The new school year Prince George started on September 6th. What awaits a student at a prestigious private school and what other celebrities will his first child be with? Kate Middleton attends classes?
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The young prince began school at the age of four. Kate Middleton's firstborn is a student at Thomas's Battersea private school in southwest London. Note that in the UK children attend kindergarten up to 4-5 years, then move to primary school. The cost of training the prince is 18 thousand pounds sterling per year (1,500 million rubles).
Everybody dance!
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According to the British media, the school where Prince George studies provides active extracurricular activities. And there is special, increased attention to choreography lessons at school. Over the course of two years, children master dance skills and then take exams at the Royal Academy of Dance. Program training course consists of three dance disciplines:
- ballet is the basis and the most important part of the curriculum;
- free dance - a mix course that incorporates movements from many popular dance styles, including jazz and contemporary;
- character dance - theatrical presentation of national dance using original ethnic music. In three styles: Hungarian, Russian and Polish, chosen for their historical significance in the development of classical ballet of the 19th century.
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Having become a grade older, Prince George will study history, geography, master penmanship and learn to draw. There is also a place for Bible study in the curriculum. It should be noted that at Thomas's Battersea school, increased attention is paid to information technology. Therefore, Prince George will begin to master the basics of computer literacy: working with text and applications.
In a healthy body healthy mind!
Particular attention is paid at school physical education. Schoolchildren will participate in team and individual competitions.
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Lessons on a sensitive topic
Prince George's school schedule includes PSHE (health education) sessions that cover sex education and are compulsory as part of the national curriculum in England.
Now at home: just studying
This year not only has changed school program boy, but there was also more homework.
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Bon appetit!
What students are fed: turkey and ham pie, steamed broccoli and cauliflower, potatoes. For fans of fish dishes, the chefs prepare mackerel with lentils. There is also a vegetarian menu: chickpeas, spinach and sweet potato curry.
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Children have a sweet tooth, so desserts include Portuguese cake, fresh fruit, oatmeal and raisin cookies served with a banana milkshake or tropical fruit smoothie.
Parle vous France?
Kate Middleton and Prince William chose Thomas's Battersea private school for their son because its curriculum includes studying French and art.
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The right to privacy is important
This year the Cambridges decided not to share school photos Prince George. Let us remember that last year there were official photos on this topic. The reluctance to demonstrate the educational routine of Kate Middleton's first child is due to the fact that the spouses consider it private history your family. After all, as you know, the boy’s eminent parents try to protect him from increased attention press.
Two royals in one class
His relative, Maude Windsor, is studying in the same class as Prince George. The girl's father is a second cousin Prince Charles.
Prince George returns to Thomas' Battersea School this week. Let's see what the future king is going to learn in this upcoming school year.
The private school, with fees of £6,110, is for both boys and girls aged 4 to 13 years. As well as academics, the focus is on the arts, sports and outdoor activities, so it's no surprise that George will be busier at school than he was last year.
On the first day he will be a little scared - meeting a new teacher and settling into new class but some things will remain the same as it is school uniform, his classmates and his friends.
In his first year, George studied French, computers, art, music, drama and ballet, but the new school year will introduce him to new subjects such as history and geography. Children will also be taught mathematics and English. George will even get homework - ten minutes of reading every evening.
George and his classmates will also learn days of the week, months of the year, numbers up to twenty, colors, names and addresses, and the name and address of the school.
While still young, George will study Religious Studies, in which he will develop an awareness of “spiritual and moral issues in life experience.” He will be taught key features Christianity, as well as other major world religions. The curriculum here will focus on introduction to the Bible and New Testament throughout the year.
Surprisingly, George already knows a little French, having learned to say hello and count from one to ten. Now he will study the days of the week, subjects in the classroom and traditional French songs. There will also be an emphasis on simple tales and role-playing stories to help children “develop accurate pronunciation and fluency.”
George and his friends will also receive a 40-minute lesson in computer technology. They will learn to turn their computers on and off and open and close programs, recognize and use tools in Word, save and load their work in different folders, and use the mouse with “increased accuracy and confidence.” These lessons will not be held in their classroom, but in a room that has 22 networked computers.
Prince George will also have Drama - one 40-minute lesson per week. The classes will teach children skills in communication, confidence, teamwork, physical awareness and observation. In addition to the Drama there will be a music lesson, which is described as “an integral part of curriculum" The school called singing “a very important feature of a child’s musical development and experience.” First year students can also join the choir. It works on a “come and sing” basis without listening, with the hope that the child will develop a love and enjoyment of singing from within. Meanwhile, if the child wants, he can have individual or group instrumental lessons at school.
