YOUNGSTERS at a Blackburn school turned the clock back 100 years to get a taste of life in a Victorian classroom. Children at St Anthony's Primary School, Shadsworth Road, dressed up in period ...

GCSEs belong in the Victoria era along with dunce caps, a leading headteacher has said. Rose Hardy, headmistress at the £19,300-a-year Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, said there is a ...

“They spent the day in the way in which every Victorian child would have done,” said Mrs Pinder. “We did a lot of times table practice, and they all loved the dunce’s hat.

'It's like something from Victorian times when children were made to sit in the corner wearing a dunce hat.' Josie joined the school on Nell Lane, Chorlton since she was in year nine and had been ...

"It's the equivalent of putting a dunce's hat on them in Victorian times. "And of course, if only five to 10 per cent of pupils are hitting targets and wearing their own clothes they could also be ...

A VILLAGE school has been accused of bringing back the “dunce’s cap” by forcing children to wear coloured wristbands to show whether they have been well behaved or naughty.

Learn what school was like in Victorian Scotland in this BBC Bitesize Scotland guide for primary learners of 2nd Level History, People, past events and societies, in Scotland's Curriculum for ...

“They spent the day in the way in which every Victorian child would have done,” said Mrs Pinder. “We did a lot of times table practice, and they all loved the dunce’s hat.