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🙂 Did you know…
… there is an annual Prize Competition for children in years 5 & 6 called the Hooker Prize?
More information about the 2026 prize is coming in January 2026! Watch this space!
🙂 Do you know…
… how you can enter the competition?
… the competition is named after a lovely lady called Cherry Hooker? Here she is at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party in the Victorian Kitchen.
… hundreds of children have entered the competition by writing poems about the mansion or the park
The 2026 competition will be to write a letter as if you lived long ago and visited Valentines when one of the families lived there!
🙂 Can you find out…?
… how many children have lived at Valentines while it was a family home?
… what other names (apart from George, Thomas, Elizabeth and Margaret) were popular in Victorian times for boys and girls?
FUN FACTS
In the 1800s the first child to live at Valentines was called Sarah! Do you know anyone called Sarah?
In the 1800s children wrote letters with quill pens dipped in ink!
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