Year 6 trip to Reading Museum

Year 6 visited Reading Museum on Friday 27 September as part of their studies of the Victorians. The girls dressed up in Victorian costume for the day and there was a great sense of anticipation as they and headed off to the Museum to learn all about life in the Victorian era, its industries and what life was like for Victorian school children.

The day started with an initial discussion about the Victorian era and the impact of Reading’s own industries on Victorian children. The girls then went into the Victorian School Room to take part in an authentic Victorian school lesson.  They learnt how to address the Master at registration: ‘Present, please, Sir’, and how to sit up straight with hands behind backs. Reading, writing and arithmetic was the order of the day.

Other highlights of the visit were learning about the different roles children would undertake if they were servants in a large house and how the invention of the steam engine changed the shape of industry from the countryside into the cities.

All of the girls thoroughly enjoyed the chance to immerse themselves into Victorian life and came away with a much greater understanding of the period. 

Pictures show: The Victorian School Room

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