Victorians at Home
KS1 & KS2
History | English
Travel back in time to the Victorian period using this cross-curricular object handling loans box to explore food and cooking, the life of a servant, toys, fashion, beauty and hygiene in the Victorian period.
Students will have the opportunity to handle genuine and replica artefacts from the museum’s collection. Also included in the box is a teacher’s guide with information on each object, a safe object handling guide and suggested activities.
Teacher notes:
This loans box is ideal for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils to study History
There are two boxes available for this theme. Objects vary slightly between boxes. The box you receive will depend on availability. Details on contents are below.
List of objects in the loans box:
Box 1: 
- vegetable ricer
- moustache cup
- candle holder
- chamber pot
- diabolo
- skipping rope
- spinning top
- marbles
- pieces of ribbon
- bloomers
- handkerchief
- sewing kit
- button hooks
- ribbon sample card
- illustration of Victorian women wearing ribbon
- images of Victorian life
Box 2: 
- butter pat
- potato masher
- iron
- washboard
- candle snuffer
- bar of soap
- scrubbing brush
- diabolo
- skipping rope
- zoetrope
- spinning top
- marbles
- curling tongs
- ribbon pieces
- images of Victorian life
- underskirt
- ribbon sample card
To book, please download the Museum Loans Box booking form (Word).
Fill in the form by selecting the box(es) you would like to order.
Return by email to: ctm.info@cvlife.co.uk
| Curriculum Links |
Learning Outcomes |
| History |
- Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources
- Know where the people and events and events they study fit within a chronological framework and identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods
- Know about significant events and places in their own locality
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| English |
- Participate in discussions and role play
- Draft and write narratives, creating settings, characters and plot
- Learn the conventions of different types of writing e.g. a diary is written in the first person or the use of presentation devices such as numbering and headings in instructions
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| Art |
- Produce creative work, exploring different ideas and record their experiences
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| Science |
- Explore the way light behaves
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| Maths |
- Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as pounds and pints
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To book, please complete an
Enquiry Form
that will be processed by our team. For enquiries, please email ctm.info@cvlife.co.uk or call 02476237521.
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