Transcript Childhood in Tudor times - Dulwich Hamlet Junior School

Childhood in Tudor times
By Kirsty & Alice
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Children’s clothing in Tudor times.
Chores and discipline in Tudor times.
The games played in Tudor times.
Going to school in Tudor times.
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Children’s clothing in Tudor times
In rich children’s clothing different layers of material were
common, even from a young age. Girls always wore
dresses, underneath the top layer on the petticoat whale
bone to give the girl a thin shape round the waist. All of
the rich children’s clothes were made of fine silk and
fabric. Poor children’s clothing was very different to rich
children’s clothing. Poor girls wore dresses but they were
not as fine as the rich clothing. It was something quite old
and not made of silk and fine fabric, but cotton and
thread. A satchel would go round the neck.
Discipline and Chores in Tudor times
In rich families they would have a person called “ The whipping boy”.
If the rich child was naughty the whipping boy would get whipped.
In a Tudor school there are punishments too. One punishment would
be the dreadful dunce hat which was a big cone hat with a fat “D”
on the front. You could also be whipped with birch wood, for
making mistakes or not answering questions correctly.
Games played in Tudor times
You could have games made of wood ,clay, stone and animal bone.
Girls and boys played with dolls, hoops from old barrels, footballs
made out of a pigs bladder and pebbles and cherry stones for
marbles. Backgammon, Skittles and hopscotch were very popular.
They would also make waterslides out of wood then slide down the
river.
Going to school in Tudor times
Rich boys only went to school, but some girls were educated. They
had three years in nursery, then when to grammar school at the age
of seven. In Tudor times school started at six or seven o’clock in the
morning, but some children didn’t live that close to there school so
they had to walk five of six miles to get to school.
Lunch was eleven o’clock am. Afternoon lessons lasted from one to
five o’clock. Sadly they only two holidays Easter and Christmas. The
first school children attended, was the petty school where they
learned to read and write.
While in grammar school they learn Latin and English as the main
subjects.
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