Is Prince George set to attend £47,000-a-year St Edward’s School?

The Prince and Princess of Wales are at present considering the troublesome query of the place to ship Prince George to secondary faculty.

And it seems a brand new establishment is within the operating after The Daily Mail revealed Kate, 42, and Prince William, 41, have been to try £47,000-a-year ‘Teddies’, as St Edward’s School in Oxford is understood.

The Princess underwent ‘profitable’ deliberate belly surgical procedure greater than three weeks in the past and is at present resting at her Windsor dwelling of Adelaide Cottage, so it is unclear when precisely the royal couple appeared round.

‘They’ve been to take a look,’ a Teddies grandee stated.

The co-educational establishment, based in 1863 by the Reverend Thomas Chamberlain, boasts a gifted headmaster, Alastair Chirnside.

As an Oxford undergraduate he took a Congratulatory First — conferred maybe solely as soon as in a decade for distinctive brilliance — in Classics and French, and in addition received a Half-Blue for rowing in Oxford’s light-weight crew.

The faculty’s spectacular alumni embody Dambusters chief Guy Gibson and fellow RAF legend Douglas Bader, in addition to actor Laurence Olivier and Oppenheimer star Florence Pugh.

On its web site, the headteacher highlights the college’s ‘spirit of inclusion’ and its ‘ethos of collaboration’.

He provides: ‘There should be alternative for all to participate and for all to excel. Children’s happiness and their capability to recognise what’s going to make them blissful are extra necessary than the rest.’

Speaking on the college’s philosophy, Mr Chirnside says: ‘Education is a profoundly private enterprise, based on good relationships and most profitable when academics and pupils can chart their course.

‘That philosophy has pushed St Edward’s current success, and it’ll present the inspiration for the college’s future.’

The instructional establishment boasts 100 ‘superb’ acres within the north of Oxford, which features a golf course and a ship home.

As for the curriculum, the college’s web site explains that pupils are inspired to look past examination outcomes and deal with long-term life targets.

In doing so, the college encourages kids to review ‘Pathways and Perspective’ programs alongside their GCSEs.

The programs have been designed by the college alongside ‘main educationalists’ and are accredited to Buckingham University, with a number of of the programs having hyperlinks to college departments.

The programs complement GCSE choices, and canopy areas together with Sustainability, Design, Sports Science, and the Classical World.

The Sustainability course will seemingly attraction to the Prince of Wales, who’s recognised for his green-focused outlook.

Pupils additionally take between seven to 11 GCSEs, with English Language, World Literature, Maths and Science (Double or Triple award) and one Modern Foreign Language being obligatory.

The faculty seeks further prices for extracurricular actions, together with drama, golf and crusing classes.

Among ‘Teddies’ key aims is to show a variety of life expertise, which is why pupils should be part of the Combined Cadet Force. Pupils can select between the Army, Navy and Air Force Sections.

Founded in 1948 as a Ministry of Defence youth organisation, the goals of the course are to ‘present a disciplined organisation in a college in order that pupils might develop powers of management via coaching to advertise the qualities of duty, self-reliance, resourcefulness, endurance and perseverance’. 

The Prince and Princess of Wales are additionally identified to champion youth psychological well being – which is one other philosophy prioritised by ‘Teddies’. 

Last 12 months, the college supported Oxfordshire Youth to enhance kids’s psychological well being within the faculty and the broader neighborhood.

St Edward’s additionally hosts an annual Youth in Mind convention in partnership with Oxfordshire Mind.

The convention is open to social and well being staff from throughout the UK and offers the chance to listen to from audio system and develop expertise in bettering kids and younger folks’s psychological well being.

Although Prince William and Prince Harry had been each educated at Eton College, only a quick distance from Windsor Castle, it has not been confirmed if Prince George will comply with in his father and uncle’s footsteps.

He has additionally been linked together with his mom Kate’s former faculty, Marlborough College, the place Pippa and James Middleton had been additionally educated.

The Mail on Sunday reported George has already been allotted a ‘home’ in a secure location and given a housemaster on the faculty if he does finally attend.

But there may be stated to be concern that Marlborough has grow to be ‘too flashy’ after an increase in its reputation with ultra-rich households as a result of its affiliation with the Middletons.

‘The 2024 model of Marlborough could also be fairly totally different from how Kate remembers it,’ a supply stated. 

‘It’s grow to be slightly extra jet-set. Lots of oldsters have villas in Ibiza, chalets in Verbier or a personal jet, which is not Kate’s fashion. She prefers understated wealth.’

They added: ‘Kate needs a college that fits all of her kids and retains them grounded.’

Last week, the Mail on Sunday reported that Kate and William have additionally listed the distinguished Oundle School amongst their prime decisions for his or her eldest son, who will probably be leaving main faculty this summer season.

Oundle School in north Northamptonshire claims to assist form its pupils into ‘first rate’, ‘open-minded’ and ‘bold’ adults – however by no means ‘boastful’.

The establishment, based in 1556, boasts that pupils, generally known as Oundelians, ‘share the city of Oundle’ with residents as its buildings are scattered across the space in an open campus which features a chapel and a cricket floor.

The headteacher, Sarah Kerr-Dineen, has studied at each Oxford and Cambridge, describes pupils on the faculty as ‘intellectually curious, energetic, resourceful’.