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Fleur-dy-Llys Primary History KS2. Victorian Schooldays. Victorian teachers were very strict. Children as young as 13 helped teachers to control the class.They were called ‘pupil teachers’.
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Fleur-dy-Llys Primary History KS2
Victorian teachers were very strict. Children as young as 13 helped teachers to control the class.They were called ‘pupil teachers’. Some teachers had to control classes of over 100 pupils.They were helped by children called ‘monitors’. These children were trained by the HeadTeacher and some were as young as 9 years old.
Classes were so large that pupils all had to do the same thing at the same time. The teacher barked a command and all the children opened their books. On the second command they began copying sentences from the blackboard. Children learnt things by reciting them like parrots. They learnt the three R’s in the morning – Reading, writing, arithmetic.
Victorian teachers believed that all children could learn at the same speed. If they fell behind in their work,they would be punished by being made to stand on a stool in the corner wearing an armband saying DUNCE, and a cone shaped hat with a large D on it.
Children learnt to write on slates. They scratched letters on them with sharpened pieces of slate. Paper was expensive but slate could be used again and again. Children were supposed to bring sponges to clean the slates, but most just spat on them and rubbed them clean with their sleeves. Older pupils used pen and ink to write in copybooks. They were punished (caned) for spilling ink which‘blotted their copybook’.
