Victorian School research

As we are showing how schools have changed and developed over time, we are performing a small movement scene that is repeated and cannoned throughout. I've done some research into what victorian schools were like as it may help with our uderstanding on what the schools were like.

"There were maps and perhaps pictures on the wall. There would be a globe for geography lessons, and an abacus to help with sums. Children sat in rows and the teacher sat at a desk facing the class. At the start of the Victorian age, most teachers were men, but later many women trained as teachers.
Children wrote on slates with chalk. They wiped the slate clean, by spitting on it and rubbing with their coat sleeve or their finger! Slates could be used over and over. For writing on paper, children used a pen with a metal nib, dipped into an ink well."

"Discipline in schools was often strict. Children were beaten for even minor wrongdoings, with a cane, on the hand or bottom. A teacher could also punish a child by making them stand in the corner wearing a 'dunce's cap'. Another, very boring, punishment was writing 'lines'. This meant writing out the same sentence (such as 'Schooldays are the happiest days of my life' 100 times or more."

Information found from : http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/victorian_schools/

here is a photo of a class in the victorian days.