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Guildford High Junior School
The Sunday Times ranked Guildford High Junior School (above) as the top independent prep school in its 2020 league tables after its stellar SATs results for reading, grammar and maths. This all-girls’ school prides itself on being a “lively, happy place where girls blossom personally, intellectually and socially”. The junior school is selective but girls progress to the high-achieving senior school next door without having to take an additional exam. Having successfully led the junior school since 2016, current head Mike Gibb leaves at the end of the academic year and will be replaced by Allistair Williamson, deputy head of Surbiton Girls’ and Boys’ Preparatory School. guildfordhigh.co.uk
A racist pensioner who terrorised a lollipop lady outside Jacob Rees-Mogg s prep school will be sentenced next month.
Mukesh Vala, 66, shouted vile abuse at Westminster Under School crossing attendant Julie Khames leaving her too terrified to work.
He also attacked the school s deputy headmaster and several medical professionals.
Vala s campaign of harassment took place when he was already subject to a suspended prison sentence.
Many of his crimes took place in front of pupils of the £41,000-a-year school, whose alumni includes Tory minister Rees-Mogg, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Labour MP Hilary Benn.
Mukesh Vala, 66, shouted vile abuse at Westminster Under School crossing attendant Julie Khames over several weeks, leaving her too terrified to work outside Westminster Under School in central London