Year 5 staff and children at Westbury Junior School brought the Victorian era to life when they held a Victorian Day where both staff and children dressed up to experience a school day from the 1800s.

Surrounded by maps of the British Empire and with some very strict school rules, the school hall was transformed and the children were dressed to represent the class differences of the time; from poor chimney sweeps to rich children of the local mills.

The children gained first-hand experience of what the lessons would have been like with repetition of poetry and times tables aloud, handwriting practice, military drills and still life drawing – all delivered by several very stern teachers.