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Boarding & Day

Bedales is a boarding school. Day students are completely integrated – to the extent that they usually follow the same full, intense school day that may run from 8.30am to 9.30pm. Boarders can opt to go home between Saturday lunchtime and Sunday evening (many do, others don't), and there are times when attendance at the weekend is required – for drama or music rehearsals, for instance, or during the Whole-school Effort (the annual weekend of work on the estate).

Why board?

Because relationships intensify when people work and live so closely together – and relationships are key to the Bedales approach and ethos. Because there is so much to do, so much to try, that a shorter working day could not fit in; students focus better when they are not split between home and school. And this is where many of their friends are.

Weekend activities are arranged for boarders, although as often as not they will choose just to relax (or sleep) by way of contrast with the busy week – exactly as they would at home.

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