PH1035/6371 Produced with kind permission of Warwickshire County Record Office and Warwickshire Museum Service
A special Day Project for Key Stages 1 & 2 based at St John's House Museum and the activity centre.
A fantastic opportunity to visit St John's House and celebrate Christmas as the Victorian's would have done
- Participate in a Christmas themed lesson in our Victorian classroom.
- What did the Victorians eat at Christmas? Find out by following a traditional Christmas pudding recipe and then make your own peppermint creams.
- Handle a variety of household objects and find out what working in the kitchen was really like.
- How did the Victorians celebrate Christmas? Sing carols around the tree and have a go at a selection of Christmas art and craft activities - make salt dough ornaments, handle toys and more.
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The visit links directly to KS1 History Unit 1: How are our toys different from those in the past? History Unit 2: What were homes like a long time ago? and KS2 Unit 11:What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain?
It covers the following KS1 & 2 Knowledge, skills and understanding:
- Chronological understanding: 1
- Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past: 2
- Historical interpretation: 3
- Historical enquiry: 4
- Organisation and communication: 5
Learning objectives: Children will learn to
- identify similarities and differences between old toys and new toys
- recognise different rooms and household objects from a long time ago
- compare modern and Victorian schooling
- consider what life was like for children in the past
- collect information from a range of sources and draw conclusions about the Victorian period
- understand that ways of life differed greatly across Victorian society
Learning outcomes: Children will be able to:
- use clues to infer the use of an object
- talk about aspects of home life long ago
- identify distinctive features of a Victorian school
- suggest what Victorian children might have done in their spare time
- suggest what life was like for children living in the past
The following Thinking Skills are also covered:
Information processing: Comparing/contrasting information; Identifying and analysing relationships.
Reasoning: Giving reasons for opinions/actions; Inferring; Making deductions; Using precise language to reason.
Enquiry: Asking questions; Drawing conclusions. |