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Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebookLesson 1
LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse.
Think/Pair Share: Why do you think the workhouse existed? Was it doing a good thing keeping people off the streets?
The Victorian Workhouse
Victorian England was a hard place to live – the population had risen dramatically and poverty was increasing. Cholera had hit people hard and many children were orphaned. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 had ordered that any able bodied adult or child would only be given handouts if they lived and worked in the workhouses. Explain that in 1861 over 35,000 children were living and working in Victorian workhouses.
to the Victorian era?
LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
The government wanted to make
people fearful of going to the workhouse
LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse.
Year 5 summary of the workhouse
Louis PasteurPrince AlbertDr. Barnado
Use the picture of a child in the workhouse and write a paragraph describing how the child might feel.
Use pictures of the Victorian workhouse and people at work to create a fact page from what you have learnt today.
Consider the purpose of a workhouse. Why were workhouses used so often in Victorian Britain? What made them such a tough place to live? Use pictures to support your writing.
LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse.
Finished? Look into why a man called Dr. Barnado become an important figurehead in Victorian England
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
What are your feelings about children in the Workhouse?
LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
September 21, 2020
Lesson 2 Starter
Think/Pair Share: Why do you think families would have preferred to avoid the workhouse? What else could they have done?
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
Poor children were expected to work as soon as they were able to bring money in for the family. This wasn't new however, children were always expected to work as soon as they could, even before Victorian Britain! Think/Pair Share: How does this differ from nowadays?
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
Lesson 2
"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."
Think/Pair Share: What sort of jobs could children have done in Victorian times? What was the benefit of using children for a rich Victorian employer?
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
Benjamin Disraeli (Victorian Prime Minister)
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
What are the Victorian Jobs for Children?
Paper round Newspapers were made in the 1600s but chn may not have been trusted for this job
Farm Workers children helped tend the gardens of rich landowners
Coal Mines children as young as 5 worked down in the coal mines for up to 12 hours a day
Match dipper Children had to dip the matches in dangerous chemicals
Mill cleaner Children were made to clean the textile mills, even when the machines were still running
Road Sweeper Young boys would sweep the roads of horse dung and rubbish for rich passers
Chimeny Sweep Popular job for boys
Stamp licker & Label Stickers Not a job but chn may have helped out at home
Train Driver Children will have only been responsible for the coal shovelling
Put the jobs children might have done in the Black Box...
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
Sailor boys used to go and work on the ships as 'cabin boys' Housemaid girls would often be given over to rich families to earn money
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
Lesson 2
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
• In the towns everyone wanted to live near his or her work and this caused overcrowding. • Many people could not afford the rents that were being charged and so they rented out space in their rooms to one or two lodgers who paid between two pence and four pence a day. • The children played in the narrow alleys and dark staircases and had very little sunlight. • Children from poor families were sent out to work. A boy of 11 was paid 4 shillings a week to work 43 hours delivering parcels from a chemist's shop. A child of 9 delivered milk for 21 hours a week. • Some children started work at 5am and worked for 3 hours before school. • The longest hours were worked by the lather boys in the barbers’ shops. • Gangs of pauper children were apprenticed in factories and worked very long hours in extremely unsanitary conditions. • This extract is from Our Waifs and Strays March 1903. 'They were fed upon the coarsest and cheapest food, often with the same as that served out to the pigs of their master. They slept by turns and in relays, in filthy beds which were never cool for one set of children were sent to sleep in them as soon as the others had gone off to their daily or nightly toil'.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
Louis PasteurPrince AlbertDr. Barnado
Select one of the jobs we have looked at and create a picture with a description for the display board or select one of the jobs we have looked at and write a vivid description of life in that job.
Finished? How many different jobs can you list that Victorian children may have carried out? Can you explain why children were used for these jobs?
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
‘Poverty – Who would you choose?’
As as a group have a look over the 5 case studies and decide which child you would accept into the ‘ragged school.’
Create a ‘for’ and ‘against’ reasons column and explain why you picked the child you did.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
(Help for the session if any children are interested)
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
Click on the link above to find out more about what it would have been like to be poor in Victorian Britain.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
September 21, 2020
Lesson 2 Plenary
A Little black thing among the snow: Crying weep, weep, in notes of woe! Where are thy father and mother? Say? They are both gone up to the church to pray.
Because I was happy upon the heath, And smil'd among the winter's snow: They cloth'd me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe.
And because I am happy and dance and sing They think they have done me no injury And are gone to praise God and his Priest and King Who make up a heaven of our misery.
Think/Pair Share: How does the poem make you feel? What is Blake saying about the job of a chimney sweeper in Victorian Britain?
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
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LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse.
