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EDUCATION IN REACH YOUR GUIDE TO THE BEST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES IN LONDON WELCOME Nurseries, schools and universities are not in short supply in Chelsea and Fulham. With London being recognised as a leading global centre for higher education, St George developments in West London have easy access to the local area’s best schools and the City’s many prestigious universities, providing a sound investment for children and the future. At primary level, schools like Thomas’s Battersea and Kensington Prep School offer children a well-rounded education with Ofsted ratings of outstanding and excellent. Thomas’s Battersea’s most recent claim to fame is the arrival of Prince George as a student and with exceptional teaching staff and extensive facilities Thomas’s has very quickly become a popular school for boys and girls aged between 4-13. Children tend to THE BEST go on to equally prestigious schools like Eton, Harrow and Westminster. EDUCATION The range of local secondary schools is also impressive. There’s Godolphin LONDON HAS & Latymer – a school praised as much for the niceness of their pupils as for their academic ability. St. Paul’s Girls’ TO OFFER School, meanwhile, is renowned for its musical department and academically, children perform highly with, on average, half the class feeding into Oxford and Cambridge and some of London’s world renowned universities such as King’s College and London School of Economics. Chelsea Creek is not only a stunning place to live, but offers a complete lifestyle and a way into some of the best education London has to offer 1 CONTENTS 01 | Page 06 PRIMARY SCHOOLS 02 | Page 10 SECONDARY SCHOOLS 03 | Page 14 UNIVERSITIES 2 3 EDUCATION IN REACH From Chelsea Creek you have easy access to the local Warwick Avenue SHOREDITCH areas best schools and ondons finest universities REGENT’S PARK 2 CLERKENWELL North Acton Royal Oak Marylebone Westbourne Park Barbican PADDINGTON MARYLEBONE FITZROVIA Ladbrook Grove Acton Paddington 4 Main Line East Acton Tottenham Oxford Circus Court Road Bank WHITE CITY SOHO Bond Street 5 NOTTING HILL Marble Arch CITY OF White City Lancaster Gate LONDON Serpentine Leicester Square Notting Sackler Gallery MAYFAIR Piccadilly Circus Hill Gate HYDE PARK Westfield Holland Park TO UNIVERSITY Green Park 1 Kensington OF WEST LONDON Serpentine GREEN PARK London Bridge Palace Gallery Shepherd’s Bush Southwark HOLLAND ST JAMES’S Westminster SOUTHWARK PARK PARK SHEPHERD’S BUSH 6 Waterloo Royal 3 Borough Albert High Street Buckingham Palace Kensington Hall Design Museum Knightsbridge RAVENSCOURT 5 WESTMINSTER PARK 4 Kensington KENSINGTON (Olympia) V&A KNIGHTSBRIDGE 3 Victoria Turnham Green Natural History Elephant & Castle Science Museum Stamford Brook Ravenscourt Park Hammersmith 4 Barons South Kensington Earl’s Court HAMMERSMITH Court Sloane Square 1 West Kensington PIMLICO Tate Britain PRIMARY SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS Hammersmith West Bridge Pimlico CHISWICK 8 Brompton 1 1 Saatchi Gallery Kennington Riverside Nursery St Paul’s School KING’S ROAD 7 CHELSEA 2 Vauxhall 2 Thomas’s Fulham Lady Margaret School 2 6 Chelsea 3 3 Football WestminsterThe Oval Cathedral Emanuel School Club Battersea Power Choir School 4 Station St Paul’s Girls’ School 4 Oval Chiswick NINE Eaton Square School 5 WWT London BATTERSEA The Godolphin Park 9 5 Wetland Centre 10 PARK ELMS FULHAM Fulham Thomas’s Battersea & Latymer School Broadway Fulham 6 6 BARNES KING’S ROAD Imperial The London Oratory Harris Westminster Football Club 2 Wharf 5 7 Battersea Park School 7 Parsons The London Oratory BARNES Green Queenstown Road 7 COMMON CHELSEA CREEK L’École de Battersea School 8 Barnes Bridge Fulham Prep School UNIVERSITIES Fulham Palace 9 Newton Preparatory 1 Battersea Park University of West 2 School Putney London Mortlake Bridge 10 The Hurlingham 1 Kensington Prep School 2 Barnes CLAPHAM Club BATTERSEA University College PUTNEY London 3 Clapham Junction Imperial College London Brixton 4 Clapham Common LSE Battersea Park 5 CLAPHAM King’s College London 3 COMMON 4 5 PREP & PRIMARY RIVERSIDE NURSERY How it performs of SW6, proud of its close-knit, magic club to newspaper club — An ‘Outstanding’ grade from community feel. as well as a thriving sporting scene. 