We are moving to London from the US with 2 babies (12mos). We will likely be living in Notting Hill/St Johns Wood. I'm trying to study up on the private schooling system but have a couple questions, maybe someone could help me out.
Firstly, our actual move date may not be for another couple months, and could be up to 6 months away (depends on DH's work). Does anyone know if we can apply to pre-prep before we actually live in London?
We'd love to get them into Wetherby/Pembridge Hall, which I know is probably a long-shot, but we'll join the wait list. What other similar ranking schools would you would suggest sending applications off to?
I see that boys that go to Wetherby pre-prep automatically move into Wetherby prep, but Pembridge Hall is only until age 11. So - what happens then? Does the school assist in placing the students or not at all? Do you need to send applications in years in advance? ie: once the girl is accepted into Pembridge Hall at age 4, do you right away start applying for her prep school? Or would you say it is much more ideal to get them into a school that has a pre-prep AND prep so they automatically feed in...
Finally, for nursery school, is this hard to get into as well? Should I send the nursery applications off with the pre-prep ones?
Thanks in advance! Signed, overwhelmed American : )
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