Kate Middletonis continuing her ongoing work highlighting the importance ofsupporting children from a young age.
Kate Middleton joins portage session for children with special needs on Sept. 27, 2023.Zak Hussein/SplashNews
Zak Hussein/SplashNews
The National Portage Association, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, works with over 100 Portage services, providing a quality framework and training for practitioners and parents.
Princess Kate, 41, saw a sensory development class with a group of children with a range of needs. She met with the families and frontline workers to understand how portage supports them on a daily basis.
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Getting down on the floor, Princess Kate joined in on some of the fun activities, from playing with shredded paper to checking out a foam pit with a young girl named Skylar.
“She is very sweet,” Kate said, according toHello!magazineof Skylar. At one point, she gave the youngster a double thumbs-up.
Kate Middleton visits a portage session on Sept. 27, 2023.PAUL GROVER/POOL/AFP via Getty
PAUL GROVER/POOL/AFP via Getty
The royal also spent time with 3-year-old Darcie, who was busy playing with colorful bits of paper. Kate even revealed that the little girl shared a name with one of her son Prince Louis' schoolmates.
“Louis' got a Darcie in his class,” she shared, according toHello!magazine.
Janet Rickman, Chair of the National Portage Association, told the outlet, “You could see she was really engaged with the families and playing with the children.”
Kate Middleton meets Darcie at a portage session on Sept. 27, 2023.Paul Grover/Shutterstock
Earlier this year, the royal launched theShaping Us campaignfor herRoyal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood.
“The campaign is fundamentally about shining a spotlight on the critical importance of early childhood and how it shapes the adults we become,” Kate said in a speech surrounding the project’s launch. “This is why it is essential, to not only understand the unique importance of our earliest years but to know what we can all do to help raise future generations of happy, healthy adults.”
Just like theRoyal Foundation’s Heads Together campaign, which focused on creating an openness to talk about mental health, “the Princess really wants this campaign to bring about change in the way that we think about and see the importance of early years,” a spokesperson at Kensington Palace said. The spokesperson added that the campaign was just the start and that the cause would be a “golden thread throughout her working life.”
Kate Middleton visits a portage session on Sept. 27, 2023.Paul Grover - WPA Pool/Getty
Paul Grover - WPA Pool/Getty
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Earlier this month, Prince William and Princess Kate stepped out together to join schoolchildren for anoutdoor lesson at their forest school. Each child at Madley Primary School in Hereford attends a class in nature at least once a week, learning their regular required lessons as well as environmental awareness, conservation and woodland management.
According to theschool’s website, “Forest school is a fully integrated part of our curriculum and is accessible to all year groups, not just building dens but finding out about ecology, experiencing writing in the woods, construction from natural materials, using equipment safely, using knives correctly and enjoying a stimulating environment.”
Kate Middleton visits a portage session with special needs children on Sept. 27, 2023.Chris Jackson/Getty
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