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Today I was lucky enough to shadow two learning programmes here in Vienna. This morning I toured Schloss Schonbrunn with my colleague Isabella Barta and a group of 8-9 year olds from the American International School. The group were full of questions about life in the palace in the time of Maria Theresia and her descendants. [...]
On Saturday we welcomed 35 newly qualified Palace Explorers from Our Lady of Victories primary school to Kensington. In total over 120 people took part, Palace Explorers, their parents, grandparents, siblings etc. It was so lovely to see the King’s Gallery filled with people and to hear the children’s stories they’d written as part of [...]
I love this photo of my colleague Michelle Barton teaching print making and pattern techniques to Year 8 from our partner school, St Thomas More Language College. It was great to work with them today and they came up with some really nice designs. To see photos from the schools partnership please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/53589066@N03/sets/72157633040017679/ [...]
Patterns in the palace. Today we welcomed the first class from Year 8 at St Thomas More Language College to Kensington Palace to take part in the first stage of their project looking at ‘patterns in the palace’. The students are going to be making ceramic tiles with patterns on inspired by the patterns at Kensington and [...]
Shoes, shoes, shoes Here are some images of the Year 7 student’s work yesterday at Kensington Palace. To see photos from the schools partnership please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/53589066@N03/sets/72157633040017679/ Jenny
Shoes, shoes, shoes! Yesterday was all about shoes at Kensington. We held the first session of our schools partnership project workshop with Year 7 art students from St Thomas More Language College, looking at historic shoes from the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection. Students are going to create their own 3D giant sculptures of shoes out of [...]
Today we had the first session of our new schools partnership project with St Thomas More Language College Art and Design department. http://webfronter.com/rbkc/stm/ We’re going to be working with Head of Art and Design, Russell Carter on a series of projects with students from years 7, 8, 9 and 10. Each project will take a different [...]
The Tower of London occupies a prominent place in our nation’s history; many of the events that have helped to shape the country we live in today have taken place within the very walls of this fortress. The Tower is also, however, the subject of a great number of myths. In fact, it occupies a central position [...]
Some of you may already be familiar of the Challenging History initiative of which HRP Education initiated with colleagues from the MLA (when it existed), IWM, and City Uni. Earlier this year we did our first Challenging History conference at City Uni and the Tower of London to complete a Grundtvig-funded project that had partners [...]
On Friday, 9th November we were visited by a small group of nine students from the Tower’s secondary partner school, Prendergast Ladywell Fields College in Lewisham, who met with three serving Fusiliers and the Chief Yeoman Warder, Alan Kingshott, to understand more about the importance of Remembrance Sunday. Some of the questions they asked included: [...]