Victorian Workhouses - The Workhouse. Before 1834, poor people were looked after by buying food and clothing from money collected from land owners and other wealthy people.
The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, ensured that no able-bodied person could get poor relief unless they went to live in special workhouses. The idea was that the poor were helped to support themselves. They had to work for their food and accommodation. Workhouses were where poor people who had no job or home lived. The Victorian School Day. Although it is best to take pupils to visit a real Victorian School if you can, this is not always possible, perhaps because of the distance or timing, so the next best thing is to create your own Victorian experience.
This article suggests ways in which you can make the experience memorable and as authentic as possible. Ideally it is well to use a room or hall that looks Victorian. This may not be easy in modern schools, but have you considered nearby buildings? A local church may have a suitable room or hall that is not too modernized, or maybe there is a large house that would be prepared to offer a suitable room, a manor house, or a stately home, maybe. But even if this is not available, then a classroom or hall can, with a little effort, be suitably “aged”. Victorians (KS2)
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