Why do we live longer now than 200 years ago?

As part of our history topic, The Victorians, we visited St John's Church and graveyard to collect data for our research.

As well as collecting data from gravestones, we were shown the register of burials from the church to help with our research.

Sharon, the vicar, even helped Lucas, Eve and Isabelle find details of their own baptisms in the register of baptisms.

Victorians Alive

On Tuesday, year 6 visited the Thackray Medical Museum to find out what life was like for people during Victorian times.

Part of the day involved a workshop, where the children used artefacts to discover information about the lives and families of characters who lived during this era.  Following this, they visited the Victorian Street o experience this first hand. 



The children answers questins to show what they already know about the Victorians.




Some of the artefacts they used.



Explaining to each other what they found out.

Alice Finch was one of the characters we foud out about.



Could this be Alice Finch?





Which is the real James Wilson?



Thomas Sowden was a night soil man.
We discovered what this unpleasant job was.

John Oddy, the slaughterhouse boy, had a dreadful childhood
which led to many problems for him!

The second part of our visit involved exploring the museum to look for answers to the question:
'Why do we live longer now than we did 150 years ago?'

Sports Leaders

Year 6 are training to be young leaders in PE lessons. 

The Young Leader Award is a programme of leadership training for young people between the ages of nine and 13 that promotes them working with younger children, teaching leadership skills through a range of games and activities.