Chalkboards and Chores

What was daily life like for a child living in rural Ireland during Victorian times? This immersive learning experience provides your pupils with an opportunity to find out how they would have lived, worked and played in the past. Join in with some household chores before making your way to Castletown National School to experience an authentic school lesson. Discover who knows how to ‘toe the line’, and what learning by rote entailed before noting down some spellings and completing some simple maths using the class abacus. Following their lesson, the class can enjoy some traditional schoolyard games 

This interactive learning session provides multiple opportunities for young people to engage directly with our museum collections and develop an empathy and understanding of the life of a child in the past.

Key Activities:

• Household chores
• Baking soda bread/pancakes
• Handwriting practice using slates and slate pencils
• Discipline and punishment
• Drill

Price: £60 per class

Key Stage: 1 & 2 

Available to book: 3rd Sept 24 – 30th May 25