Think/Pair Share: Why do you think the workhouse existed? Was it doing a good thing keeping people off the streets?
The Victorian Workhouse
Victorian England was a hard place to live – the population had risen dramatically and poverty was increasing. Cholera had hit people hard and many children were orphaned. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 had ordered that any able bodied adult or child would only be given handouts if they lived and worked in the workhouses. Explain that in 1861 over 35,000 children were living and working in Victorian workhouses.
to the Victorian era?
LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
The government wanted to make
people fearful of going to the workhouse
LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse.
Year 5 summary of the workhouse
Louis PasteurPrince AlbertDr. Barnado
Use the picture of a child in the workhouse and write a paragraph describing how the child might feel.
Use pictures of the Victorian workhouse and people at work to create a fact page from what you have learnt today.
Consider the purpose of a workhouse. Why were workhouses used so often in Victorian Britain? What made them such a tough place to live? Use pictures to support your writing.
LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse.
Finished? Look into why a man called Dr. Barnado become an important figurehead in Victorian England
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
What are your feelings about children in the Workhouse?
LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
September 21, 2020
Lesson 2 Starter
Think/Pair Share: Why do you think families would have preferred to avoid the workhouse? What else could they have done?
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
Poor children were expected to work as soon as they were able to bring money in for the family. This wasn't new however, children were always expected to work as soon as they could, even before Victorian Britain! Think/Pair Share: How does this differ from nowadays?
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
Lesson 2
"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."
Think/Pair Share: What sort of jobs could children have done in Victorian times? What was the benefit of using children for a rich Victorian employer?
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
Benjamin Disraeli (Victorian Prime Minister)
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
What are the Victorian Jobs for Children?
Paper round Newspapers were made in the 1600s but chn may not have been trusted for this job
Farm Workers children helped tend the gardens of rich landowners
Coal Mines children as young as 5 worked down in the coal mines for up to 12 hours a day
Match dipper Children had to dip the matches in dangerous chemicals
Mill cleaner Children were made to clean the textile mills, even when the machines were still running
Road Sweeper Young boys would sweep the roads of horse dung and rubbish for rich passers
Chimeny Sweep Popular job for boys
Stamp licker & Label Stickers Not a job but chn may have helped out at home
Train Driver Children will have only been responsible for the coal shovelling
Put the jobs children might have done in the Black Box...
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
Sailor boys used to go and work on the ships as 'cabin boys' Housemaid girls would often be given over to rich families to earn money
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
Lesson 2
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
• In the towns everyone wanted to live near his or her work and this caused overcrowding. • Many people could not afford the rents that were being charged and so they rented out space in their rooms to one or two lodgers who paid between two pence and four pence a day. • The children played in the narrow alleys and dark staircases and had very little sunlight. • Children from poor families were sent out to work. A boy of 11 was paid 4 shillings a week to work 43 hours delivering parcels from a chemist's shop. A child of 9 delivered milk for 21 hours a week. • Some children started work at 5am and worked for 3 hours before school. • The longest hours were worked by the lather boys in the barbers’ shops. • Gangs of pauper children were apprenticed in factories and worked very long hours in extremely unsanitary conditions. • This extract is from Our Waifs and Strays March 1903. 'They were fed upon the coarsest and cheapest food, often with the same as that served out to the pigs of their master. They slept by turns and in relays, in filthy beds which were never cool for one set of children were sent to sleep in them as soon as the others had gone off to their daily or nightly toil'.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
Louis PasteurPrince AlbertDr. Barnado
Select one of the jobs we have looked at and create a picture with a description for the display board or select one of the jobs we have looked at and write a vivid description of life in that job.
Finished? How many different jobs can you list that Victorian children may have carried out? Can you explain why children were used for these jobs?
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
‘Poverty – Who would you choose?’
As as a group have a look over the 5 case studies and decide which child you would accept into the ‘ragged school.’
Create a ‘for’ and ‘against’ reasons column and explain why you picked the child you did.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
(Help for the session if any children are interested)
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
Click on the link above to find out more about what it would have been like to be poor in Victorian Britain.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
September 21, 2020
Lesson 2 Plenary
A Little black thing among the snow: Crying weep, weep, in notes of woe! Where are thy father and mother? Say? They are both gone up to the church to pray.
Because I was happy upon the heath, And smil'd among the winter's snow: They cloth'd me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe.
And because I am happy and dance and sing They think they have done me no injury And are gone to praise God and his Priest and King Who make up a heaven of our misery.
Think/Pair Share: How does the poem make you feel? What is Blake saying about the job of a chimney sweeper in Victorian Britain?
LO: I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian children would have carried out.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
music hall video 3mins.m3u
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