On Tuesday 16th February, Mr Webster came into our classroom and told us that he was going to turn our classroom into a workhouse. He shut all the blinds and we had to sit in silence and count porridge oats. He told us that if we talked then we would not be given anything to eat for 24 hours! We had our hands inspected and if they were not clean we had to do extra chores. Ms Sokoni was fired because she was not doing her job properly! Of course this was all just pretend. The reason that he did this was to show us what life in the workhouse would have been like for children back in the beginning of the Victorian period, before school became compulsory. It was a good way of showing us how children would have been treated. We felt as if our rights had been taken away from us and we did not like how strict our master (Mr Webster) was. It was also very boring. We are looking forward to exploring how the lives have changed for the better in the coming weeks.
The Workhouse Comes to Year 5!
18 February 2016This term our topic is Childhood Through the Ages. To begin this topic we looked at the lives of children at the Victorian period. One of the activities we did was turning our classroom into a workhouse. Take a look at our photos and read more...
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17 March 2016
posted by Danaya
It was fun doing this learning. We learnt about what is was like to be a Victorian child in a Work House.
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10 March 2016
posted by Jamel vidal
Hi that's me sorting oats one by one I loved doing that. It was so funny I had a blast hahahahahahhahahah well done Mr Webster.
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22 February 2016
posted by Khalid
I loved when Mr Webster came to dove class and pretended he was the workhouse master.