• Amelia Scott - black and white photograph
    Learning Session

    In this session, pupils use their enquiry skills to find out about Amelia Scott (1860-1952) - local suffragist, first female councillor for Tunbridge Wells and campaigner for the people of our local area.

  • Red, yellow and blue pigments spilling out of glass test tubes.
    Learning Session

    In this session, pupils have the opportunity to look beyond the effects they can achieve using tubes of ready-mixed paints.

  • An ammonite fossil is in the foreground being held by a student
    Learning Session

    Pupils are cast as palaeontologists and set out to explore clues about what the world was like millions of years ago. 

  • Pupils studying pre-historic artefacts
    Learning Session

    Pupils are cast as archaeologists, exploring clues about what life was like in the Stone Age through to the Iron Age, with a particular focus on our local area.

  • A child handling a skull in an object handling tray.
    Learning Session

    With skulls all around the room, pupils work in teams to identify whether they are looking at herbivores or carnivores and then which animals the skulls belonged to.

  • Children playing at the Primary School Readiness course
    Event:
    Education

    Join us at The Amelia for our monthly learning sessions open to home educated children across the borough.

  • Children playing at the Primary School Readiness course
    Event:
    Education

    Join us at The Amelia for our monthly learning sessions open to home educated children across the borough.

  • Children playing at the Primary School Readiness course
    Event:
    Education

    Join us at The Amelia for our monthly learning sessions open to home educated children across the borough.

  • Children In the garden with an Amelia Scott team members studying items
    Learning Session

    Using the beautiful book by Emily Hughes, our sensory story immerses children in the world of the little gardener: his garden. 

  • Animals and plants exhibition
    Learning Session

    Pupils are taken on a sensory journey, seeking out butterflies among the flowers, leaves, wind and rain they experience along the way.

  • The Goosewoman (George Smart)
    Learning Session

    Arts Award Discover is the start of the Arts Award adventure. It takes children and young people on an artistic journey as they explore the arts all around them.

  • People visiting the Kent & Sussex Crematorium
    12 May 2026

    This month, our Home Educators took up the chance to find out what it’s like working at the Crematorium.

  • An ammonite fossil is in the foreground being held by a student
    Learning Session

    Pupils are cast as palaeontologists and set out to explore clues about what the world was like millions of years ago. 

  • Pupils studying pre-historic artefacts
    Learning Session

    Pupils are cast as archaeologists, exploring clues about what life was like in the Stone Age through to the Iron Age, with a particular focus on our local area.

  • The Amelia Scott building exterior
    30 March 2026

    Kent County Council has confirmed that Adult Education classes will no longer be delivered at The Amelia Scott due to national changes to the Adult Education Budget, now the Adult Skills Fund (ASF).

  • Students from Oakley School Council visit the Amelia Scott with The Chief Executive William Benson talking to them
    23 December 2025

    Last month, the student council from Oakley School visited The Amelia for a chance to find out about the workings of another kind of council – Tunbridge Wells Borough Council.