhurst (7-13) and Dunnannie (3-7). Since September 2009, Keith Budge, having formerly been Headmaster of Bedales School, has held the title of 'Head of Bedales Schools', although each of the junior schools has a separate Head as well. His role involves overseeing management and directing the long term future and ethos of the school.^[8]

Bedales (senior) School also has a 'Managing Head', whose role is to manage the 'day to day' aspects of the school and to be directly available to all members of staff. Dominic Oliver (BA, Sheffield; M.Phil, Oxon.), formerly teaching at Royal Worcester Grammar school and others, is now managing head of the senior school since September 2010.^[9]

Heads[link]

• 1893-1935 John Haden Badley
• 1936-1946 Frederick Alfred Meier
• 1946-1962 Hector Beaumont Jacks
• 1962-1974 Tim Slack
• 1974-1981 Patrick Nobes
• 1981-1992 Euan MacAlpine
• 1992-1994 Ian Newton
• 1994-2001 Alison Willcocks
• 2001- Keith Budge

Notable Old Bedalians (alphabetical by surname)[link]

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• Ben Adams (born 1981), singer/songwriter
• Lily Allen (born 1985), singer^[10]
• Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood (1897–1976), landscape architect and child welfare promoter
• Kirstie Allsopp (born 1971), TV presenter best known for presenting Channel 4 property programme, Location, Location, Location
• Daisy Bayliss (born 1989), Model
• Simon Anholt^[11] (born c.1961), independent policy advisor, author and researcher; pioneer of the concept of 'nation branding'^[12]
• Claire Armitstead (b.1959) Literary editor for The Guardian
• David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (born 1961), cabinet-maker, son of Princess Margaret
• Tom Arnold (born 1947), politician
• Grace Barnsley (1896–1975), pottery decorator
• Sebastian Bergne (born 1966), industrial designer ^[13]
• Bruce Bernard (1928–2000), photographer and picture editor
• Dame Helen Blaxland (1907–1989), writer
• Remy Blumenfeld born 1965, TV producer and entrepreneur
• Stephen Bone (1904–1958), artist, writer and broadcaster
• Sadie Bonnell (1888–1993), World War I First Aid Nursing Yeomanry ambulance driver, and first woman to win the Military Medal
• Jamie Campbell Bower (born 1988), actor
• Gyles Brandreth (born 1948), journalist, television presenter and former Conservative MP (City of Chester)
• William Bridges-Adams (1889–1965), theatre director, and Director, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 1919–1934
• Jocelyn Brooke (1908–1966), writer and naturalist
• Jeremy Browne (born 1970), Liberal Democrat MP for Taunton Deane
• Anna Bullus (born 1984), designer
• Selina Cadell (born 1953), actress
• Simon Cadell (1950–1996), actor
• Sir Michael Harris Caine (1927–1999), Chief Executive, Booker Bros. McConnell, 1975–1984, and promoter of Booker Prize
• Vice-Admiral Alfred Carpenter (1881–1955), World War I Victoria Cross recipient
• Charles Cecil, videogame designer
• Pat Chapman (born 1940), founder The Curry Club, author 36 books and broadcaster
• Clancy Chassay (1993–1996), journalist
• Lady Sarah Chatto (born 1964), daughter of Princess Margaret
• Denise Cheetham, artist and lawyer
• Julian Chichester (born 1950) English barrister and amateur photographer^[14]
• John Clapham (1908–1992), musicologist
• Sir Laurence Collier (1890–1976), Ambassador to Norway, 1939–1950
• Sophie Dahl (born 1977), model, author and chef
• Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957), Oscar winning actor
• Tamasin Day-Lewis
• Poppy Delevigne, model
• Alice Dellal (born 1987), model
• Charles Warren Hancock (born 1988), economist, philanthropist and entrepreneur
• Minnie Driver (born 1970), actress
• Peter Eckersley (1892–1963), broadcasting engineer, and Chief Engineer, BBC, 1923–1929
• Thomas Eckersley (1886–1959), theoretical physicist and electrical engineer
• Alice Eve (born 1982), actress
• Johnny Flynn, folk musician (with his band The Sussex Wit)
• Margaret Gardiner (1904–2005), artist
• Rolf Gardiner (1902–1971), ecological campaigner, youth leader and Nazi sympathiser
• Fiona Godlee (born 1961), physician and editor
• Tomás Graves (1953-), son of Robert Graves, writer, musician and designer
• Battiscombe Gunn (1883–1950), Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford, 1934–1950