The school year has begun not only for millions of schoolchildren and students around the world, but also for four-year-olds: the heir to the British crown today, September 7, went to school in London. The boy was accompanied by his father, Prince William, who led George by the hand to Thomas's Battersea school and introduced him to its director, Helen Haslem. A video of the touching moment has already appeared on the official page of Kensington Palace on Instagram:
This morning, the Duke of Cambridge took Prince George to Thomas's Battersea School in London. The headmistress of the school met Their Royal Highnesses at the entrance and escorted the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George to class. This is Prince George's first day at new school,
- said palace representatives.
The footage shows that little George is a little nervous when he meets the school principal. Perhaps the prince did not have his mother nearby that day: she missed her son’s first class at the new school, as she was suffering from morning sickness due to.
But Kate was in time with her son’s teachers: shortly before the start school year the Dukes of Cambridge went to Parent meeting, where we met the teaching staff of the school, George’s classmates and their parents. Thomas's Battersea is a new educational institution for the prince. Since January 2016, Kate and William's son attended Westacre Montessori School Nursery in Norfolk, where the family lived for three years. Kensington Palace entailed a search for a new school for George. The boy's parents Thomas's School, where a year of education costs 23 thousand dollars.
Contrary to everyone's expectations, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge decided to continue the tradition of ignoring all the typical "royal" educational institutions(as was the case with kindergarten) and send their eldest son to study not at Wetherby Prep School, where his father and uncle went, but to the hitherto little-known family private school Thomas's Battersea (more about where else he could study heir, read: Schools for future kings: where Prince George will be and where Prince George could study.) Now the road from Kensington Palace to the prince’s school will take not three minutes by car, as in the case of Wetherby Prep School, but all twenty. At the same time William and Catherine have already stated that they will try to give their son rides themselves and will not contribute in any way to ensuring that George’s presence in any way “contradicts the values of Thomas’s Battersea.”
We tried to find out what these values are and how little George’s life will change with the advent of lessons and homework.
School honor
So, in September, Prince George of Cambridge will have his first day of school at Thomas's Battersea school, one year of which will cost his parents $23 thousand. The news of William and Kate's decision became known to Great Britain back in the spring, and, I must say, since then The popularity of the school is only growing. Thus, the authoritative portal Good Schools Guide, which provides detailed reviews of British educational institutions, has already stated: popularity educational institution is growing so rapidly that some parents reserve seats for their children even before they are born.
Meanwhile, not everyone can get into the same school as the heir to the British Crown - at Thomas's Battersea there is a competition of 3 people per place, and selection is carried out according to such criteria as “self-confidence, responsiveness, sociability and light in the eyes.”
The school’s motto, “Be Kind,” succinctly reflects the main value of the educational institution: tolerance. Thomas's Battersea has students from at least 19 nationalities, which has already earned it the reputation of being "a large, active and slightly chaotic school that cosmopolitan parents would choose to give their children better education"that money can only get." The school deliberately develops in children the need to communicate and make friends with all their classmates - so much so that the very concept of “ best friend" is considered taboo in this institution.
And although, according to the guide, some particularly “closed” people may find the teaching style of Thomas’s Battersea too “oppressive,” the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge obviously liked the school’s values. George will go to the very junior class(the institution accepts children from 4 to 13 years old), after which they will go to high school- most likely, to the elite Eton or Westminster (unless, of course, Kate’s democracy prevails here too). Well, for now the next nine years of his life will go something like this.
What will be taught
“In every school we strive to provide pupils with a program that meets the highest academic standards, as well as a rich and broad curriculum designed to promote quality learning, enjoyment and achievement,” is how Thomas's Battersea, which has several branches across London, describes itself. What is behind this beautiful phrase can be understood by looking at the list of disciplines that Prince George and his classmates will study.
In the first year, students mostly explore the world through play. Their schedule will include physical education, the world, as well as a subject called “personal, social and emotional development" There will be more serious disciplines (for example, basic mathematics, spelling, native language and even French), and “for the soul” (ballroom dancing, art, music and ICT).
Students will be transported to sports competitions (including rowing) by their own buses, and students will spend the winter holidays at the institution’s branch in Austria, skiing.
