Tag: Victorians

The Victorians gave us many new advances that we are still using today. When thinking of handwriting they’ve helped us too. Giving us sloping boards. Facing forwards when writing. And even writing with chalk on blackboards. All this helps when teaching handwriting. Read how we can still be learning from the Victorians.

Victorian classrooms

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Thanking the Victorians In this post, I’ll compare desks in a Victorian classroom with those in a modern school. You may find the results on the children’s handwriting surprising! You’d notice several differences when comparing a Victorian classroom with a modern one. Perhaps none more so than the very desks children were sitting at! In […]