Thomas’s London Day Schools have revamped their website, now offering parents far greater detail on the schools, their curricula and individual leavers’ destinations. This is particularly helpful as they hadn’t provided numbers in the past. It’s very interesting to look at the details between their different locations. Some schools seem to send more leavers to [...]
Many girls’ schools have published their 2013 exit results now. Kensington Prep girls have really crushed it this year with 9 offers from St Paul’s Girls’ School and 6 from City of London School. Pembridge Hall is also very impressive with 10 offers from Latymer Upper, 4 from St Paul’s, 9 from City of London School [...]
St John’s Wood Pre-Prep has just published their impressive 7+ leavers list. Pupils got offers from all the top schools, including the top girls’ prep school Bute House in Hammersmith, St Paul’s feeder Colet Court and Westminster Under School. They’re not featured on London Pre-Prep yet but looking at the results I think they need [...]
Spring time is just not happening, and in this cold you can’t spend a lot of time on playgrounds and in parks, so I wanted to share with you all the fun things you can do with your toddler at home and out and about in London during miserable weather! Out and about: Museums: my [...]
I receive a lot of emails from parents around the world relocating to London. Just in the last week, I have received emails from mums and dads in New York, Dubai, Portugal and Mumbai! The problems faced by internationals moving to London with children tend to be very similar – what year group will their [...]
Happy New Year everyone! As a first post of the year 2013, I would like to share the following poem “On Children” by Kahlil Gibran with you. I have found it recently as an opener to the highly recommended parenting book “The Nurture Assumption” by Judith Harris. Keep the poem in mind when dreaming of [...]
When my daughter was barely two months old, my mother gave her a lovely book as a gift – the board book Monkey Puzzle by Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson – and asked me if I had started reading books with the baby yet. I was slightly surprised – isn’t it too early, I asked her? She’s [...]
The Department of Education published the new SATS results for 2012 last week and we can finally update the list of top performing state primary schools in London this year. This list is based on the average point score per pupil reached in each school. Keep in mind that schools with the highest average point [...]
If your little one is reaching preschool age, it is the perfect time to keep fostering the love of books and reading, which will make everything easier – from bedtime battles to 4+ assessments . Many of the following the books are all-time classics that children can enjoy from the age of 3 till much [...]
There’s nothing better you can do for your child’s early education than reading books together. The beautiful thing is that cuddling up reading books gives your child emotional grounding while also building up vocabulary, grammar and imagination. It is easy to look for educational ipad applications or Baby Einstein DVDs (whose educational effect is completely [...]
