Westminster is an independent boarding and day school in the heart of Central London next to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. It is a happy, busy and purposeful place where individual and collective excellence is encouraged. Boys can join Westminster at 13+ and girls and boys can join the co-educational sixth form at 16+. The origins of the School can be traced back to the monastic school of the great Benedictine abbey at Westminster which was founded over a thousand years ago. In 1560 Queen Elizabeth I gave the School its statutes in which she said: '...the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state...'. Academic Excellence, Liberal tradition, Leading independent school, Leading UK School, 13-16 year old boys, Coeducational Sixth Form, Boarding and day school, Elizabethan foundation