Wetherby School is an independent
school for boys located at two separate sites in London. The pre-prep
department (original school) is located in Notting Hill and the prep school is
located in Westminster. The school is named after Wetherby Place, in turn named
after a West Yorkshire town, Wetherby. It is not to be confused with Wetherby
High School, the Yorkshire town's local secondary school.
History of Wetherby School:
Wetherby
School was founded in 1951 as a pre-preparatory school for boys aged 4–8. In
2004 it opened a preparatory department (known as Wetherby Prep, and intended
to be a separate school) in a nearby building, allowing boys to stay on until
the age of 13. The prep school has since moved to its current location in the
City of Westminster. The pre-preparatory school had, in 2005, 233 boys on its
roll, including 29 under the age of 5. The school's original building, in 1951,
was in Wetherby Place in south Kensington (hence the name, Wetherby School) but
in 1971 it moved to its present building in Pembridge Square, on the other side
of Kensington Gardens. The school building is a white stucco double fronted
Victorian house in the Italianate style typical of Notting Hill and Holland
Park architecture, constructed in about 1850. It is on the south side of
Pembridge Square, a private garden square with keyholder-only access which the
boys use as their playground.
Website: http://www.wetherbyschool.co.uk/
Phone:
+44 20 7727 9581
Location: Pembridge Square, London, England,
United Kingdom.
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