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• Some fathers would gather their families together daily to read the

Bible and to pray.

• The youngest child of a family would often say grace at meal-times.

• Christenings, weddings and funerals were important family gatherings.

(When someone died, the family wore black clothes. A widow wore black
for a year then purple for a year.)

• Christmas was a happy occasion and Prince Albert started the tradition

of decorating a Christmas tree. Cards, Christmas pudding and cake were
Victorian customs. Santa Claus was also started by the Victorians.

• Victorians loved to wear their ‘Sunday best’ clothes to church. Some
rich people had heated family pews. Middle classes paid rent for good

seats.

• Some poorer people belonged to the Methodist or Baptist chapels.

• Many children went to Sunday Schools.

3. Remind the children of how our Christian school was started in 1984 by the
church. Discuss with the children if they think churches should run schools or

the government. Should the government pay churches to run schools?

4. Churches in Victorian times set up many charities and many social reformers
were Christians. Missionaries went out to other parts of the world to share

the Gospel, eg David Livingstone, Mary Seacole, Mary Slessor.

5. Let the children choose one Victorian social reformer to write about, eg
Elizabeth Fry, William Booth, Lord Shaftesbury, Florence Nightingale, Sir
Robert Peel, Robert Owen.

Alternatively, they could complete one or more of the sheets on David
Livingstone, Mary Slessor or Mary Seacole.

www.wholesomewords.org/mission/bliving2.html

www.bbc.co.uk.schools/famouspeople

chi.gospelcom/net/kids/glimpseforkids

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