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A Fine Start A FINE START YOUR GUIDE TO THE BEST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES IN LONDON THE BEST EDUCATION LONDON HAS TO OFFER 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 go on to equally prestigious schools like Eton, Harrow and Westminster. The range of local secondary schools is also impressive. There’s Godolphin & Latymer – a school praised as much for the niceness of their pupils as for their academic ability. St. Paul’s Girls’ 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 PREP & Primary Schools PAGE 06 Secondary Schools PAGE 10 Universities PAGE 14 2 3 OUTSTANDING EDUCATION SHOREDITCH REGENT’S From Chelsea Creek you have PARK CLERKENWELL 03 easy access to the local area’s best schools and London’s finest universities PADDINGTON FITZROVIA 05 CITY OF WHITE CITY NOTTING HILL SOHO LONDON 01 MAYFAIR HYDE PARK 02 To University of West London GREEN ST JAMES’S HOLLAND PARK SOUTHWARK PARK PARK SHEPHERD’S BUSH 06 04 WESTMINSTER KENSINGTON RAVENSCOURT KNIGHTSBRIDGE 05 PARK 04 04 03 HAMMERSMITH PIMLICO CHISWICK 01 08 CHELSEA 07 PREP & PRIMARY SECONDARY SCHOOLS 06 SCHOOLS 01 St Paul’s School 01 Riverside Nursery BATTERSEA NINE 02 Lady Margaret School PARK ELMS 02 Thomas’s Fulham FULHAM 03 09 Emanuel School BARNES 10 03 Eaton Square School 04 St Paul’s Girls’ School 04 Westminster Cathedral 02 05 05 The Godolphin & Latymer School BARNES 07 Choir School COMMON 06 Harris Westminster 05 Thomas’s Battersea 07 The London Oratory School 06 The London Oratory School 07 L’École de Battersea UNIVERSITIES 02 08 Fulham Prep School CLAPHAM 01 King’s College London PUTNEY BATTERSEA 09 01 Newton Preparatory School 02 University of West London 10 Kensington Prep School 03 University College London 04 Imperial College London CLAPHAM COMMON 05 LSE 03 4 5 PREP & PRIMARY RIVERSIDE NURSERY THOMAS’S FULHAM EATON SQUARE SCHOOL WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL 01 Battersea Reach, Ensign House, 02 03 79 Eccleston Square, Hugon Road, SW6 3ES Juniper Drive, Wandsworth London SW1V 1PP 04 Ambrosden Avenue, SW1P 1QH – Boys and girls SW18 1TA – Ages: 4 ‑ 13 – Boys and girls – Boys – Boys and girls – Term fees: £7,300 – Ages: 4 ‑ 13 – Ages: 4 ‑ 13 – Ages: 3 months - 5 years – Registration: 1st September three years before – Term fees: £8,000 – Term fees: £5,600; boarding (choristers only) – Term fees: Disclosed upon application entry, when children are aged between one – Registration: Occurs at any stage prior to the £3,362 – Ofsted rating (2016): Outstanding and two years old assessment procedures taking place at the – Registration: Boys may be registered at any – Ofsted rating (2018): Outstanding age of three years, the year prior to entry time from birth. The registration fee is £200 OVERVIEW – ISI report (2018): Good – Parents accepting a firm offer will be asked for OVERVIEW a deposit of £2,000, refundable on their son’s Riverside is a private nursery school that aims OVERVIEW departure from the School to empower the children in its care to make their As part of the Thomas’s family, Thomas’s Fulham – ISI report (2018): Excellent own choices about how to learn and to pursue upholds the same ethos of jolly friendliness Headmaster Sebastian Hepher has been at the their natural curiosity. and anti‑clique kindness. It’s a pretty, red‑brick helm since 2010 and has overseen a steady OVERVIEW school in the heart of SW6, proud of its close‑knit, improvement in — the already outstanding — WHAT TO EXPECT community feel. academics. Small class sizes give the school an As the name would suggest, this school is big on intimate, friendly feel and allow for bundles of music. The choir is exceptional and orchestral The learning rooms and baby suites are as WHAT TO EXPECT one‑on‑one time with each student. instruments are taught weekly. The inherent stimulating and well‑designed as you’d expect for discipline present in music practice seeps into a nursery that follows a Montessori ethos. Right There is a sport to entice every budding Olympian WHAT TO EXPECT every other academic pursuit, too. down to the bookshelves built at kids’ height! from gymnastics and swimming to hockey. There’s A calendar of events taking in everything from plenty for arty children too with music and drama The school regularly makes a splash in swimming WHAT TO EXPECT Easter