insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 01 - March 2015

EDUCATION The extraodinary Bede’s Bede’s is an independent, co-educational school located on two stunning sites, one by the sea in Eastbourne and the other in the heart of the Sussex countryside. Nestled on a cliff top above Beachy Head, with stunning views of the sea, children come from across Sussex, Surrey and Kent to enjoy innovation in the classroom, expansive opportunities outside of it and outstanding care in every aspect of school life. At 13, pupils move up to Bede’s Senior School where they are joined by pupils from a range of feeder schools across the South of England and the Home Counties. Situated across 140 beautiful acres of the Sussex Downs and with a student roll of 750, over 300 Bede’s students board at one of the School’s ﬁve stunning boarding houses which were recently recognised by the Institute of Chartered Surveyors for their Outstanding Design and Innovation. Bede’s also has an extensive bus service for day pupils, with those who choose to stay onsite into the evening enjoying late bus options. Since the appointment of Headmaster Dr Richard Maloney in 2009, who was recognised by The Daily Telegraph in June 2014 as one of the UK’s ‘Top 10 Heads to Watch’, and bolstered by a partnership with Kings College London, Bede’s has enjoyed ﬁve successive years of record-breaking GCSE and A Level results yet remains determined to not topslice its intake. Instead, the School values personality, character and endeavour. With a reputation for peerless pastoral care, the School’s belief in holistic education sees pupils enabled to pursue passions personal to them, choosing from over 140 after school activities each week including computer programming, spray sailing, The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and the Bede’s Zoological Society, which sees pupils breeding endangered species in the School’s unique Animal Management Unit. Budding sportspeople at Bede’s enjoy outstanding facilities including a Sports Complex which boasts an 8-court sports hall, Fitness Suite, four squash courts and swimming pool. Elsewhere the campus also includes a 5-hole practise golf course, 12 outdoor sports pitches, a cutting-edge multi-use games area and one of only four international standard water-based hockey pitches in the United Kingdom. A school where every pupil is truly treated as an individual, Bede’s prides itself on educating not only for success in the material sense but in ways which empower young people to ﬂourish meaningfully, as rounded human beings. www.bedes.org Open Morning 7 March 2015 Open Morning 21 March 2015 Bede’s Preparatory School Duke’s Drive, Eastbourne East Sussex BN20 7XL T 01323 734222 IAPS – Boarding, ﬂexi-boarding and day Boys and girls 3 months to 13 Bede’s Senior School Upper Dicker East Sussex BN27 3QH T 01323 843252 HMC – Day, weekly and full boarding Boys and girls 13 to 18 BEDES_CombinedAd_InsideSussexMag_190x133mm.indd 1 86 bedes.org St Bede’s is a Charitable Trust which exists to educate young people Edmund Cudlipp Lower Sixth Economist 12/01/2015 14:36

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