Key Stage 2

History KS2 Unit 11 - What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain?

In this unit children find out about the lives of Victorian children, how attitudes towards children changed, and the people who are remembered for their part in these changes. Children develop their understanding of the concept of change and continuity and their sense of period, by looking at the characteristic features of children's lives in the Victorian period. They build on their understanding of chronology by locating the Victorian period within a time framework, and by sequencing changes within the period.

OTHER RESOURCES

• A portrait of Queen Victoria and her family.


• Information on Victorian children at work, eg contemporary engravings, extracts from contemporary authors, factory and mine reports.


• Information on Lord Shaftesbury and Dr Barnardo, eg textbooks, pack from Barnardo's on Victorian Britain.


• Information on Victorian schools, eg extracts from stories, school logbooks, inspection reports.


• Information on Victorian leisure, eg games, toys, posters, books, songbooks of children at work in factories and mines.


• Contemporary novels, eg novels by Kingsley, Dickens.


• A class time line.