Towards the end of our Victorians topic we had a school day to discover what it was like to go to a Victorian school room.
We sat in rows and had to do a lot of chanting! We also had to write on to slates. Some people didn't do a very good job. They wore the dunce's hat!
We wrote out some well known proverbs such as 'children should be seen and not heard, silence is golden and manner maketh the man'. To experience what it would have been like to be left handed in Victorian times we all had to write with our opposite hand. This wasn't easy, two children even got the cane from Mrs Dolman.
We got to do some exercise drills but we weren't very good with our left and rights.
Eventually we got to have our Victorian lunch which consisted of jam sandwiches and a delicious Victoria sponge cake baked by Mrs Dolman.
