BEDALES ASSOCIATION and OLD BEDALIAN BEDALES ASSOCIATIONNEWSLETTER 2013 & OLD BEDALIAN NEWSLETTER 2015 CONTENTS Below, Bedales Rock Show, 2015 Welcome 2 Head’s Reflections 3 Rediscovering Community 6 OB Events 8 Edward Thomas 14 Reunions 16 John Haden Badley Society 17 A Good Habit Forming 18 OB Profiles 19 Art & Design News 24 Leading Art & Design 26 Bedales Arts 2015 28 Lest We Forget 29 Staff Profiles 30 News in Brief 34 Obituaries 41 Alan G Bush 41 David Cecil Butcher 42 Sholto Hamilton Georgeson 46 Joanna Dunham 47 Kenny Geer 48 Louisa Frederika Davis 48 Matthew Quantrill 49 Roger Lloyd Pack 50 Tamsin Donaldson (née Procter) 51 Births, Engagements, Marriages, Deaths 52 Recent Degree Results and Destinations of Leavers 54 Contents 1 WELCOME HEAD’S REFLECTIONS ON 2014 about to descend – especially when I learnt that To Members of the their short notice visit to inspect all three schools Bedales Association (for educational and boarding health) was to be in the final week of the Spring Term which is, let’s BEDALES be candid, a somewhat bleary-eyed time in the scholastic cycle. ASSOCIATION AGM It was therefore a real delight to see that, hoorah, they quickly “got” the place, deeming us Notice is hereby given of the 32nd “excellent” in all of the main student-facing areas. Annual General Meeting of the In previous inspections we have gained the top Bedales Association to be held at grade in all the pastoral categories but inspectors have been reluctant to give us the same accolade Bedales School on in teaching and learning; this time we achieved Sunday 28 June 2015 those accolades in all three schools with some unusually warm and colourful words like “love” The details are as follows: and “inspirational” managing to sneak through the clammy grasp of the civil servant editor. Given the ince I joined the Alumni Liaison (and about OBs), as well as school 11.0 0 Bedales Association AGM potential for regulatory howlers, it was also great Steam just over a year ago, I have had news and development initiatives. in the Reading Room to see us managing to be both (terrible word, this) the privilege of meeting many of you at The wonderful thing is that there compliant and full of colour, warmth, innovation various events. I have been fascinated is so much that we can include, and 12.30 Light lunch for Bedales ne of my 2014 highlights was a two hour and inquisitiveness – rectitude with fizz; to cap by the stories I have heard; from your we are extremely grateful to everyone Association members Oguided wander around the Estate in the it all, we were given due credit for achieving our favourite teachers and lessons, to who has shared their stories. The company of departing Head of Outdoor Work, demanding central academic aim (of developing life in the boarding houses and the Newsletter gives a fantastic overview Once the exact timings have been Peter Coates. Armed with a Dictaphone we inquisitive thinkers with a love of learning who mischief some of you got up to in your of the richness of our community and confirmed, they will be published ambled in a long anti-clockwise loop, starting cherish independent thought) but doing so whilst spare time! the incredible variety of paths taken on the school website, where the by Butts’ Field, progressing down Emma’s Walk keeping our regulatory nose clean. Working with Dennis Archer by Old Bedalians. As a vital part of the Bedales Association Annual Report to the Black Barn, then on past the new Kadian 2014 saw Michael Gove released from his and Philip Parsons over the last year has school community, do please continue will also be available. Observatory, and the Pav, skirting the Sam Banks educational mission and able to spend more time been an absolute pleasure, and I have to keep us up to date. Pavilion and into the Badley Oaks and then in the 1950s with his family. He left his successor learnt a great deal about Bedales and Thank you everyone who has Exact timings will also be available back through the John Rogers Orchard into that to be nicer to teachers and to put a brave-smiley its alumni in that space of time. I would made a contribution to Bedales over from: Helen McBrown by email magical centre of ODW – the Sotherington Barn, face on his trail of reform. Fortunately (and of like to thank Dennis in particular, who the last year; from attending reunions, ([email protected]) or Bonham’s Barn (The Bakery) and the two most course as a result of my far-sighted cunning plan), has so patiently taught me the ropes committee meetings and fundraisers, phone (01730 711561) who will also recent oak-framed buildings, one now sporting a we need have little truck with his