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Supporting Individual Needs

We assign every student to a tutor, who will monitor and guide their academic progress, tailoring the level of support to the individual. This is one of the ways in which we nurture independent study habits and independence of mind, and help students to set realistic ambitions and to manage their time efficiently.

Tutor-groups at Bedales are mixed-age, which encourages the sharing of experience across the years, and they meet regularly – although tutors might see a student several times in a day when extra support is needed.

The system depends on trust and good communication between tutor, student and parents. New tutors introduce themselves to parents during the first ten days of term and will keep in touch as necessary after that. We do not ring or email you over every little issue that can be dealt with routinely: you entrust your child to our professional experience and judgement, and we will take a view on what is best in each case.

Tutoring arrangements for Year 9 (Block 3) differ for the first term and a half, when each student's housemaster or housemistress is also his or her tutor. This gives students a focus at the start of their time at Bedales, and it enables the house staff to get to know their individual students very well both academically and socially. At the February half term of first year we allocate each student to a tutor. Students remain with that tutor until the end of Block 5 and have a new tutor in the Sixth Form.

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