• Allan Gwynne-Jones (1892–1982), painter
• John Pennington Harman (1914–1944), World War II Victoria Cross recipient
• Rebecca Harris (1967-), Conservative MP for Castle Point since 2010.
• Douglas Hartree (1897–1958), Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Manchester, 1929–1937; Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester, 1937–1945, and Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Cambridge, 1946–1958
• Robin Hill (1899–1991), plant biochemist
• Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979), painter
• Simon Hitchens (born 1967), sculptor
• Frieda Hughes (born 1960), poet and artist
• John Layard (1891–1974), anthropologist and psychologist
• Richard Leacock (born 1921), documentary film director
• Iris Lemare (1902–1997), conductor and concert organiser
• Lydia Leonard (born 1981), actress
• Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986), lyricist
• Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth (1935–2010), politician
• Tom Lodge^[15] (1936–2012), author and radio broadcaster
• Harriet Logan,^[16] photographer^[17]
• Geoffrey Lupton, Arts and Crafts
• Malcolm MacDonald (1901–1981), Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, 1935–1939, Minister of Health, 1940–1941, [High Commissioner to Canada, 1941–1946, Governor-General of Malaya, 1946–1955, High Commissioner to India, 1955–1960, Governor of Kenya, 1963–1964, and High Commissioner to Kenya, 1964–1965
• Joan Malleson (1899–1956), physician
• Jane Mayer (born 1955), American journalist and writer (attended Bedales as exchange student, 1972–73)
• Jazz Mellor (born 1983), daughter of Joe Strummer (lead singer of The Clash)
• Nina Murdoch (born 1970), painter
• Bas Pease (1922–2004), physicist
• Gervase de Peyer (born 1926), clarinetist
• Roger Powell (1896–1990), bookbinder
• Luke Pritchard, lead singer of The Kooks
• Sarah Raphael (1960–2001), painter
• John Ridding (born 1965), chief executive of the Financial Times.^[18]
• Sir Frank Roberts (1907–1998), Minister Plenipotentiary to the Soviet Union, 1945–1947, Private Secretary to Ernest Bevin, 1947–1949, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1954–1957, Ambassador to NATO, 1957–1960, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1960–1962, and Ambassador to West Germany] 1963–1968
• Sir John Rothenstein (1901–1992), art historian, and Director, Tate Gallery, 1938–1964
• Tess Rothschild (1915–1996), MI5 officer and penal reformer
• Alexis Rowell (born 1965), former BBC journalist, councillor for Belsize.
• Rupert H. Russell (born 1985), film producer and son of filmmaker Ken Russell
• Adrian Sack (born 1971), videogame designer
• Raphael Salaman (1906–1993), engineer and tool collector
• Samuel Isidore Salmon (1900–1980) Chairman J. Lyons and Co., Member of Members of the Greater London Council
• Emma Samms (born 1960), actress
• Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke (1893–1976), Director of Medical Services, Hong Kong, 1937–1943, and Governor of the Seychelles, 1947–1951
• Arthur Snell, (born 1975), British High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago, 2011 -
• Alix Strachey (1892–1973), translator of Sigmund Freud's works
• Kate Summerscale (1978–1983), author
• Charlie Swan (born 1980), artist
• Juno Temple (born 1989), actress
• Natalia Tena (born 1984), actress and musician
• Teddy Thompson (born 1976), singer/songwriter and musician
• Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth (born 1974)
• Julian Trevelyan (1910–1988), painter and printmaker
• Ethlie Ann Vare (born 1953) Writer and Journalist
• Valentine Warner (1985–1990), chef and presenter
• E. L. Grant Watson (1885–1970), writer and scientist
• Camilla Wedgwood (1901–1955), anthropologist ^[19]
• Josiah Wedgwood V (1899–1968), Managing Director, Wedgwoods, 1930–1961
• Arabella Weir (born 1957), writer and comedian
• Jamie West-Oram (born 1954), guitarist for the Fixx
• Michael Wishart (1928–1996), painter
• Sir Peter Wright, ballet dancer and director, Director, Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, 1977–1990, and Director, Birmingham Royal Ballet, 1990–1999
• John Wyndham (1903–1969), novelist
• Konni Zilliacus (1894–1967), writer and politician

