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Tatler Schools Guide 2025 features St James Nursery & Preparatory School
September 12, 2024

Tatler Schools Guide 2025 features St James Nursery & Preparatory School

The Tatler Schools Guide, an annual review of the top schools in the UK, highlighted our school’s broad curriculum, and our unwavering focus on bringing stillness and calm into our pupils’ life.

“Mindfulness and philosophy are woven through many aspects of life here”

Praised for our performing arts and Sanskrit teaching by both parents and reviewers, we are delighted to be featured again in the 2025 edition.

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The Pause

At St James, we feel it is important to introduce our pupils to stillness and allow them to discover how to be inwardly free and deeply at ease within themselves. A short period at the beginning and end of every lesson is allocated to quietude in which pupils may meditate, contemplate or simply be still – according to their own spiritual inclinations.

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Exciting News!

We are delighted to announce the expansion of our Nursery provision from September, to better support our local families’ needs.


Open 48 weeks a year
Extended hours from 7.30am to 6.00pm
St James Nursery School becomes Little Shells Nursery at St James

We warmly welcome you to visit and experience for yourself the special environment our Nursery provides.

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