Victorian Schools

Victorian Schools

W.A.L.A: Schools for the poor

L.O: Group 1-Describe the Victorian schools for the poor

Group 2-Compare Victorian schools to present day Kenyan schools

A typical Victorian classroom

• In the early years of Victoria's reign almost no poor children went to school and laws such as the 1844 Factory Act were made to improve education for poor children

• There were different type of schools for poor children such as :

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  (a)- Dame School - were set up by women who were most likely themselves poor and were more similar to babysitters than teachers.

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  (b)- Ragged schools- were set up to provide free basic education to orphans and very poor children.They were run by churches and often had a foundation of charity and religion

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  (c)-Factory school-Classes were held in factories during working hours

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  (d)-National school-Churches which used one teacher and lots of monitors(older students) to teach hundreds of children at a time

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1870-Education For all

• The Education Act of 1870 stated that all children between the ages of 5 and 13 were supposed to go to school but they'd still have to pay a small amount of money.

• In 1881 it became compulsory for all children to go to school which meant that the government had to make it free.

Additional learning resources

https://youtu.be/TrYOM7qG_oo

https://victorianchildren.org/victorian-schools/