A Victorian School Experience for Polar Bear Class.

Sevington school opened in 1849 and Miss Squire took up the reins as headmistress eleven years later, aged nineteen.

The curriculum was very basic, with an emphasis on religion, reading, writing and arithmetic. In the afternoons, the girls learnt needlework while boys continued with more of the 3 Rs. The school day was occasionally enlivened with singing, marching and ‘object lessons’, in which children were encouraged to study and draw objects of interest.

Polar Bear class visited the school to find out, first hand, what a day in a Victorian school was like.