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Bedales School is a co-educational, boarding and day independent school in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conventional Victorian schools. Bedales continues to be one of the most expensive public schools in the UK. For the school year 2015/2016, boarders' fees are £11,230 per term, a similar figure to that charged by Harrow (£11,095)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interactive Schools )〕 or Eton (£11,090).〔http://www.etoncollege.com/currentfees.aspx〕 Bedales is renowned for its liberal ethos, relaxed attitude, fashionable parents and famous alumni. The ''Tatler Schools Guide'' used to cite Bedales as "a bohemian idyll with bite", 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". Since 1899 the school has been on an 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). ==History== 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bedales School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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