It started a pre-prep school in 1983 with just 3children.

By the end of the pre-prep school the aim is for pupils to be able to converse comfortably in both languages.

The Skinner and Hastings buildings were added in the 1960s, followed during the 1970s-1990s by an auditorium, pre-prep school, medical centre and biology laboratories.

These include pre-prep and preparatory schools, junior schools, senior schools and sixth form colleges.

The preparatory school has been coeducational since 2000 but the pre-prep school has always accepted girls.

In the late twentieth century the school became coeducational and added a nursery, kindergarten, and pre-prep school to the original preparatory school.

My friend Mary, who has taught for almost two decades at one of London's leading pre-prep schools, bears this out.

After the war it became a boy's boarding pre-prep school until in 1967 Leeson House was officially opened as a Field Studies Centre.

The school is split into three main sections, the main school, a pre-prep school and a pre-school.

There is a nursery, pre-prep and prep school at Our Lady's on The Avenue taking children from 6 months to 11 years.