CLASS One at Churcher’s College Junior School had a wonderful day learning about how life and materials have changed over time.

The class journeyed to Guildford and back in time to the Victorian age to find out more about what it was like for children 100 years ago.

Having met the school mistress, the children all changed uniform adding waistcoats or pinafores worn by Victorian children.

In the school room the children had to sit on their hands and in silence while the teacher talked. There were lots of differences in the desks, boards and displays of the Victorian classroom. The children then used sugar paper to make a toy hat and slate boards to write their names. Later, in the playroom, there were a vast array of wooden toys including handmade rocking horses from the richest of Victorian homes, to hoops made out of barrel metal and skipping ropes made from window sash pull ropes.

At the end of the morning, everyone had learnt lots about the Victorians and enjoyed a Victorian packed lunch, carried in paper bags and tins, full of food wrapped in paper and tied with string.