Bredon School

Bredon School is a fairly small, independent school, set in 84 acres of grounds on the borders of rural Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, UK. It caters for boys and girls of all abilities either as day pupils from age 7 to 18, or for flexi, weekly or full-time boarders aged 7 to 18. It has a pupil/teacher ratio of 7:1 and its key strengths are its breadth of curriculum covering academic and vocational subjects, alongside its wide range of extra-curricular opportunities.

Bredon School opened in September 1962, with its main focus on providing a public school education for boys who had failed the Common Entrance Examination. It was established by Lt-Col Tony Sharp and Hugh Jarrett, who was Headmaster of Cotsbrook Hall, its feeder preparatory school based in Shropshire. The School started with 17 boys aged 13-18, all full-boarders, and mostly from Forces’ families. In 1982 the School extended its admissions to boys aged 11 and in 1989 it extended admissions further to seven-year-olds, whilst becoming co-educational at the same time. In September 2011 the School established a Reception and Years 1/2 class. One of the School’s earliest and most influential teachers - and ultimately Headmaster - was Brian Llewellyn Thomas. He was innovative in his approach to education, pioneering the concept of Learning Difficulties and paying particular attention to Dyslexia. Thomas recognised that this under-diagnosed condition was a serious impediment to many pupils’ learning. He worked closely with Aston University researchers using Bredon pupils as “guinea pigs” in establishing the Aston Index. For many years this was a key tool in the diagnosis of dyslexia. In 2002 the school passed from the ownership of the Sharp and Thomas families to David Keyte, who as Bursar and Managing Director, had steered the School through the late 1990s and early 2000s. He then became Principal. In January 2009, Bredon School announced that it had become part of the Spanish-British education group, Colegios Laude. Keyte retired as Principal in July 2010. His replacement, Headmaster John Hewitt, took up his post in September 2010.

Headmaster The current headmaster of Bredon School is David Ward. The School became part of the Cavendish Education group in December 2014, which has a number of other specialist day and boarding schools in the UK.

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