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Bring the strict routines and discipline of a Victorian classroom to life with our Victorian School Discover Box. Packed with replica objects—including slates, chalks, copybooks, finger stocks and cane—this box helps pupils explore how Victorian values shaped learning, behaviour, and classroom culture. Learners try traditional handwriting, investigate historical punishments, and compare past expectations with modern schooling. Through hands on role play and object-based enquiry, pupils develop historical empathy, strengthen descriptive language, and deepen their understanding of how education has transformed over time. A vivid way to immerse classes in the sights, rules and routines of Victorian school life.
The Victorian School Discover Box includes the following items:
- Teacher resources: ‘The Victorian Schoolday’ book, ‘Children in Victorian Times’ book
- Sets of 19th Century style dip pens with steel nibs, ink, blotting paper, slates and slate pencils
- Copy books
- Framed picture of Queen Victoria
- Bamboo cane
- Two sets of finger stocks
- Victorian schoolboy outfit (shirt, collar, tie, waistcoat, trousers to fit approximately age five to six)
- Victorian schoolgirl outfit (dress, pinafore, sunbonnet to fit approximately age five to six)
- Two photographs of Victorian classes
- 24 illustrations of Victorian life with notes
- Victorian classroom ‘old and new’ matching game
The contents of this box are all replicas as we intend children to use them to recreate Victorian school life.
