{"id":2465,"date":"2019-02-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/belle-tutaev-wolmers-guardian-2019\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T23:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:59:36","slug":"belle-tutaev-wolmers-guardian-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-profiles\/belle-tutaev-wolmers-guardian-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Belle Tutaev, Wolmer\u2019s school, Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style id=\"wt-page\">\n@import url(\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Cinzel:wght@600&family=EB+Garamond:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;1,400&family=Inter:wght@400;500;600&display=swap\");\n.wt-page { --maroon:#5C0E14; --gold:#C9A24A; --cream:#F8F1E1; --ink:#1A1A1A; --line:#D9CFB8;\n  background:var(--cream); color:var(--ink); font-family:\"EB Garamond\",Georgia,serif; font-size:20px; line-height:1.55; }\n.wt-page * { box-sizing:border-box; }\n.wt-page a { color:var(--maroon); }\n.wt-page .wrap { width:min(760px, calc(100% - 40px)); margin:0 auto; }\n.wt-page .hero { background:#5C0E14; color:#F8F1E1; }\n.wt-page .hero .wrap { padding:56px 0 36px; }\n.wt-page .eyebrow { font-family:Inter,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12px; letter-spacing:.22em; text-transform:uppercase; color:#C9A24A; margin:0 0 10px; }\n.wt-page h1 { font-family:Cinzel,Georgia,serif; font-weight:600; font-size:clamp(28px,4vw,42px); margin:0 0 8px; color:#F8F1E1 !important; line-height:1.15; }\n.wt-page section { padding:48px 0; }\n.wt-page h2 { font-family:Cinzel,Georgia,serif; font-size:22px; letter-spacing:.06em; margin:28px 0 8px; color:#5C0E14; }\n.wt-page .rule { width:56px; height:2px; background:#C9A24A; margin:0 0 22px; }\n.wt-page p { margin:0 0 16px; }\n.wt-page .lead { margin:0 0 24px; }\n.wt-page .lead img { display:block; width:100%; height:auto; }\n.wt-page figcaption { font-family:Inter,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px; color:#555; margin:8px 0 0; }\n.wt-page .src { margin:0; padding-left:1.1em; font-size:16px; }\n.wt-page .src li { margin:0 0 8px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"wt-page\">\n  <section class=\"hero\"><div class=\"wrap\">\n    <p class=\"eyebrow\">Profile<\/p>\n    <h1>Belle Tutaev, Wolmer\u2019s school in Kingston, OBE<\/h1>\n  <\/div><\/section>\n  <section><div class=\"wrap\">\n      <p>The Guardian of 14 February 2019, in its obituary of Belle Tutaev, recorded that she \u201cwent to Wolmer\u2019s school in Kingston.\u201d<\/p>\n      <p>The same obituary recorded that her 1961 letter to the paper, headed \u201cDo-it-yourself nurseries,\u201d led her to found the Pre-School Playgroups Association, later the Pre-school Learning Alliance. She was appointed OBE in 2012. She died on 15 January 2019, aged 89.<\/p>\n      <p>The Early Years Alliance, in its memorial of Belle Tutaev, independently printed that \u201cat age 11, she won a scholarship to study at Wolmer\u2019s Girls School in Kingston.\u201d<\/p>\n      <h2>Sources<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"rule\"><\/div>\n      <ul class=\"src wt-sources\">\n        <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/feb\/14\/belle-tutaev-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian, 14 February 2019<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyalliance.org.uk\/news-events\/news\/memory-belle-tutaev-founder-alliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Early Years Alliance, In memory of Belle Tutaev<\/a><\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n  <\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profile Belle Tutaev, Wolmer\u2019s school in Kingston, OBE The Guardian of 14 February 2019, in its obituary of Belle Tutaev, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trust-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}