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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Eilidh Dorgan

Sushi rolling, mandarin classes and mushroom shawarma for lunch: inside the new £35,000 a year London nursery

What is a nursery school for the “global elite”? It’s certainly not a phrase I’ve ever used to describe mad toddlers. But perusing the brochure of a new £35,000 a year preschool in West London called The Odyssey, whose campus cost £2million to build and kit, you immediately understand that you’re in a different world.

Finger painting and fish fingers, this is not. An alternative universe where kitchens are transformed into “cucinas”, art rooms are “ateliers”, and children’s music lessons become “bambino soundscapes”.

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