Step back in time to live, learn, and work the Victorian way.
Key Stage:
Key stage 2
Price:
£15 per person
Format:
90 mins facilitated, 90 minutes self led
Availability:
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Our fully immersive Victorian experience allows learners to step onto streets from a bygone age, dress up and attend a Victorian school lesson in the Board School room, complete with a strict headmistress.
Learn the three 'Rs' (reading, writing and arithmetic) and experience a school lesson like no other.
Have you got what it takes to join the team at the foundry? The famous Victorian industrialists, the Tasker family, are looking for new recruits to join their Waterloo Ironworks. Learners will dress up in character to tour the foundry, explore the family’s history and learn how to combine science, technology and engineering to build the machines of the future.
Learning Objectives
| To be able to understand how aspects of life and work in Britain changed in Victorian times for adults and children by learning about education and industrial developments through a range of immersive activities and demonstrations using the museum’s collections and displays |
| To be able to recognise that the Victorian period was a time of great ingenuity and philanthropy as well as industrialisation |
To experience what aspects of life and industry during Victorian times were like, including a Victorian Board School, Taskers iron foundry and how workers needed to adapt their skills to work in a new social environment. |
This workshop is adapted from a KS2 programme.
At Hampshire Cultural Trust, we welcome Home School families to our venues for self-led visits throughout the year. We also offer a series of dedicated home education days in which we invite you to travel in time to enjoy an immersive learning experience led by our expert team of facilitators. The sessions take the format of our curriculum-based workshops, though they are more relaxed so that a wider age range of learners can attend with siblings as required.
Things to know prior to booking:
- All children must be accompanied by an adult who is responsible for them at all times, including during facilitated workshops
- In the event of an emergency, you are responsible for the children in your group
- We require at least one adult for every 3 children
- You are responsible for the supervision and behaviour of your children at all times
- If you are looking to book younger/ older siblings into the sessions, please be aware that the content may not be pitched at their current learning level.
- We regret that under 5’s are not permitted at Home Education events at Gosport Museum and Art Gallery.
- These are facilitated sessions and not ‘drop-in’ experiences, so will start promptly according to the scheduled time
- The schedule for the day will be provided prior to arrival
- Lunch slots are fixed, and you will be notified of these within the schedule
- A breakout room will be provided at allocated times for you to bring your own lunch or you are welcome to purchase food from our Café
- Food and drinks are not permitted anywhere on the museum floor or in our immersive Learning Rooms
- Mobile phones and photography are strictly prohibited within the session due to safeguarding
- Our facilitators reserve the right to ask participants to leave if their behaviour is deemed unsafe or inappropriate for the setting
- We advise that participants take a comfort break before the session begins, as children can not be left unsupervised while their accompanying adult takes one child to the toilet.
