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Banstead Prep School
Bedales School
ADDRESS: Sutton Lane, Banstead, Surrey SM7 3RA WEBSITE: www.bansteadprep.com FOUNDED: 2017 NUMBER OF PUPILS: 220 AGES: 2-11 FEES: (termly) £3,790 – £4,870 HEAD TEACHER: Jonathan Chesworth BEd. (Hons.) RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: None ENTRANCE PROCEDURE: Non-selective. Nursery and reception: attend one of early years activity mornings held throughout the year. Years 1 – 5 taster day. CONTACT: Adrienne Forster, Head of Admissions & Marketing EMAIL: admissions@bansteadprep.com SCHOOL VISITS: For event dates and Virtual Open Day visit bansteadprep.com/admissions
ADDRESS: Church Road, Steep, Petersfield GU32 2DG WEBSITE: www.bedales.org.uk FOUNDED: 1893 NUMBER OF PUPILS: Pre-prep Dunannie: 89; Prep Dunhurst: 190; Senior School: 472 AGES: 3-8 (Dunannie); 8-13 (Dunhurst); 13-18 (Bedales) FEES: (termly) Nursery: £458-£635; Dunannie: £3,495-£4,610; Dunhurst: Day £5,930-£6,575; Boarding £7,780-£8,735; Bedales: Day £9,990; Boarding £12,710 HEAD TEACHER: (acting head) Will Goldsmith RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Non-denominational ENTRANCE PROCEDURE: Entry at 2 yrs 9 mths, 7+, 8+, 11+, 13+, 16+. Selection by assessment/residential assessment and interview. CONTACT: 01730 711733 (Bedales Senior) and 01730 711558 (D&D) EMAIL: admissions@bedales.org.uk SCHOOL VISITS: Open Mornings, Bedales: 5 February, 23 April 2022. Dunhurst: 5 March, 14 May. Dunannie: 1 February, 15 March, 26 April. Contact Admissions for Taster Days.
THE CURRICULUM: Our curriculum goes above and beyond what most prep schools are able to offer with exceptional facilities and specialist subject teaching right from the early years, developing into a fully specialist teaching programme from Year 4.
THE CURRICULUM: From the very youngest, pupils ‘learn through doing’ with a curriculum that has breadth and depth. In the senior school, students take a combination of iGCSEs and our own Bedales Assessed Courses (recognised by UCAS) in Global Awareness and Digital Game Design, for example. Sixth formers take enrichment courses in addition to A-levels.
GAMES & THE ARTS: Our impressive facilities, sport for all approach and specialist art, drama and music teaching spaces enable us to offer to provide a broad, rich curriculum and co-curricular programme. PASTORAL CARE: We’re dedicated to equipping children with skills for life, while helping each of them grow in character and be the best they can, every single day. We believe happy children learn best and confident children go far. RECENT SCHOLARSHIPS: 2019, 11 academic, art, music and sport scholarships; 2020 seven academic, art and sport scholarships; 2021 eight academic, art, drama and music scholarships. HEAD TEACHER’S PHILOSOPHY: School should be fun. Offering an exceptionally broad curriculum and co-curricular programme creates opportunities for children to be excited by and truly engaged with their learning and leads naturally to academic progress. Promoting positive mental health and wellbeing is critical to our success. OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS: Banstead Prep School has been rated Excellent in all areas in an ISI Inspection in September 2021. The school provides wraparound care from 07:30 – 18:00 and an in-house holiday club. Sports facilities include an on-site swimming pool, allweather pitch, netball court and full-size sports hall. Children of all ages benefit from subject specialist teaching and use of dedicated teaching spaces for art, drama, food technology, music and science. Forest school for children in nursery to Year 2 and life skills lessons for children in Years 3 – 6 encourage the development of independent learning and creative problem solving skills.
GAMES & THE ARTS: Bedales competes in many sports including football, hockey, tennis, cricket and netball. Excellent facilities include floodlit astroturf hockey pitches, tennis and netball courts and an indoor swimming pool. The school is acclaimed for its drama, theatre, art and music with opportunities for participation in performances and concerts. PASTORAL CARE: Every student is assigned a house parent with whom they build a close relationship, and a tutor to monitor and guide their individual academic progress. Tutor groups and dormitories are mixed age, to encourage communication and shared experience across the years with a separate 6.2 (upper sixth) house. RECENT SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are available from 10+ for music and academic, 13+ for art, and 16+ for drama, sport and design. HEAD TEACHER’S PHILOSOPHY: Bedales was founded as an alternative to the mainstream 19th century British ‘public school’ and we still strive to educate the young people in our care with the same questioning approach to learning and living. Our motto – ‘work of each for weal of all’ – emphasises our attention to nurturing the individual as well as our collective endeavour. Today, our approach draws on our innovative traditions with Bedales Assessed Courses taught alongside five core GCSEs, project-based learning as part of our Block 3 (Year 9) curriculum and approaches to boarding, pastoral care and interpersonal relationships that break down unnecessary barriers. Students go on to a range of prestigious academic and artistic institutions in the UK and internationally, joining a host of alumni who are Bedalian for life. OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS: Shared progressive ethos across the three schools with impressive university destinations including Oxbridge, music conservatoires, art college and institutions like Cornell and Columbia. Innovation in the curriculum with high expectations. 120-acre estate in the South Downs National Park and chance for involvement at the working farm.
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