Footnotes[link]

Joe Flynn, Singer/Songwriter and Actor

References[link]

See also Bibliography for John Haden Badley.

• A quoit tient la superiorité des Anglo-Saxons? Edmond Demolins
• Bedales School; A School for Boys. Outline of its aims and system J H Badley; Cambridge University Press, 1892
• Notes and suggestions for Those who Join the staff at Bedales School J H Badley; Cambridge University Press, 1922.
• Bedales: A Pioneer School J H Badley; Methuen, 1923
• Bedales Since the War Geoffrey Crump; Chapman and Hall, 1936
• English Progressive Schools Robert Skidelsky; Penguin, 1969
• John Haden Badley 1865-1967 Giles Brandreth & Sally Henry; Bedales Society, 1967
• Irregularly Bold: A Study of Bedales School James Henderson; Andree Deutsch, 1978 .
• The Public School Phenomenon Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1977
• Bedales 1935-1965 Memories and Reflections of Fifteen Bedalians HB Jacks; The Bedales Society, 1978
• Bedales School - The First Hundred Years Roy Wake, Pennie Denton. Haggerston Press, London, 1993

External links[link]

• Bedales School
• Report on Bedales Assessed Courses
• Profile on UK Boarding Schools
• Profile at the Good Schools Guide
• [3]

Coordinates: 51°1′13″N 0°56′32″W / 51.02028°N 0.94222°W / 51.02028; -0.94222

Jamie Campbell Bower
Bower at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born	James Campbell M. Bower[1] (1988-11-22) 22 November 1988 (age 23) London, England
Occupation	Actor, singer, model
Years active	2007–present
Partner	Bonnie Wright (2010–present)[2]

James "Jamie" Campbell M. Bower (born 22 November 1988) is an English actor, singer and former model. Bower is best known for his role as Anthony Hope in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, his role as Caius in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, his role as King Arthur in the Starz original series Camelot and as the young Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.

Early life[link]

Bower was born in London, England.^[3] His mother, Anne Elizabeth (née Roseberry), is a music manager, and his father, David Bower, works for the Gibson Guitar Corporation.^[4] His maternal 4th great-grandfather was Sir John Campbell, of Airds, Lieutenant Governor of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.^[5] He attended Bedales, and is a former member of the National Youth Music Theatre^[3] and the National Youth Theatre. He began his professional career when friend Laura Michelle Kelly, who also appears in Sweeney Todd, recommended him to her agent. In addition to acting, he is also the lead singer in the band The Darling Buds.^[6] Bower was a part-time model with Select Model Management in London.^[3]

Career[link]

He played Rocker in the film RocknRolla and Jack in Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter).^[6]

Campbell Bower starred in the 2009 remake of the series The Prisoner as Number 11-12.^[7] Also in 2009, he played Volturi member Caius in the film New Moon and both Twilight: Breaking Dawn films, alongside Michael Sheen.^[8] He appeared as the younger Gellert Grindelwald, the dark wizard defeated by Albus Dumbledore, in the 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.

He played King Arthur in the 2011 television series of Camelot.^[9]

In 2012 he appeared in the music video of Never Let Me Go (Florence and the Machine song) by Florence + The Machine.

He is set to play Jace Wayland in City of Bones, the film adaption of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. ^[10]

Personal life[link]

In February 2010, Bower was confirmed to be dating fellow Harry Potter actress Bonnie Wright. In April 2011, they confirmed their engagement.^[11]

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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