UK’s Princess Kate to visit pioneering Italian schools funded by WW2 scrap metal
Key takeaways
- Those early efforts laid the foundations of the educational “Reggio Emilia approach,” now influential worldwide and aligned with Kate’s focus on children’s social and emotional wellbeing.
- Kate launched the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood in 2021 to bring together experts and research in the field.
- The trip, running from May 13 to May 14, will be Kate’s first official overseas visit since completing cancer treatment.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize ROME: On her trip to northern Italy next week, Britain’s Princess of Wales Kate Middleton will see how in the years after World War Two communities transformed abandoned military equipment, including a tank, into a globally influential model of early‑years education.
The visit will take Princess Kate to Reggio Emilia, where local residents — many of them women — helped finance some of Italy’s first nursery schools after the war by selling the scrap metal from equipment left behind by retreating German forces.
Those early efforts laid the foundations of the educational “Reggio Emilia approach,” now influential worldwide and aligned with Kate’s focus on children’s social and emotional wellbeing.