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Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook 1 September 21, 2020 Lesson 1 LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian workhouse. Think/Pair Share: Why do you think the workhouse existed? Was it doing a good thing keeping people off the streets? The Victorian Workhouse Victorian England was a hard place to live – the population had risen dramatically and poverty was increasing. Cholera had hit people hard and many children were orphaned. The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 had ordered that any able bodied adult or child would only be given handouts if they lived and worked in the workhouses. Explain that in 1861 over 35,000 children were living and working in Victorian workhouses.
LO: I understand what life was like in the Victorian
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebookLesson 1
LO:
I understand what life was like in the
Victorian workhouse.
Think/Pair Share: Why do
you think the workhouse
existed? Was it doing a good
thing keeping people off the
streets?
The Victorian Workhouse
Victorian England was a hard place to live – the population had
risen dramatically and poverty was increasing. Cholera had hit
people hard and many children were orphaned.
The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 had ordered that any able
bodied adult or child would only be given handouts if they lived and
worked in the workhouses. Explain that in 1861 over 35,000
children were living and working in Victorian workhouses.
to the Victorian era?
LO:
I understand what life was like in the
Victorian workhouse.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
The government wanted to make
people fearful of going
to the workhouse
LO:
I understand what life was like in the
Victorian workhouse.
Year 5 summary of the workhouse
Louis PasteurPrince AlbertDr. Barnado
Use the picture of a
child in the workhouse
and write a paragraph
describing how the
child might feel.
Use pictures of the
Victorian workhouse
and people at work to
create a fact page from
what you have learnt today.
Consider the purpose of a
workhouse. Why were
workhouses used so often in
Victorian Britain? What
made them such a tough
place to live?
Use pictures to support your
writing.
LO:
I understand what life was like in the
Victorian workhouse.
Finished? Look into why a man called Dr. Barnado become an important figurehead in Victorian England
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
What are your feelings about children
in the Workhouse?
LO:
I understand what life was like in the
Victorian workhouse.
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September 21, 2020
Lesson 2 Starter
Think/Pair Share: Why do you
think families would have
preferred to avoid the workhouse?
What else could they have done?
LO:
I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian
children would have carried out.
Poor children were expected to work as soon as
they were able to bring money in for the family.
This wasn't new however, children were always
expected to work as soon as they could, even
before Victorian Britain!
Think/Pair Share: How does this differ from
nowadays?
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Lesson 2
"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy;
who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings,
as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of
different planets. The rich and the poor."
Think/Pair Share: What sort of jobs could children have done in
Victorian times? What was the benefit of using children for a
rich Victorian employer?
LO:
I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian
children would have carried out.
Benjamin Disraeli (Victorian Prime Minister)
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
What are the Victorian Jobs for Children?
Paper round Newspapers were made in the
1600s but chn may not have been trusted
for this job
Farm Workers children helped tend the gardens
of rich landowners
Coal Mines children as young as 5 worked
down in the coal mines for up to 12 hours a day
Match dipper Children had to dip the
matches in dangerous chemicals
Mill cleaner Children were made
to clean the textile mills, even
when the machines were still
running
Road Sweeper Young boys would sweep
the roads of horse dung and rubbish for
rich passers
Chimeny Sweep Popular job for boys
Stamp licker & Label Stickers
Not a job but chn may have
helped out at home
Train Driver Children will have only been
responsible for the coal shovelling
Put the jobs children might have done in the Black Box...
LO:
I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian
children would have carried out.
Sailor boys used to go and work on the ships as
'cabin boys'
Housemaid girls would often be given over to
rich families to earn money
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
Lesson 2
LO:
I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian
children would have carried out.
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In the towns everyone wanted to live near his or her work and this caused
overcrowding. •
Many people could not afford the rents that were being charged and so they
rented out space in their rooms to one or two lodgers who paid between two
pence and four pence a day. •
The children played in the narrow alleys and dark staircases and had very little
sunlight. •
Children from poor families were sent out to work. A boy of 11 was paid 4
shillings a week to work 43 hours delivering parcels from a chemist's shop. A
child of 9 delivered milk for 21 hours a week.
•
Some children started work at 5am and worked for 3 hours before school.
•
The longest hours were worked by the lather boys in the barbers’ shops.
•
Gangs of pauper children were apprenticed in factories and worked very long
hours in extremely unsanitary conditions. •
This extract is from Our Waifs and Strays March 1903. 'They were fed upon the
coarsest and cheapest food, often with the same as that served out to the pigs of
their master. They slept by turns and in relays, in filthy beds which were never
cool for one set of children were sent to sleep in them as soon as the others had
gone off to their daily or nightly toil'.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
Louis PasteurPrince AlbertDr. Barnado
Select one of the jobs we have
looked at and create a picture
with a description for the
display board or select one of
the jobs we have looked at and
write a vivid description of life
in that job.
Finished? How many different jobs can you list that Victorian children
may have carried out? Can you explain why children were used for these
jobs?
LO:
I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian
children would have carried out.
‘Poverty – Who would you choose?’
As as a group have a look over
the 5 case studies and decide
which child you would accept
into the ‘ragged school.’
Create a ‘for’ and ‘against’
reasons column and explain
why you picked the child you
did.
Victorian workhouses and jobs.notebook
(Help for the session if
any children are interested)
LO:
I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian
children would have carried out.
Click on the link above to
find out more about what it
would have been like to be
poor in Victorian Britain.
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Lesson 2 Plenary
A Little black thing among the snow: Crying weep, weep, in notes of
woe! Where are thy father and mother? Say? They are both gone up to
the church to pray.
Because I was happy upon the heath, And smil'd among the winter's
snow: They cloth'd me in the clothes of death, And taught me to
sing the notes of woe.
And because I am happy and dance and sing They think they have done
me no injury And are gone to praise God and his Priest and King Who
make up a heaven of our misery.
Think/Pair Share: How does the poem
make you feel? What is
Blake saying about the
job of a chimney
sweeper in Victorian Britain?
LO:
I can explore some of the jobs that Victorian
children would have carried out.
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