Speakers

Will Goldsmith has an MA (Hons) in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He initially joined the school as Deputy Head (Academic) and became permanent Head of Bedales in February 2022. He was previously Director of Teaching and Learning and Head of English at Latymer Upper in West London, having taught in state and independent schools prior to that. He says education is "about empowering young people to engage with learning on a profound level that they sustain their whole life".

He is passionate about education reform, working both at Bedales and in the wider education community to make the system better for all young people. He is a governor at the Dragon School in Oxford as well as an associate governor at Park Community School in Havant. He enjoys singing, having spent much of his life in a variety of chamber choirs; he was brought up as the child of expatriate parents in Africa, the Middle and Far East; and he speaks fluent French having lived in Paris for five years after graduating.

On Bedales, Will says "the willingness to challenge the orthodoxies of education (without being contrarian), combined with a profoundly communitarian approach and an understanding of the importance of the natural world make it very special indeed".