“Step through the time portal…” invites the Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust’s new brochure of Educational Visits to be offered in the coming year. Along with old favourites such as the “Tudor Treasure Trail”, “Victor’s Victorian Ventures”, “Monsters and Mazes” and “Our Home Through History”, for next year the Trust’s excellent Education team has updated its creative writing activity day, “The Pen is Mightier”, and added two brand new programmes, “How Plants Grow” – to be led by a member of the Knebworth House Gardens team – and an A Level English Literature day themed around Edward Bulwer Lytton and his literary contemporaries. The Trust will also be continuing its outreach programme, where two of its costumed “Time Trekkers” visit schools and lead activities such as Tudor music & dance or Victorian dinner customs.
We are very proud of Knebworth House’s Education programme – and its success is reflected, this year, in a third successive win of the Sandford Award, for excellence in heritage education. It is not just because is spells a pronounceable (and appropriate) acronym that the word “Education” sits so importantly in the centre of the charity’s name – congratulations to KHEPT!
Henry Lytton Cobbold
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