Howick Historical Village Trip

My favourite thing from Howick Historical Village was when we went to school because I found that that was the whole reason we went: to learn about school in the past, and that was exactly that. Mrs Mills (the teacher) was strict but was kind in some ways.

Outside, there was a girls line and a boys line and the girls went in first. Mrs Mills started talking strictly before we even got into the classroom. The year we were pretending to be in was 1850.

Inside, after Mrs Mills got us seated she started to talk to us about Queen Victoria and how she was going to rule so many countries. Queen Victoria lived in her castle in Great Britan, England and Ireland from 20th of June 1837 till 22 January 1901 when she died. Queen Victoria was only 18 when she became Queen. She ruled over Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Ireland and of course England and others.

Secondly we had to do handwriting and write:  
whatever you do, do it well.  It was a bit hard writing cursive writing because we were writing with different pens than usual and we had to have it perfect and we don’t normally do handwriting anymore.

After that we had a spelling test: girls vs boys. The Scorekeeper was Kilisitina and the girls ended up winning: 11-4.

The last thing we did before we went out was we learned about money in the past and what money children liked to have and what money fathers liked to have. Children liked to have pennies and fathers liked to have notes so they could put it into his jacket and it would make him feel rich.

Everyone was amazed to see that Mrs Mills wasn’t scary but just talked really strictly because all the other classes said that Mrs Mills was scary and was really mean but she wasn’t.

I don’t think I would have liked to go to school in the past because the teachers are very strict and the rules were very strict as well like there was a rule that you are not allowed to write with their left hand and if we did we got whacked with the rope.

My favourite part of school was learning about Queen Victoria and how many countries
she ruled because it was cool to not only learn about school in the past but also learn about Queens in the past.