Victorian Christmas

about this session

Key stage 1 and Key stage 2 | Subject: History | Topic: Victorians | Session type: Route-based and classroom

What did Victoria do at Christmas? Find out how celebrations changed from her childhood and throughout the period that she reigned.

Through song, stories, games and object-handling, children will explore the development of Christmas from the Georgian period to the introduction in Victorian times of activities and festivities that are still carried out today.

Learning objectives

Children will:

• Discover that many current Christmas traditions have their beginnings in the Victorian period.
• Find out that before the Victorians, Christmas was more of a celebration centred on religion.
• Discover how the celebration of Christmas became more accessible to ordinary people.

National Curriculum links

This session supports:

History

• Exploring the lives of significant individuals in the past (Queen Victoria).
• Understanding historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance.

Booking Information

Availability

Thursday 21November
Wednesday 4 December
Thursday 5 December
Friday 6 December
Wednesday 11 December
Thursday 12 December
Friday 13 December

11.00, 12.15, 13.45

Duration
60 minutes

Capacity
Up to 35 students

Price
£104 per session (includes admission)