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Holly Hill Church School, Birmingham

Fir Class visited Hartlebury Toy Museum

17th Jan 2019

We had an amazing day learning about Victorian toys and life in the Victorian times at Hartlebury Castle. 

We needed to handle the toys very gently because many of the toys were over 100 years old. We learned about the different types of toys that children in Victorian times would have played with. We thought about how these toys were the same and how they were different to the toys we have today. We learned what the toys were made from.

We looked around the museum. In the scullery we learned how people in the Victorian times washed their clothes and cooked their food. We decided it would be much harder to wash clothes and cook food in the Victorian times. We saw artefacts that had been found in the ground by archaeologists. We even saw a woolly mammoth’s bone!

We went to the blacksmith’s forge where they used to make horseshoes. Then we went to look at the carriages and vardos that the horses pulled. The vardos were painted in wonderful, bright colours. We thought of some adjectives to describe the Vardos and wondered what it would be like to live in one and travel around the country like the Romany Gypsies. 

We visited a Victorian classroom. It was very different to our classroom at school. There were no computers and no whiteboards. The teacher had to write on the blackboard with chalk. The children had to sit very still with very straight backs. The teacher was very strict... Mrs Gallagher really loved being the Victorian teacher! But we all decided that we really love our school and wouldn’t have enjoyed going to school in Victorian times quite so much!

We learned so many things to inspire us with our learning when we get back to our school.