School Visits.

Experience Victorian school life.

Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre features a beautifully restored Victorian schoolroom where children can step back in time and experience what school life was really like over 100 years ago. Especially popular with visiting schools, the interactive classroom allows children to dress in Victorian-style clothing, role-play as Victorian pupils and take part in authentic lessons led by our Victorian Headmaster.

Seated at original wooden desks, pupils can practise writing with ink and feather pens, learn arithmetic using pounds, shillings, and pence, and recite times tables by rote (memorisation technique based on repetition), just as Victorian children once did. The hands-on experience brings history to life in a fun and memorable way, helping children understand how very different schooldays were in the 19th century.

school girl re-enacting victorian life
old victorian school class photo
victorian school setup
victorian teacher greeting pupils re-enactment
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victorian teacher at front of class with pupils re-enactment
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class of school children answering teacher's questions in victorian re-enactment
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What people say…

  • “Thank you so much for our visit last Friday. It was so exciting for the children, they really enjoyed it. The sessions were spot on for our year group and gave them exactly the experience I had hoped for. The school room looked wonderful and the outfits were great”  

    Stockingford Academy

  • "Great source of information about days gone by, especially school days."

    John Parnell, Google Reviews

FAQs.

  • The Victorian school room can accommodate a maximum of 35 students for each session.

  • We conduct sessions either in the morning or afternoon, each session takes around 2 hours.

  • The school room uses original slates, dip ink pens and students can dress up in traditional clothing of the period. There is role-play with a Victorian schoolmaster/mistress.

  • Not at all, many schools come in their school uniform, it is your choice but it can help the children get into character for the day.

  • Yes this can be arranged, call the Heritage Centre for further details.

  • We currently charge from £35 per class.

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