What was school like if you were five or six years old in the past? Discover the games of the playground and try out an infant lesson in the kindergarten. 

This activity provides younger children (Reception and Year 1) with a traditional school experience. The session will begin outside with a playground game. When the bell rings, children will line up, one row of girls, one of boys. They will be taken into the kindergarten classroom where the lesson will include reading, handwriting using slates, maths and chalk drawing inspired by the nature table and poem. 

The activity will be led by a museum staff member in character as a late Victorian/Edwardian teacher, who will explain that children are expected to work quietly and sensibly. They will, however, take a much softer approach than that adopted in the Victorian Lesson activity for older children offered by the museum! 

This activity enables children to 

• Understand what school life was like 100 years ago. 
• Identify similarities and differences between school life today and school life in the past. 

Target Age: Reception and Key Stage 1

Activity Cost: £50 (admission costs apply)

Duration: 50 minutes

Group size: Full class

Season: All year

To book and to find out more: email bookings@beamish.org.uk or phone 0191 370 4026.