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School Room
Experience
Your school hall
or large classroom is converted into a Victorian
schoolroom complete with wooden benches, abacus,
blackboards, slates, dip pens, Victorian pennies and
many genuine Victorian educational artefacts
including scholars’ work, medals, certificates and
school log book.
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Your pupils are
invited to become history detectives
interpreting evidence of similarities and
differences between Victorian education and
their own.
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A dip pen activity
in which children study and report on extracts
from genuine log books using dip pens and ink
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Role play in which
children are taught by a “Victorian school
inspector” who guides them through a series of
Victorian lessons including recitation,
handwriting on slates, reading, mathematics,
drill and object lessons including demonstration
and explanation of a working steam model.
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A Victorian play
time in which children can recover from the
strict regime of the classroom and play with a
range of traditional toys and games including
wooden and iron hoops, spillikins, cups and
balls, skipping ropes and board games.
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Servants Work Experience
Your school hall
is transformed into the “Squire’s House.” Children
are introduced to the demands made of Victorian
servants and they are warned of the consequences of
failing to find employment on leaving school. They
are led through the rooms of the Squire’s house and
are informed of the tasks required of them in each.
They are also taught about an alternative life as
street traders. Children then participate in a
circuit of activities as they practice the skills
necessary to make them employable as working
Victorian Children.
Activities enable
children to:
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Pump water and launder clothes in the scullery.
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Polish boots, repaint the croquet hoops, and
maintain the Squire’s sports equipment in the
butler’s pantry.
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Make the bed, sweep the rugs, sieve the coal and
carry water in the servants’ bedroom.
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Sieve the flour, cut out pastry, grind coffee
and make ice cream in the kitchen
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Attract the attention of passers by as a chimney
sweep, shoe shiner, crossing sweep or street
trader.
Session length
approximately 80 minutes;
This is a shorter
session than the schoolroom workshop due to the
length of time taken to set up and dismantle
equipment.
A maximum of 35
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