What can we learn about the past from a photo?

What do you think it is?

Who do you think used it?

When do you think it was used?

Let's watch a video to find out more information about our item to see if we can gather anymore clues.

Well done if you knew that it was a school desk!!

This desk is from the Victorian period, which was when Queen Victoria was on the throne between 1837 and 1901. So this desk is around 150 years old!!! That's older than Mrs Fernandes (just!)

Your first task is to write three questions you would like to ask a Victorian school child about what school was like for them all that time ago?

Remember, your questions can start with any of these words:

Now it's your turn to find out some information that might be helpful in answering your questions. Click on the picture below.

Just like last week, we are going to write sentences to compare what school was like in the past with what it is like today.

Use these sentence openers to help:

They are similar because...

They are different because...

In the past schools/children were...

Today schools/children are...

If you are working at home, email a picture of your work to your teacher to share with the rest of the class.