School uniform
And here is the uniform of the future first-grader. If his father and uncle wore a gray wool uniform with red trim, then George will go to school in a dark blue jumper, matching trousers, a light blue shirt, red socks, black shoes, and a tie with a scarlet print (red trim, By the way, it is here too). The British company John Lewis has been sewing uniforms with the symbol of the institution - a unicorn with a book - for Thomas's Battersea for many years. The average price of one item is £30.
In addition, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will have to purchase a sports uniform for their son (including a pool cap and ballet shoes), as well as a special apron for drawing.
In total, William and Kate will pay about £365 for winter and summer uniforms, as well as dance and physical education costumes. And this does not include a backpack, stationery and “your” additional items of outerwear (for example, a winter hat, gloves and a scarf).
Diet
Future luminaries of British science will study until lunchtime and eat twice a day in their early years. In the morning, as a snack, students will be offered natural organic milk, a fresh bun with raisins, and Italian breadsticks - grissini.
For lunch, schoolchildren will be served freshly prepared (but without any special frills) dishes: natural meat, vegetables, and dairy products. It seems that Thomas's Battersea diet will be especially to the taste of George's grandfather, Prince Charles, a fan of everything organic.
What surname will Prince George have?
Finally, when almost all the cards regarding the future studies of the heir are revealed, one last intrigue remains: how will teachers and classmates address the famous student? The point is that members royal family Those close to the throne are not given a surname: according to protocol, they must be addressed by their title - for example, "Prince of Wales", "Duchess of Cornwall", "Earl of Wessex" and so on. However, in Thomas's Battersea, little George is given away, among other things, in order to avoid special treatment of the heir as much as possible, so the address “Prince of Cambridge” is excluded here.
The public is still wondering what the schoolboy will be called. According to one version, the prince's surname will simply be "Cambridge", similar to how his father and uncle were called "Welsh" at school. According to another, George will be called by the dynasty's last name - Mountbatten-Windsor. However, here too some ambiguities arise. The fact is that only people have a double surname younger sons Elizabeth - Andrew and Edward. This story dates back to the middle of the last century, when the family of Prince Philip and the Duke of Edinburgh himself demanded from the monarch that the surname and their dynasty - Mountbatten - be included in the glorious family of Windsor. And Elizabeth herself, madly in love with her husband, might have gone for it if not for a categorical “no” from Parliament. Elizabeth's first children - heir Charles and "spare" Princess Anne - were strictly forbidden to give their father's surname, but the third and fourth sons were still allowed to take a double surname. Since then, the descendants of Andrew and Edward, in exceptional cases, bear the surname Windsor-Mountbatten.
The news that Prince George went to school was a real highlight this week. The photographs of William of Cambridge leading his first-born son by the hand brought a smile of affection to many: the child in a school uniform looks very touching. So that George gets a good education, William and Catherine took a long time and responsibly to choose a school. As a result, they chose the London preparatory school Thomas's Battersea, which costs about 18 thousand pounds sterling per year, and judging by the information about how the training is carried out, this price seems quite justified.
Prince George is nervous on his way to school.
George of Cambridge is third in line to the British throne. Parents William and Catherine of Cambridge do not hide their joy that their baby became a student this year. Four-year-old George was sent to preparatory school. On the first day of school, William personally escorted his son to the school building, where he was met by principal Helen Haslem. Father and son arrived at school in a personal Range Rover ten minutes before the start of the lesson. George was wearing his school uniform: a jumper, a blue shirt and shorts. In his hands, William carried a satchel with a George Cambridge badge. 
Prince George, accompanied by his father William of Cambridge and headmaster Helen Haslem.
Unfortunately, Katherine was unable to be with her son at this crucial moment due to poor health. Expecting her third child, the Duchess suffers from toxicosis. 
Prince George on his first day of school.
The photographs show that George was confused: after shaking Helen’s hand, he immediately ran to his father. However, literally after a few minutes the boy calmed down and began to get acquainted with his classmates. There will be 20 people in the prince's class. In addition to general education subjects, children will be taught the basics of ballet, French, art, drama and music. 
First acquaintance with the school.
William and Catherine took a long time to choose a school. As children, they studied at traditional schools, but for their first son they wanted to find educational institution, where learning will be more interesting and effective. Thomas Battersea is said to be "a large, busy and somewhat chaotic school for cosmopolitan parents who want their children to have the best education in England that money can buy." 
Local residents are awaiting the prince's arrival at school.
Prince George with his mother Catherine of Cambridge.
William and Catherine are expecting a new addition to their family.
Prince George became a preparatory school student.
