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Year 4 History Trip to Victorian Schoolroom |
On Monday 20th April, the pupils of year 4 travelled to the Reading Museum for a dazzling time machine trip backwards into the 19th century.
The boys donned waistcoats and Eton collars and listened attentively as our guide explored the world of Victorian Reading and its schoolrooms. Then we marched into the actual Victorian schoolroom itself. Discipline was strict and the boys learned the three R’s by rote: Reading wRiting, aRithmetic. They used slates and slate pencils to calculate a sum in old pounds, shillings and pence. Much ink was spilled in the production of each boy’s copybook. We discovered that left handed writers would have been forced to use their right hands. The dunce cap and the cane also had play in this lesson. After lunch we had an opportunity to experience at first hand the life of Victorian Childhood. Boys put on the clothes of an assortment of servants, gentlemen and ladies and used the actual objects of their daily lives. Group investigations of actual artefacts and finally some popular Victorian parlour games rounded off this most exciting and enjoyable trip.
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