P6 travel back in time for our Victorian Day.

This Monday P6 traveled back in time to 1900, in the final years of the Victorian era. From the first bell at 9.00am, we were back in Victorian times, showing the utmost respect for all school staff from fear of a whack with the tawse, a leather strap used for disciplining children or the dunces hat and stool for ridiculing any child that couldn't follow instructions.
We started our day in our new seats and a bible reading, as was common in Victorian times. We then went outside for some PE or 'drill' as it was call. After some strict physical exercises and marching we came back in to work on our handwriting.  We learned a poem by recital, as was often done and then split into boys and girls to learn different lessons.
The boys learned technical drawing as might be used in a careen in engineering or architecture.



The girls, however, learned skills to be used in the home like baking and made biscuits instead.

At the end of they day we said goodbye to our Victorian School. We had some fun with making conkers, as they would have played with back then, and had a little tournament. 

What a fun day in P6!