September 12, 2024
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.
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 of 5-10 minutes at the beginning and middle of every day is allocated to quietude in which pupils may meditate, contemplate or simply be still – according to their own spiritual inclinations.