Prince George will be attending ‘busy and chaotic’ school
PRINCE GEORGE will be going to a “busy” and “slightly chaotic” London school where the cosmopolitan capital is reflected in the 19 languages spoken in pupils’ homes, according to a schools guide.
The four-year-old, who will one day be king, begins fulltime education in September when he joins one of three reception classes at private day school Thomas’s Battersea.
The school, where fees cost from £17,604 a year, was reviewed as “A big, busy, slightly chaotic school for cosmopolitan parents who want their children to have the best English education money can buy. That is what they want and, to a large degree, that is what they get”. The assessment by
added: “Plenty of opportunities for pupils to excel but withdrawn types might find it all somewhat overwhelming.”
Like George, new headmaster Simon O’Malley starts at the school in September. An Aberdeen University graduate, he has taught in Kenya and previously was headmaster of Wellesley House School in Kent, a post he held for 11 years.
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“Much-liked and respected by parents”.
The school, a selective establishment, has 560 boys and girls aged from four to 13, with about 20 in each class. It is described in the guide as having great facilities from its science labs to gym.
The guide, which said 19 languages are spoken in the homes of pupils, added: “School celebrates and appears to make the most of this range of different cultures.”