2023

École Jeannine Manuel has grown significantly since opening in 2015, now welcoming 600 students representing 40 nationalities across 3 sites in Bloomsbury, all less than a 5 minutes walk away from the British Museum. Their first cohort of graduates left in 2021 and the second class of 2022 again achieved outstanding exam results and university placements: 88%

Most pre-prep schools have released their 7+/8+ by now, which hasn’t always been the case in the past few years. Below we share results for those pre-prep schools that publish them on an annual basis: Chiswick and Bedford Park Prep 7+Latymer Prep 5 offers (4 accepted)Bute House 1 offer (1 accepted)St Paul’s Junior School 1

Alexandra Haydon has been appointed to succeed Lucy Elphinstone as the next Head of Francis Holland School, Sloane Square in January 2024.  Alexandra is currently Deputy Head, Academic at Millfield, Europe’s largest boarding school.  Before joining Millfield in 2019, Alexandra spent five years at St Mary’s Calne where she was Head of Science and latterly

From September 2025, Dulwich Prep will extend their offering for boys to 16 by opening a senior section at Alleyn Park encompassing Years 9, 10 and 11, thereby giving families the additional choice of staying with the school to GCSE. In making this change, the school wants to emphasise its continuing and wholehearted commitment to current

While we’ll likely have to wait for another week until most of the big prep schools publish their full results, a few prep schools have started sharing the results and we will update them here as soon as they are released. The following prep schools have shared their results so far: Latymer Upper offers by

Looking for Easter camp inspiration? Here is an overview of camps and activities that we can recommend or have been recommended by other parents across London: SPORTS Netball – there is a huge choice of excellent netball camps across London this Easter holiday. Our top pick is one of Surrey’s most successful junior club, Wandsworth

We are very excited to announce that King’s House School – up to now a boys’ prep school in Richmond – will become co-educational from September 2024, when girls will be able to join Reception for the first time. This decision reflects the strong demand from current and prospective parents for a co-ed prep school

Potentially related to City Junior School’s decision to hold an extra assessment process for 7+ entry in September 2023, the co-educational prep St Paul’s Cathedral School has also announced an additional 7+ day, to be held on Thursday 30 March 2023, and applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. This could be an

City Junior School recently held 7+ assessments for Year 3 entry in September 2023. Following the first round of offers, the school has decided to run a second round of 7+ assessments on Wednesday, 15 March. Registration deadline is this Friday, 3 March at 12pm. Formerly City of London School for Girls Prep School, City

Feb 10th is D-Day for independent school 11+ results in London and many parents will be eagerly refreshing their emails in the morning. When are 11+ results released? Admissions departments will send results spread out throughout the day, with the majority to be expected between around 10am and 2pm, depending on the school. Some emails