Victorian Day

On Thursday 13th February,  Year 5 had a victorian day to celebrate the end of our topic. We were joined by Trcia from Creative Histories who really helped us bring the day to life.
In the morning,  we learnt about a rich Victorian family and did object drawing, Victoran PE and waltzing. It was hard but fun.
The afternoon was great fun, we had a carousel of activities that included writing with a pen and ink, shopping in a market with shillings,  making a victorian tea and creating a poor victorian childs toy.
We had a really great day and enjoyed all of it!
We hope you like our pictures below.

Year 5 Victorian fun!

We have had a fun-filled couple of weeks in year 5! Last week, we visited SEARCH Gosport Historical museum to find out more about class differences in Victorian Britain. As part of this trip we were able to handle Victorian artefacts and even role play as the servants and masters/mistresses! Some of the children were even able to fully dress up in Victorian costume, while the class was taught about all the different articles of clothing which would have been worn!





This week, we have experienced a day in the life of a Victorian school child. The whole class dressed up in Victorian outfits and we followed the timetable of a Victorian school, including learning how to convert between farthings, pennies and shillings! The children were apparently most shocked about how strict Miss Starling, Mrs Martin and Mrs Meddings really could be!





We also performed our dance inspired by Victorian machines in the factories and retold the poem 'The Highwayman' with actions!





We would like to thank all of the adults both in school and at home that helped us to have so much fun these last two weeks!

Victorian art!

In year 5, we have been getting to grips with William Morris designs and having a go at producing our own William Morris inspired designs, using tile printing techniques! We had lots of fun creating our tiles, which have resulted in some fantastic prints!

Year 1 Manor Farm!

Year 1 had a great time at Manor Farm! We spent the day working on the farm and had the chance to milk a cow as well as see and learn lots about the other animals. We also went into the Victorian house and did some washing using a Victorian mangle! Afterwards we went into the Victorian school room and had to behave very sensibly otherwise Miss Stubbs got a bit cross! We then couldn't wait to play in the park and lots of us were a bit muddy! A great day had by all, well done Year 1 for brillant behaviour! Year 1 parents are invited into our assembly to find out more on Thursday 7th April at 2.45pm. We hope to see you there.

Year 5 are machines!

We are well on the way to putting together our Victorian dance inspired by the machines of the industrial revolution! We thought we would give you a sneak preview before our performance later this half term!