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Year 2 – Victorian Workhouse Research

Use the Powerpoint below to do some independent research about a Victorian Workhouse. Write a comment about what you learn.

85 responses to “Year 2 – Victorian Workhouse Research”

  1. Maximilian J.

    That there was no electricity 📡🔋.

  2. Liliana S.

    The Victorian had. To. Clin the flors. And to eet. qoridj

  3. Muhammed I.

    Victory people made 🚊

    1. Mr Mahmood

      What was it like working in a workhouse?

    2. Muhammed I.

      Trains

  4. Latifa A.

    Haseeb and LatifaA
    I Leant workhouse rule
    I leant your not aloud to play card game or other game

    1. Mr Carter

      What punishments did they get for breaking rules?

  5. Liyana M.

    Liyana Duaa A workhouse was a bilding that the very poorest people use to live and work in

  6. Nabira M.

    I n the Victorian times they eat porridge.

    1. Mrs Penavega

      Well done. Do you know what it was called?

  7. Freya S.

    The Victorian kids had to ate yucky food

    1. Mrs Penavega

      What kind of food?

  8. Jasmine P.

    The Children had to clean 🧼 the room and the toilets 🚽

    1. Mrs Penavega

      Good comment. Why did the children have to do jobs?

  9. Aiyla S.

    The children had to clean up the room and eat disgusting food 🥘.

    1. Mrs Penavega

      Good research. What kind of food did they eat?

  10. Tala I.

    The children didn’t enjoy the workhouse

  11. Aesha M.

    Victorians workt hard

    1. Aesha M.

      👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    2. Mr Mahmood

      What food did they receive in the workhouse?

  12. Aurora H.

    Victoryns worked in a wkshp because they wer poor

    1. Mr Mahmood

      Do you think they were treated fairly?

  13. Elim F.

    Lots of children slep in one room

    1. Elim F.

      in the Victorian times they eat porridge

    2. Mrs Penavega

      What were the rooms called?

  14. Aesha M.

    What type did they do

  15. Freya S.

    All the children had to clean the floor and eat yukky food like gruel.

    1. Mrs Penavega

      Do you think that they got enough to eat?

  16. Shayan S.

    I learnt that Victoria poor people didn’t get to go school

    1. Mrs Penavega

      Did you have to pay for school in Victorian times?

  17. Sarah B.

    In the past people workhouses where build so people can live and work🚿.

    1. Mr Carter

      What did they do in the workhouses? Who went there?

    2. Sarah B.

      They work in it🧽👔.

    3. Maryum N.

      Workers ended in 1903
      And they used ruff clothes to wear *Victorian times

      1. Mr Mahmood

        What did they eat in the workhouses?

  18. Noah M.

    If you do something so bad and do the opposite of the rules of the workhouse you might go put in prison.

    1. Mr Carter

      It wasn’t a very nice place was it. Who was sent to workhouses?

  19. Yusuf A.

    In the past people work in works houses because they were poor and they had no money. Poor people ate gruel which tasted disgusting.

    1. Mr Mahmood

      Well done! How did your gruel taste?

  20. Hannah B.

    In the Victorian times boys cleaned floors and they ate porridge.Boys and girls lived on roads they also ate cheese and bread
    Zak and hannah

    1. Mr Mahmood

      Do you think they were treated fairly?

  21. Bilal U.

    Oliver.is. treated. badly. because. he. is an orphan. Natan and Lili

  22. Elgin A.

    More then 300s boys could be in a workhouse.
    Elgin and Neron

    1. Mr Carter

      What would you find the worst part of being in a workhouse?

  23. Sulaiman A.

    The workhouse was built fir the very poorest people and the had to work .

    1. Mrs Penavega

      Super research Sulaiman. What kind of work did the children do?

    2. Naksh P.

      They did chimny cleaning when they were seven

      1. Naksh P.

        The workhouse ended in 1930

  24. Mustafa A.

    A workhouse was a building that the very poorest people used to live and work in.

    1. Mrs Penavega

      Well done. Was the workhouse nicely furnished and warm?

  25. Aadyan W.

    Everyone had to eat gruel and they were locked in there bedrooms because they didn’t want them escaping.

    1. Mrs Penavega

      Why did they want to escape?

  26. Mustafa A.

    In the Victorian time they had strict teachers

    1. Mrs Penavega

      How were the teachers strict?

  27. Zakariyah A.

    I have learned that poor people don’t have the chance to have nice clothes because they don’t have any money.

  28. Advika B.

    Advika and Saalihah learns the people were so poor and they haded to work because they had no money.

  29. Emraan A.

    In workhouses we like clean floor or walls we eat food and soup there were first build about 400 years ago in the past workhouses come poor because only vicoren school are the poor if the man family’s come and take them in to their house. Emraan and ziyaan

    1. Mr Carter

      Thank you for the information. Please make sure that you use full stops to end sentences.

  30. Roshaan K.

    In the past people workhouses where build So people can Live and Work.
    Roshaan and Khadija

    1. Mr Carter

      A good fact.
      What type of jobs did they do in the workhouse?

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