Bedales - Head of Estates & Facilities

Bedales - Head of Estates & Facilities

Head of Estates and Facilities Candidate Information Pack

Contents

Page 4 The Estate

Page 5 Buildings

Page 5 Job Profile

Page 3 Welcome

Page 5 Person Specification

Page 5 Application Process

WELCOME TO BEDALES SCHOOL Bedales was founded by John Haden Badley in 1893 to be a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes typical of late-Victorian public schools. The school became fully co-educational in 1898; students were given a formal voice by 1916, when the School Council was formed. Located in 120 acres of farmland, woods, orchards and playing fields, students still follow John Badley’s ideal of educating ‘head, hand and heart’. The Memorial Library and adjoining Lupton Hall (the original assembly hall) are Grade-1 listed arts and crafts buildings. The Bedales Theatre (1998) and Orchard Building (2005) have both won awards for the quality and originality of their architecture. We opened a new and award-winning Art & Design building in 2016 to create an artistic heart of the school adjacent to Outdoor Work where creativity, ingenuity and intelligence can flower. A focus on the development of intelligence, initiative and individuality remains strong to this day, with students studying a broad curriculum across the schools.

Bedales was founded by John Haden Badley in 1893 to be a humane alternative to

the authoritarian regimes typical of late-Victorian public schools.

ABOUT THE ESTATE

JH Badley, founder of Bedales, moved the school to rural Hampshire in 1900 because the lease on the original school house was expiring so that students could continue to benefit from clean air and a close connection to the landscape.

The 120-acre estate includes playing fields, orchards, woodland, pasture and a nature reserve; the countryside comes right to the heart of the schools.

An eclectic mix of buildings adds to the charm of the setting; they range from the modern, custom-designed classrooms at Dunhurst and Dunannie through to the grade-1 listed Lupton Hall and Memorial Library at Bedales (designed by Ernest Gimson and completed in 1921), and two, contemporary, award-winning buildings - Olivier Theatre (1997) and the Orchard Building (2005). Bedales’ stunning new Art & Design Building was completed in 2016 (view photos and film). The three schools share the following facilities: • Full-size, floodlit Astroturf (twelve tennis courts in the summer term) • Sports hall with the floor space to take eight badminton courts and equipped with indoor cricket nets • Superb modern indoor swimming pool • Two gymnasiums • Multi-gym • Six hard floodlit netball/tennis courts • Numerous grass pitches (17 acres of playing fields), incorporating cricket and football pitches. • The Sam Banks Pavilion - a timber framed barn completed in 2013, and constructed by members of the Bedales community • Bedales has exceptional IT facilities with wireless coverage across the campus and students can have their own laptops configured for use with the school system The stunning Bedales estate has evolved over the last century with an eclectic mix of beautiful and architecturally significant buildings. While they do not define the school, as our community does, buildings certainly contribute an immeasurable amount to life at Bedales. Many of the school’s developments have been funded by generous donations made by people whose lives have been touched by the school, for example, the Art & Design Building and the Sam Banks Pavilion.

BUILDINGS AT BEDALES

1893-1900 The School’s Foundation In 1900, the school moved its possessions by horse-drawn wagons and by train from their rented house, called ‘Bedales’ in Lindfield, near Haywards Heath to their new home. The school’s founder, John Haden Badley, had raised money through a sale of a property and through the generosity of his sisters to fund the purchase of Steephurst Farm near Petersfield. These 150 acres of sandy soil, oak and pine woods lay around a redbrick house, Steephurst and nearby lay a scattering of farm buildings and cottages. Funded again by his long suffering and munificent sisters - what an expensive baby brother to have - Badley set about erecting the New Buildings complete with servants hall to designs by E P Warren, who had recently been working for the author Henry James in Rye; it was built in the Jacobethan style and had a soaring oversize oriel window 40 feet high.

1921 Memorial Library The Great War killed young Bedalians in a way that shocked the school to the core. Boys who had been playing cricket in June were dead in November in the mud of Flanders. Badley wanted to commemorate these students but felt a library a more fitting memorial than the more predictable chapel. He commissioned Ernest Gimson to build in the style he had initiated in the New Hall, later the Lupton Hall, next door. The boldly engineered green oak frame twisting and cracking as it dried was sawn in a pit on site and it is one of the most remarkable libraries in Britain, rightly listed as Grade 1. The original estimates for its cost were to be £7,000, but this escalated to an alarming £13,800. It was funded charitably. Badley wrote in an early appeal, “A subscription list will be opened and a treasurer appointed, so that all who wish may help in this memorial to those whom we have lost, in whose honour nothing could be more fitting.”

