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Bedales School is a public school (co-educational private school, boarding and day) in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1893 by Amy Badley and John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conventional Victorian schools and has been co-educational since 1898.
Amy Garrett Badley (née Mary Amy Garrett; 27 May 1862 – 30 October 1956) was an English educator, suffragist, co-founder of Bedales School, and a vice president of the National Council for Equal Citizenship.
John Haden Badley (21 February 1865 – 6 March 1967) was an English author, educator, and founder of Bedales School, which claims to have become the first coeducational public boarding school in England in 1893.
Bedales School is a co-educational private school. It is a boarding and day school in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire , England. It was founded in 1893 by Amy Badley and John Haden Badley as an alternative to usual Victorian schools.
Bedales was founded by John Badley and Oswald Powell in 1893 to be a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes typical of late-Victorian public schools which our founders felt ‘simply would not do’.
8 wrz 2023 · John Badley’s vision of a co-education boarding school educating both sexes together was finally realised in 1898 when a girls’ boarding house was established in Scaynes Hill. Eight girls formed the first year’s intake.
Bedales comprises three co-educational boarding and day schools located in 120 acres of South Downs National Park in Petersfield, Hampshire: The vision of Bedales founder John Badley was to create a school which would be profoundly different from the public schools of his day.
