Kate Middleton beams as she joins giddy school kids on minibus for special outing

Kate Middleton beams as she joins giddy school kids on minibus for special outing

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The Princess of Wales traveled with a bus full of schoolchildren to a royal engagement, taking her early years crusade one step further.

Kate is known for taking the school bus to the National Portrait Gallery before taking the kids on it. She is also known for taking Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis on the school bus. The future queen made the short trip to Trafalgar Square with the four and five-year-old students from Fitzrovia’s All Souls CE Primary School to launch an interactive trail inside the Gallery.

The Princess launched on February 1 with the help of the Shaping Us Framework, which outlines 30 social and emotional skills that are essential to living a healthy, happy life at all ages. The Bobeam Tree Trail was based on work by her Royal Foundation for Early Childhood.

Kate joins school children at the National Portrait Gallery today
Kate joins school children at the National Portrait Gallery today (Samir Hussein/WireImage)
The princess waves as she arrives for her visit
The princess makes a wave when she arrives for a visit (Daily Mirror/Ian Vogler).

She joined young people in activities centered around portraits to help them use and practice these crucial skills by combining two of her passions, art and early years development.

The trail is based on a magical tree with beautiful, colourful leaves, which thrives when surrounded by stories. Children were asked to assist the tree by listening to audio recordings, listening to facial expressions, and using props to learn the stories of the people depicted in the artworks.

As the pupils and teachers pondered how faces can express feelings and emotions and how they were asked to consider their own lives, feelings, and thoughts while drawing a self portrait, which they could “feed” to the tree to help it grow big and strong, Kate joined them in exploring how faces can express feelings and emotions.

Kate guides the excitable children into the gallery
The gallery (PA) is led by Kate to entertain the curious children.

The trail is completely free and runs until March 16 and is intended for children who are in the nursery and reception. There are also home-related activities available on the NPG website. The Princess also had the opportunity to meet the newly appointed director, Victoria Siddall, as well as five other UK galleries’ top executives and experts from different countries.

The Box, Plymouth, The Lowry, Manchester, Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, National Museums Northern Ireland, Museums and Galleries Sheffield will collaborate with the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood and the National Portrait Gallery to bring the Shaping Us framework to life through their own collections over the course of 2025.

Additionally, staff at the museums and galleries will collaborate on a toolkit to help other UK museums and galleries incorporate the framework into their offerings for younger visitors. The future Queen unveiled the Shaping Us Framework earlier this week, calling on society to “invest in humankind” and “build a more loving, empathetic and compassionate” world.

Drawn up by international academics, clinicians and early years practitioners brought together by her Centre for Early Childhood, it is hoped that the framework might be applied across society, in areas such as wellbeing programmes, team building, professional development, recruitment and human resources.

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