Step back in time to live, learn, and work the Victorian way.
Key Stage:
Key stage 2
Capacity:
35 pupils
Price:
£320
Format:
90 mins facilitated, 60 minutes self led
Availability:
Tuesdays - Fridays during term time
Our fully immersive Victorian experience allows pupils 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.
Pupils will learn the three 'Rs' (reading, writing and arithmetic) as they 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. Pupils 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.
KS2 key curriculum links
- A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066
- A significant turning point in British history - universal schooling for children in England and Wales - the Elementary Education Act 1870
- Science - changes of state; solids, liquids and gases; levers and pulleys
Learning outcomes
| 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. |
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