1 Battersea Reach, Ensign OFSTED, glowing feedback While it is mostly a day school, the What to expect House, Juniper Drive, from parents and hearty choristers can board, but places Wandsworth SW18 1TA recommendations from teachers at There is a sport to entice every are competitive — just six a year. the primary schools that Riverside budding Olympian from gymnastics – Boys and girls How it performs feeds, all point to a high performing and swimming to hockey. There’s Ages: 3 months - 5 years – nursery that helps shape plenty for arty children too with music Unsurprisingly, pupils regularly – Term fees: Disclosed upon well rounded little individuals and drama high on the agenda — win music scholarships to leading application and part of the standard curriculum. schools like Eton and Westminster. – Ofsted rating (2016): Outstanding Regular trips away (both locally and In general, the school has a THOMAS’S FULHAM arther afield help to oster a spirit reputation for feeding into top Overview of adventure. secondary schools in London 7 Riverside is a private nursery school Hugon Road, SW6 3ES and around the country that aims to empower the children How it performs – Boys and girls in its care to make their own choices The teachers here present the Ages: 4 - 13 about how to learn and to pursue – curriculum in an exciting and EATON SQUARE – Term fees: £6,357 innovative way — challenging their natural curiosity. SCHOOL Thomas’s Battersea – Registration: 1st September three children on a daily basis. The 9 What to expect years before entry, when children majority of pupils go on to attend 79 Eccleston Square, The learning rooms and baby suites are aged between one and two top senior schools in London London SW1 V1PP are as stimulating and well-designed years old – Boys and girls THOMAS’S BATTERSEA as you’d expect for a nursery that – Ofsted rating (2018): Outstanding Ages: 4 - 13 6 follows a Montessori ethos. Right WESTMINSTER – 28 - 40 Battersea High Street, What to expect Overview – Term fees: £7,300 SW11 3JB down to the bookshelves built at kids’ CATHEDRAL CHOIR With Prince George becoming height! A calendar of events taking in As part of the Thomas’s family, – Registration: Occurs at any – Boys and girls a pupil, there is an even greater everything from Easter Egg hunts in Thomas’s Fulham upholds the SCHOOL stage prior to the assessment – Ages: 4 - 13 frisson of parental expectation the large garden to animal visits from same ethos of jolly friendliness 8 procedures taking place at the Ambrosden Avenue, surrounding the Thomas’s name a local petting zoo make Riverside and anti-clique kindness. It’s a age of three years, the year prior – Term Fees £6,629 st – and the school is proving more SW1P 1QH to entry – Registration: 1 September an exciting place for young ones. pretty, red-brick school in the heart popular than ever. – Boys – ISI report (2016): Excellent three years before entry, when children are aged between one – Ages: 4 - 13 A recent facelift — to the tune Overview and two years old of £7m — has spruced up the – Term fees: £6,194; boarding (choristers only) £3,249 Headmaster Sebastian Hepher has – Ofsted rating (2018): Outstanding school’s classrooms and bestowed been at the helm since 2010 and a new dining room and outdoor – Registration: Boys may be Overview learning area. There is an astro-turf registered at any time from birth. has overseen a steady improvement on site and for all other sporting The registration fee is £200 in — the already outstanding — This day school welcoming boys academics. Small class sizes give and girls ticks all the academic requirements, the school has – arents accepting a fir oer the school an intimate, friendly feel boxes without being overly formal access to nearby Battersea Park will be asked for a deposit of and allow for bundles of one-on-one or overbearing. Children are given and its excellent sports venues, £2,000, refundable on their son’s time with each student. the space to find hat they enoy Wandle Recreation Centre, departure from the School and the resources to pursue it. Latchmere Leisure Centre and – ISI report (2015): Excellent What to expect The Queen Mother’s Sports Centre. Founded by David and Joanna The school regularly makes a Overview Thomas, the Thomas’s day schools splash in swimming competitions in Clapham, Fulham, Kensington How it performs As the name would suggest, this (they’ve been national champions) and Battersea have, in their ere children are given not ust school is big on music. The choir as well as excelling in drama and relatively short history, garnered the tools to succeed in exams, is exceptional and orchestral the arts. The school exudes a sense accolades galore. The children do but a curiosity for life-long instruments are taught weekly. of quintessential British charm. The inherent discipline present in exceptionally well in their studies, learning. Thomas’s Battersea feeds some of the most music practice seeps into every How it performs the extra-curricular offering is second to none but really it is the prestigious schools in the other academic pursuit, too. These are academic whizzes (with schools’ underpinning philosophy country including Harrow, Eton, Mandarin on the syllabus, no less) of ‘be kind’ which sets them Marlborough, City of London, What to expect who go on to bag scholarships and apart. Empathy and compassion Radley, King’s College School, The choir may be this school’s ace entrance exams. Students are are cultivated ust as rigorously and Westminster calling card, but that doesn’t mean also shoe-ins to the shiny new Eaton as ambition.