Egg hunts in the large garden to animal high on the agenda — and part of the standard competitions (they’ve been national champions) as visits from a local petting zoo make Riverside curriculum. Regular trips away (both locally and well as excelling in drama and the arts. The school The choir may be this school’s calling card, but Thomas’s Battersea an exciting place for young ones. farther afield) help to foster a spirit of adventure. exudes a sense of quintessential British charm. that doesn’t mean it is weak in other areas. Not in the slightest. There is a vibrant array of HOW IT PERFORMS HOW IT PERFORMS HOW IT PERFORMS extra‑curricular activities — from magic club to newspaper club — as well as a thriving sporting An ‘Outstanding’ grade from OFSTED, The teachers here present the curriculum in These are academic whizzes (with Mandarin scene. While it is mostly a day school, the WHAT TO EXPECT glowing feedback from parents and hearty an exciting and innovative way — challenging on the syllabus, no less) who go on to bag choristers can board, but places are competitive THOMAS’S BATTERSEA recommendations from teachers at the primary scholarships and ace entrance exams. Students children on a daily basis. The majority of pupils — just six a year. 05 With Prince George becoming a pupil, there is schools that Riverside feeds, all point to a go on to attend top senior schools in London. are also shoe‑ins to the shiny new Eaton Square 28 – 40 Battersea High Street, high performing nursery that helps shape Upper in Mayfair. HOW IT PERFORMS SW11 3JB an even greater frisson of parental expectation well rounded little individuals. surrounding the Thomas’s name – and the school – Boys and girls is proving more popular than ever. Unsurprisingly, pupils regularly win music – Ages: 4 ‑ 13 scholarships to leading schools like Eton and A recent facelift — to the tune of £7m — has – Term fees: £7,500 Westminster. In general, the school has a spruced up the school’s classrooms and bestowed – Registration: 1st September three years before reputation for feeding into top secondary schools a new dining room and outdoor learning area. There entry, when children are aged between one in London and around the country. is an astro‑turf on site and for all other sporting and two years old requirements, the school has access to nearby – Ofsted rating (2018): Outstanding Battersea Park and its excellent sports venues, Wandle Recreation Centre, Latchmere Leisure OVERVIEW Centre and The Queen Mother’s Sports Centre. This day school welcoming boys and girls ticks all HOW IT PERFORMS the academic boxes without being overly formal or overbearing. Children are given the space to find Here children are given not just the tools to what they enjoy and the resources to pursue it. succeed in exams, but a curiosity for life‑long Founded by David and Joanna Thomas, the learning. Thomas’s Battersea feeds some of the Thomas’s day schools in Clapham, Fulham, most prestigious schools in the country including Kensington and Battersea have, in their relatively Harrow, Eton, Marlborough, City of London, Radley, short history, garnered accolades galore. The King’s College School, and Westminster. children do exceptionally well in their studies, the extra‑curricular offering is second to none but really it is the schools’ underpinning philosophy of ‘be kind’ which sets them apart. Empathy and compassion are cultivated just as rigorously The Godolphin & Latymer School as ambition. 6 7 FULHAM PREP SCHOOL NEWTON PREP SCHOOL KENSINGTON PREP SCHOOL 08 09 10 200 Greyhound Road, W14 9SD 149 Battersea Park Road, SW8 4BX 596 Fulham Road, SW6 5PA – Boys and girls – Boys and girls – Girls – Ages: 4 ‑ 13 – Ages: 3 ‑ 13 – Ages: 4 ‑ 11 – Term fees: £7,100 – Term fees: £8,200 – Term fees: £5,900 – Ofsted rating (March 2020): Good – ISI report (2018): Good – ISI report (2015): Excellent OVERVIEW OVERVIEW OVERVIEW Fulham Prep may be set in a traditional‑looking Located in the heart of the community of Kensington Prep School is part of the Girls’ Victorian school building, but the atmosphere of Battersea, Newton Prep School is a long way from Day School Trust family, but certainly has the the place is relaxed and friendly – even slightly the stereotype of the traditional London prep feel of a school that is carving its own path.
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