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 Wa Aee SHOREDITCH areas best schools and London’s finest universities REGENT’S PARK 2 CLERKENWELL N A Ra Oa Maee Wee Pa Baa PADDINGTON MARYLEBONE FITZROVIA La Ge A Pag 4 Ma Le Ea A Tea O C C Ra Ba WHITE CITY SOHO B See 5 NOTTING HILL Mae A CITY OF We C Laae Gae LONDON Seee Leee Sae Ng Sae Gae MAYFAIR Pa C H Gae HYDE PARK Wee Ha Pa TO UNIVERSITY Gee Pa 1 Keg OF WEST LONDON Seee GREEN PARK L Bge Paae Gae See’ B Sa HOLLAND ST JAMES’S Wee SOUTHWARK PARK PARK SHEPHERD’S BUSH 6 Wae Ra 3 Bg Ae Hg See Bga Paae Keg Ha Deg Me Kgge RAVENSCOURT 5 WESTMINSTER PARK 4 Keg KENSINGTON (Oa) V&A KNIGHTSBRIDGE 3 Va Ta Gee Naa H Eea & Cae See Me Sa B Rae Pa Hae 4 Ba S Keg Ea’ C HAMMERSMITH C Sae Sae 1 We Keg PIMLICO Tae Ba PRIMARY SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS Hae We Bge P CHISWICK 8 B 1 1 Saa Gae Riverside Nursery Keg St Paul’s School KING’S ROAD 7 CHELSEA 2 Vaa 2 Thomas’s Fulham Lady Margaret School 2 6 Ceea 3 3 Fa WestminsterTe Oa Cathedral Emanuel School C Baeea Pe Choir School 4 Sa St Paul’s Girls’ School 4 Oa C Eaton Square School 5 WWT L BATTERSEA NINE The Godolphin Pa 9 5 Wea Cee 10 PARK ELMS FULHAM Fa Thomas’s Battersea & Latymer School Baa Fa 6 6 BARNES KING’S ROAD Iea The London Oratory Harris Westminster Fa C 2 Wa 5 7 Baeea Pa School 7 Pa The London Oratory BARNES Gee Qee Ra 7 COMMON CHELSEA CREEK L’École de Battersea School 8 Bae Bge Fulham Prep School UNIVERSITIES Fa Paae 9 Newton Preparatory 1 Baeea Pa University of West 2 School Pe London Mae Bge 10 Te Hga 1 Kensington Prep School 2 Bae CLAPHAM C BATTERSEA University College PUTNEY London 3 Caa J Imperial College London B 4 Caa C LSE Baeea Pa 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 farther afield) help to foster 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 – Parents accepting a firm offer 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 what they enjoy 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 Here children are given not just 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 just as rigorously and Westminster calling card, but that doesn’t mean also shoe‑ins to the shiny new Eaton as ambition.