The aim of the programme is to build a relationship between St Mary Abbots Primary and the palace over a sustained period of time. This will include visits to the palace and activities at the school agreed upon collaboratively between the teachers and the education officer at Kensington Palace.
We're really excited to be able to work with St Mary Abbots, just round the corner from us. We want to welcome students, teachers, parents and govenors to use the palace as a source of inspiration, place to visit and feel at home here.
About the school
St Mary Abbots is one form entry with 210 students. It is a voluntary aided Church of England Primary school in the Diocese of London for children between 4 and 11 years. It is located off High Street Kensington and Kensington Church Street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
For more information please see their
school website
Projects and outcomes
We have already worked with St Mary Abbots on a number of different engagement projects.
Artist in Residence programme (April - May 2011)
Our Artist in Residence Natalie Ryde worked with Year 4 and 5 from St Mary Abbots to produce class wallpapers inspired by the patterns and prints in the palace. For more information please see our
Artist in Residence programme.
Poetry competition (June - July 2011)
To prepare for their annual school poetry competition, each class from St Mary Abbots visited the palace to take part in one of our
Enchanted Tales sessions. Students used Mercedes Kemp's poem 'A Sleepwalking Princess' to practice their poetry recital skills ready for the Bevir Cup competition.
Year 1 planting our new wild flower meadow (September 2011)
In September, Year 1 from St Mary Abbots helped to plant a new wild flower meadow at Kensington Palace as part of the ongoing
£12 million project to transform the Palace by 26 March 2012. The children, were given a handful of seeds and under the instruction of Historic Royal Palaces’ Gardens & Estates Manager, Graham Dillamore, helped to sow a mix of wild flower seeds including Betanys, Daisies, Yellow Rattles and Ladies Bedstraw.