1981 Sotherington Barn The Earl of Selborne offered the school an eighteenth century timber framed barn no longer suitable for modern agriculture. Under the inspirational leadership of the visionary Head of Outdoor Work, John Rogers, a team of students supervised by master builder Charlie Brentnall dismantled the building and re-erected the barn in the field behind the estate yard, the first of several such projects. This was funded entirely by donations and cost £30,000. Removing eight tonnes of old thatch and numbering every one of the 300 pieces of timber occupied 154 students, 15 Old Bedalians and 21 members of staff.

BUILDINGS AT BEDALES

1996 Bedales Theatre Designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (who also designed the new Art & Design building) the Theatre was opened in 1996 and immediately won a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award. An early example of combined modern technologies and oak framing this most exciting of spaces is used for plays, lectures, meetings, concerts and rock shows. A charitable appeal funded £800k towards the overall cost of £1.5m and students took part in the construction of the magnificent timber framed construction.

1994 Boys’ Flat Changes in boarding, the provision of a separate 6.2 house and the growing number of students in the school in general led to Boys’ Flat moving to new accommodation. The large free form block with Arts and Crafts parentage, if not actual construction, was designed by RIBA Gold medallist and Hampshire County Architect Sir Colin Stansfield Smith. There are 30 dorms which range in size from 2-6 bedded rooms and many communal spaces such as common/ games rooms and a kitchen. Boys’ Flat is built around a large courtyard and garden which is a quiet area to relax after the school day and where barbecues are regularly held.

2006 Orchard Building The Orchard Building housing teaching and administration was opened in 2006. The architects, Walters & Cohen looked to the rich history of Arts and Crafts buildings and rural landscape of Bedales. This large range of three storey buildings defines the North side of the Orchard, the summer social centre of the school. They were returning to an unrealised plan of Gimson’s 1921 scheme for a rural Oxbridge quad. Its use of handmade brick, timber and larch cladding puts it well within the Arts and Crafts language of the school while remaining rigorously in its period. The £7.5m cost was financed predominately through a bank loan.

BUILDINGS AT BEDALES

2013 Sam Banks Pavilion A cricket pavilion, dedicated to the memory of Old Bedalian Sam Banks, is the latest timber framed building on the estate, designed and built by OBs. English Oak was used in the muscular trusses; they were cut and jointed by current students under the supervision of experienced oak framers, Gabriel Langlands and John and Henry Russell. The building, with a wrap around veranda, is roofed in cedar shingles fitted by students and staff, including Graham and Louise Banks. The unplaned fir boards that clad the structure and the oak floorboards complete a powerful and robust structure. The cost of £140,000 was funded through a combination of a parent and student fundraising drive, led by the Bedales, Dunhurst and Dunannie Parents’ Associations, a legacy generously left to the school and the school’s own resources.

MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Staff, Teamwork & Motivation

JOB PROFILE

Estates and Facilities is a multi-disciplinary department providing a comprehensive estate planning and management service, and a range of facilities support services, in order to ensure that the School’s land and property assets are capable of supporting academic and other business of the School safely, effectively and efficiently. The Head of Estates and Facilities is responsible to the Bursar for the management and leadership of the department under tight budgetary control and whilst ensuring compliance with legislation and regulations to ensure the safety of staff, students and visitors at the School. The post requires strategic vision, management expertise and practical experience to lead and manage maintaining and enhancing the School estate and in providing a wide range of services across the three Bedales Schools.

• Ensure the provision or strategic leadership for, and the effective management of the department through ensuring all the teams within Estates interact appropriately and work collaboratively towards the common goals of the school • Undertake the line management of the Estates and Facilities Core Management Team of senior staff – as displayed in the organisation chart - who are responsible for staff within their specialist functions. Take responsibility for the division of duties within the management team, allocating tasks and projects and providing for training and professional development. • Provide leadership and act as a role model and exemplar to all staff within the department, working with the relevant managers to ensure that the necessary skills and competency levels are in place, developed or acquired within each team and that a strong service ethos is instilled and maintained • Keep the departmental skill mix under review to ensure the department is able to operate effectively in all aspects of its estate and facilities management activities and procure in-house or contracted resources as necessary • Review and monitor the working practices of the departments to ensure the timely delivery of the highest standards of workmanship and customer service • Ensure that the School’s obligations with regard to Health & Safety at Work are met through staff training and development • Provide strategic leadership and direct management control of large teams of staff involved in a broad range of key functions including the management and co-ordination of major strategic capital projects, the programme of reactive and long term maintenance programmes, all elements of the operations and services infrastructure of the management and analysis of space utilisation, the maintenance and upgrading of key >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16

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