Kate joins young children on school trip to National Portrait Gallery

The Princess of Wales has joined a group of primary school children on a trip to the National Portrait Gallery.

Kate took a minibus with the reception class students and held hands with some of the four and five-year-olds as they walked into the popular arts attraction in central London.

She became buddies with one little girl, Grace, aged five, during the bus ride from All Souls Church of England Primary School in Fitzrovia, and the pair teamed up throughout the visit.

The 13 children were taken on the magical Bobeam Tree Trail based on the new Shaping Us Framework, which is published by Kate's Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood.

The royal has been a strong advocate for early years children, and this next stage in her project is aimed at teaching children emotional skills and the ability to form positive relationships.

She has previously called her early years project her "life's work".

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Kate wrote the foreword for a report published to mark the launch of the framework, describing how modern life was leaving many feeling "isolated and vulnerable" during troubled periods, resulting in "poor mental health, addiction and abuse" that was "devastating" for those affected and society.

The solution was to "develop and nurture" the social and emotional skills we all possess from the moment we are born which are the "bedrock of any healthy, happy society", but this must be a priority if we are to "thrive", she said.

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