changes to GCSE, and passed on his wisdom. He is to supporting the professional guidance send you a hard copy of the Annual natty splendid clock tower, atop all those wellies. as our students now take IGCSEs and Bedales always available to help, whether in initiative and careers fair, organising Report if you prefer. Please give her Although my main intention was to capture for Assessed Courses (BACs), but we have needed Scotland or France, and continues to OB events and of course donating the relevant address details. posterity as much local folklore as possible of to think carefully about the Sixth Form curriculum, be an invaluable link between you generously to our variety of causes. the great store that is in Peter’s head, our chatty as it will be from September this year. You will be and Bedales. Dennis has contributed We look forward to hearing from Richard Lushington circuit was a genial reminder for me how shaped glad to hear that, although the standard diet will to several sections of this Newsletter, you, and do come to visit us at events, Bursar and Clerk to the Governors and enriched our environment is by generations become three linear (i.e., you sit exams at the end helpfully compiling News in Brief, or if you are in the area. Bedales School, of Bedalians – and, crucially, how this both reflects of the course as most of you will have done if you Obituaries and more. Petersfield GU32 2DG what the school is and continues to make it what left before 2000), we will be requiring all sixth This year’s Newsletter has once Leana Seriau it is. I have, no doubt, already spent too much formers to do a suitably broad and characteristically again been designed by the wonderful of my life in and around schools and I know that Bedalian set of enrichment courses; these will Lucy Holmes (OB 1980–87) of Holmes most school grounds, even plush ones, are too benefit from our successful experience with the Wood and her ever helpful colleague CONTACT Dennis Archer often utilitarian places which reflect the military- BACs and will both prepare our sixth formers Ian Moore. I would like to thank THE ALUMNI Alumni Officer corporate roots of the schools; whereas ours well for university choices and make them better both of them for all their hard work. E: [email protected] mirrors the strivings, thoughts and quirks of equipped to tackle life thereafter. Thinking of taking Lucy has very kindly waived her fee LIAISON TEAM T: 0170 0 811611 generations of staff and students. It is a lived a new language at university? Try Beginner’s Russian. for us, and we are very grateful for in landscape. Artsy and ignorant about scientific development? her generosity. Leana Seriau Philip Parsons Consciousness of our different ways of doing Try the History and Philosophy of Science. Fancy This Newsletter features a Alumni Liaison Manager Alumni Officer things is acute when we are about to be inspected, not being feebly in thrall to Ikea? Sign up for that round-up of OB events which took E: [email protected] E: [email protected] so, although I am by nature not a nervy bloke, I did Oak-frame building course. place in 2014, important dates for T: 01730 711 572 T: 01730 711 631 have the odd moment when I knew that inspectors It is very much in this spirit that we have 2015, feature articles from OBs from the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate were revised our Block 3 curriculum to ensure that this 2 Welcome Head’s Reflections 3 HEAD’S REFLECTIONS ON 2014 formative initial year at Bedales establishes the right habits, especially those of inquisitiveness, PROFESSIONAL independent thinking, reading, learning through GUIDANCE doing, teamwork and willingness to make links across the curriculum. In this regard the mentoring Since the creation of the Bedales Professional roles, both of the tutor and of at least two 6.2s Guidance department last year, we have been allocated to each group (of 10 or so Block 3s) busy linking OBs who are already established in is central: so are born the Badley tutor and the their careers with current students and recent Badley senior. Winter vegetables have been leavers, to assist them with advice and support. planted in polytunnels and some very fine piglets We would like to thank all the OBs who kindly are being tended – one per group. They will merit signed up to the initiative and to those who have some undivided but unglamorous early morning already donated their precious time – it is much attention and will play a leading role in the end of appreciated. If you have not been contacted year feast that each tutor group will produce in the yet it is not because you have been forgotten.