Did poor Victorians go to school? Victorian schooling. At the start of Queen Victoria’s reign, there were no government-run schools, and
no law saying children had to go to school
. Sons of rich families went to expensive public (fee-paying) schools. They were taught classical subjects like Latin and Greek, and educated to become leaders and statesmen.
Did poor Victorian children have an education?
Poor children sometimes had the opportunity of attending a church school, but these schools had very poor facilities with class sizes of up to 100 children
. However, from 1880 the law changed and all children between the ages of 5 to 10 had to go to school.
What did poor Victorians do?
Poor people could
work in mines, in mills and factories, or in workhouses
. Whole families would sometimes have to work so they’d all have enough money to buy food. Children in poor families would have jobs that were best done by people who weren’t very tall.
How were Victorians educated?
What was life like as a poor Victorian child?
Life for Victorian children was very different from our lives today. Children in rich households had toys to play with and did not have to work, but children in poor households
often had to work long hours in difficult, dangerous jobs
. They didn’t have toys to play with but sometimes made their own.
What did Victorians learn school?
The most important lessons were the ‘three Rs’ –
reading, writing and arithmetic (maths)
. Pupils had to chant things (the times-table facts, for example) out loud until they could do it without making a mistake. Victorian pupils also received lessons in history and geography. Some lessons were called ‘object lessons’.
What did Victorian schools look like?
The windows in a Victorian classroom were high up (to stop pupils looking out of the window) and the rooms were lit by gaslights. As a result, the schoolrooms were gloomy and often stuffy. Sometimes different classrooms were only divided from the others by curtains.
What was a poor Victorian child daily routine?
Poor children often had to work instead of going to school.
Many worked with their parents at home or in workshops, making matchboxes or sewing
. Children could also earn a bit of money as chimney-sweeps, messengers or crossing sweepers like the boy in this picture.
How much did a Victorian child get paid?
Many children got just
5 shillings (25p) a week, or less
. While thousands of children worked down the mine, thousands of others worked in the cotton mills. The mill owners often took in orphans to their workhouses; they lived at the mill and were worked as hard as possible.
What was life like for the poor?
| The Poor The Wealthy | had few luxuries. ate food they could afford to buy worked long hours lived in damp, filthy conditions. Many children died of disease. usually well fed, clean and well clothed. didn’t need to work lived in big houses with servants went on holidays children had expensive toys children went to school |
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How long was a school day in Victorian times?
The School Day
School
began at 9.00am and finished at 5.00pm
. There was a two hour lunch break to allow enough time for children to go home for a midday meal, although in rural areas they might eat at the school.
What were Victorian attitudes to poverty?
For the early part of the Victorian era the predominant idea of poverty was that
it was the individual’s responsibility to keep out of poverty
. If he failed to do this it was assumed that the poverty was the fault of a character defect in the individual rather than as a result of economic forces beyond his control.
Did the Victorian children go to school?
At the start of the Victorian era, most children worked long days to support their families. School was not free and only richer families could send their children to school. Some rich children would be taught at home by a governess.
With no school to go to
, many children hung around the streets.
What would a Victorian girl wear to school?
The normal schoolgirl dress would be knee length and be of a dark cotton or woollen material, often black and would be worn with long black stockings
. The shoes would be flat and boot like. Girls did not wear the mob cap (sometimes wrongly called a mop cap) as this was worn by servant girls.
Did children live in workhouses?
Organisation of a workhouse
The men, women, and children were all housed separately. Children were only allowed to spend a brief amount of time a week with their parents. However,
most children in a workhouse were orphans
. Everyone slept in large dormitories.
What was it like being a Victorian child?
Children worked very long hours with little breaks and no fresh air
. They often worked in very dangerous conditions resulting in injuries or even death. There was no education for the poor, so it was very unlikely they could get better paid jobs when they were older.
How were the poor treated in Victorian England?
The poor often lived in unsanitary conditions, in cramped and unclean houses, regardless of whether they lived in a modern city or a rural town.
Victorian attitudes towards the poor were rather muddled
.
What was 10 rules in a Victorian classroom?
| 1. Students must stand up to answer questions and wait for permission to speak | 8. Students must not ask questions. | 9. Talking and fidgeting will be punished. | 10. Children who are truant (late), behave badly or do poor work will be caned. |
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What time did Victorians go to bed?
What were the 3 poor laws?
The poor were classified in 3 brackets:
a) The able poor who would work b) The able poor who would not work c) The poor who could not work, including children
. The 1563 provisions meant that those who could (and would) work received some assistance in their own home: outdoor relief.
How were the poor treated in the 1800s?
For the first half of the 19th century the rural and urban poor had much in common:
unsanitary and overcrowded housing, low wages, poor diet, insecure employment and the dreaded effects of sickness and old age
.
What did a poor Victorian girl wear?
Poor Victorian women wore
thin dirty dresses
which were dark colours and made from cotton or wool because silk and linen would be far too expensive and wouldn’t last as long as they needed them to last for ages.
What was it like for poor Victorians?
The poor
often lived in unsanitary conditions, in cramped and unclean houses
, regardless of whether they lived in a modern city or a rural town. Victorian attitudes towards the poor were rather muddled.
What were Victorian slums like?
It was reported that the main features of slum life were ‘
squalor, drunkenness, improvidence, lawlessness, immorality and crime
‘. Such stories made readers feel as though part of their city was like the Wild West.
