Schools in Victorian Times

www.ltscotland.org.uk/
scottishhistory/
industrialrevolution/dailylife/
Education/index.asp

A Powerpoint presentation about schools in the Industrial era in Scotland.

What were the differences in education for lower, middle and upper class children?

What were Victorian classrooms like?

Do the quiz on page12 to see if you have been a good pupil.

www.nettlesworth.
durham.sch.uk/time/
victorian/vschool.html

Information about Victorian schools.

Would you have liked to go to a Victorian school? Why?

Would you have liked to be a teacher in Victorian times? Why? What was a dunce’s cap?

http://woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/
Homework/victorians/
children/schools.htm

Some of your questions about Victorian Schools answered.

What would you like to know about Victorian Schools?

www.learningcurve.gov.uk/
snapshots/snapshot29/
snapshot29.htm

The introduction of Victorian School Dinners.

Original reports and photographs. Why were school dinners introduced?

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
victorians/flash.shtml

Children of Victorian Britain .

Go to Schools.

Games to play.

Click on Learning to watch the movie or read extracts from a Victorian log book.

Click on Games to try to find the four items that do not belong in the Victorian school room.

www.channel4.com/learning/
microsites/V/victoriandiary/
home1.htm

Victorian Diary

Can you spot Susan’s spelling and punctuation mistakes in her Victorian school diary?

www.victorians.org.uk/

Information about Victorian schools and pictures of objects.

Go to Themes Gallery, then Education and Science or Childhood. Read about why more children started going to school.

Click on the objects on the right hand side of the page to investigate them.

www.headlinehistory.org.uk/
index.htm#

Read an interactive Victorian newspaper with sound and film. From your interviews write your own front page story.

Click on Start Here

Click on the coloured part of the map.

Pick the Victorian era.

Pick a skill level

Pick a story. Write your version.