École Jeannine Manuel is an independent school in Camden local authority. It is a bilingual school and pupils are taught in French and English. The school’s mission is to ‘promote international understanding through bilingual education of a multicultural community of students’. The proprietor body is a registered charity, École Jeannine Manuel UK. The school is a sister school to École Jeannine Manuel in Paris. It opened in London in September 2015. The Nursery opened in September 2016. The school is registered to admit pupils between the ages of three and 16. There are Inspection report: École Jeannine Manuel, 13–15 December 2016 Page 7 of 10 currently 288 pupils on roll from age three to 14. Almost half the pupils joined the school in September 2016. Pupils enter the school with a wide range of different starting points in English and French, from fluency as a mother tongue to those with no experience in either French or English. The school occupies three houses in Bedford Square. The buildings have been converted and adapted for educational use. The school has small areas of outside space on-site but also makes use of local facilities for break and lunchtime and for physical education. The school was registered by the DfE in August 2015. This is the school’s first standard inspection.