Our topic for the term is ‘Victorious Victorians'.  Please see below for more detailed information about our learning this term.

Recommended Reading
In our main Literacy lessons we will be studying Street Child by Berlie Doherty.  We have copies to use in class but it would obviously be an advantage for the children to buy or borrow a copy to read at home.
In our Guided Reading lessons, we will be looking at Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce and The Railway Children by E. Nesbit. We will be using the class e readers but children are encouraged to bring in their own paperback copies if they have them.
Other authors include Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson-Burnett, Hilaire Beloc. If you own an ereader, such as a Kindle, many of these authors’ works can be downloaded for free.

Victorians Web-links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/victorians

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase2delivery/Wales/History/Keystage2/TheVictorians/SchoolLifeinWal/Introduction/default.htm

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/20040129/History/Keystage2/ChildreninVicto/Theworkhouse/Introduction/default.htm

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/

Portraits of QV at:

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/painting/gallery/victoria.html

http://www.leightonhall.co.uk/schools/schoolshistory/servants.htm

Virtual Victorians at:

http://telematics.ex.ac.uk/virvic/

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/victoria.htm

http://www.cadburylearningzone.co.uk/history/index.htm

Census (as a spreadsheet – link to ICT) at:

http://ecs.lewisham.gov.uk/talent/pricor/Rushey_Green_Census_1891.xls

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/history/stepback.htm

http://www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk/

http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindex.htm

To go with ‘Victorian Diary’ video and resources at:

http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/V/victoriandiary/

http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/Q/qca/victorians/

http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/hals/victorians.htm

http://www.infed.org/thinkers/barnardo.htm

Census information (London based) at:

http://www.holnet.org.uk/vl/index.htm

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/victorians/finals/teacher_info.html

Scroll down page for:

http://www.historymole.com/cgi-bin/main/schools-uk-ks2.pl

QV Timeline at:

http://www.historymole.com/cgi-bin/main/results.pl?type=theme&theme=BritVictoria

QV Quotes:

http://www.victorianstation.com/queenquotes.htm