A Victorian Christmas

Today, Year 5 were transported back to the Victorian days when we visited Beaulieu Palace House.
Thank you to everyone at home with the help with our costumes - we looked brilliant!

When we arrived, we took a trip on the Veteran Bus to the Palace House. We particularly enjoyed this because it had an open top upper deck and Miss Dickinson got to practise her selfie skills...

Obviously, after all that tomfoolery, it was time to get back to business as we became Victorian children seeking employment at the Palace House. We learnt all the skills we would need to be useful maids and footmen - this would've been important in the Victorian times because after the age of 10, children were sent out to work. (Luckily, chimney sweeping by children was banned during the Victorian age!)

After our grand tour, during which we took in so much fascinating information, it was time for lunch. Back to the Victorian classroom for us! (A particular shout out to parents here as some children had truly brought a Victorian lunch!)

After lunch, we went back to the drawing room at the Palace House to enjoy some traditional Victorian Christmas entertainment. Unfortunately, this did involved some terrible dancing by the adults - but we enjoyed laughing!

All the children were impeccably behaved - what a great day we had!