PUPILS at Leigh and Bransford Primary School have been learning all about life in Victorian times.
The school hall was transformed to reflect the era and staff and children dressed up.
The experience started as soon as the pupils arrived with boys and girls entering the school through separate doors and after sitting in their rows and being taught by a teacher who had a cane they played outside in the playground with traditional old toys such as a hoop and stick.
Their Victorian school day included an old fashioned drill lesson instead of modern PE and games and Victorian-style school lessons in the three R’s, reading, writing, and arithmetic.
“We have had Victorian Days before and the children always enjoy them. It’s learning history through experiencing it,” said deputy head Andy Searle.
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