Norland Place

The big news from this lovely Holland Park prep – independently-owned, properly local, passionately non-selective and confident in its small-school status and size – is that it’s finally going down the fully co-educational route. From September 2020, they admitted the very first boys to join at Year 4 (until now, they had to peel off at 8+) and kickstarted a plan to become co-ed up to 11+.Jaunty chessboard tiles welcome you onto Norland’s patch of three adjoining townhouses on Holland Park Avenue. They’re higgledy-piggledy buildings, but classrooms are surprisingl...