On Wednesday we went on a class trip to Scotland Street School. When we arrived the first thing we did was get split up from the girls so the boys went right and then the girls went to the left. The next thing we had to do was go up the stairs and into an old fashioned changing room where we could hang up our coats and put on waistcoats and collars. After that a man told us about the safety procedures and then reminded us all that it was all acting. Finally we had to line up and the actress who was playing a Victorian teacher came out and told us in a very strict voice to be quiet and then told us where to sit and she said that we should always call her ma’am. The boys had to sit next to girls but some girls had to sit next to another girl because there was more girls than boys and I had to sit next to Pippa. The teacher then told us that we had to sit with our feet flat on the ground and our arms crossed under the table and to face the front.

 

The first lesson we did was Math. We had to recite our 2 to 5 times table like this: 2 nothings are nothing, 2 1s are 2, 2 2s are four etc and then she asked us individual multiplication questions. She drew a clock face on the black board and then wrote a number in the middle of it. We had to multiply the clock face number by the middle number. For example if 2 was in the middle of the clock and she pointed to 5, you would have to reply: 10 ma’am.

 

After that we did a quick test with Maths questions on a slate and most people only got 1 or 2 out of 5 because the questions were quite hard, 1 of the questions was: If I walk in a field and there is 10 humans , 1 horse and 1 dog how many legs were there in the field? I know you might think that is easy but the answer is actually 30 because you need to count your legs as well!

 

The next thing we did was handwriting and that was interesting because we got to use proper ink that we had to dip the pen in. What we had to do was write out the date in Victorian writing which is like script writing and it is all joined up then we had to write the alphabet using the Victorian style as well. Finally, we had to write out our name on the piece of paper in Victorian writing. When they had been handed in the teacher rang a bell and said that we were not in 1883 anymore, we were back in 2016!

 

She told us her name and then we discussed the similarities and differences between the Victorian class and a class in 2016. By the end of the day we had all learned something.

 

After the discussion the actress dressed up as a janitor of a school and were all of a sudden back in the Victorian times. The janitor did P.E with us and the P.E was very easy, all we had to do was touch our head then put our arms up in the air and then touch our shoulders and we had to repeat that several times. Once we had finished we got the chance to ask some questions.

 

We all really enjoyed the trip and I would definitely recommend going there!