Bedgebury School, Goudhurst, Kent, set in 250 acres of beautiful Wealden countryside near Tunbridge Wells, offers an excellent mixture of academic achievement and concern for the care and happiness of each one of its 350 girls aged from three to eighteen years.
A family school on three sites, we foster whatever talents each girl has, to ensure that the academically gifted child can shine, the more average child can succeed at her own level, and each can learn to appreciate the talents of others. The arts are encouraged in all forms, as hobbies, and as special subjects. The City & Guild Diploma in Fashion and Design can be taken in the Sixth Form. Many girls takes Sciences at Advanced Level, while Secretarial Skills, Business Studies, Theatre Studies, Communication and Media Studies are available as well as the Cook's Professional Certificate.
The BHS Grade 5 Riding Centre has stabling for 60 horses, with two covered schools and rides through 3,000 acres. Up to ten Sixth Formers take BTEC Equestrian Business Management and/or BHS Assistant Instructor examinations each year. Modern university style Sixth Form boarding house has single study bedrooms.
37% of the Upper School and 66% of the Lower School pupils are day girls: the boarders come mostly from the home counties and the south east, while a quarter are daughters of serving officers or expatriates, or from other countries.
Scholarship examinations are held in January for entry at 11+ into Junior School, 13+ into Senior School, and in November for 16+ into the Sixth form. Awards can be academic, music, art, drama, sports, and in the Sixth form, Science and Fashion also. We welcome also bright dyslexic girls who receive extra specialist tuition.
Magnificent new Art & Technology Centre. Girls go on to all leading Universities and Colleges including Oxford and Cambridge, and foremost colleges of Art and Music.
As part of the extra-curricular programme, all girls who join Upper School take part in our popular Personal Development courses, and again in the Lower Sixth year.
Bedgebury School is a registered charity providing a Christian education.
