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- Schooling concentrated primarily on the three ‘R’s, reading, writing and arithmetic. Students learned with a blackboard and chalk. Discipline certainly differed from today too! Children deemed to be ‘naughty’ received corporal punishment. Boys often felt the thrash of the cane, girls a rap of ta wooden ruler against their knuckles!
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01:51. Find out what life was like for children in the 1950s. Video Transcript. Life after World War Two. After World War Two finished in 1945 life got better for children in Britain during...
Aug 17, 2021 · Gob stoppers, The Dandy, the sixpenny rush and hiding behind the sofa from the Daleks: memories of childhood in the 1950s and 1960s… Ellen Castelow. 8 min read. The recent Covid lockdowns left our children and grandchildren somewhat isolated indoors, their play virtual on Playstations, Netflix and the like.
Feb 9, 2022 · As a teacher I loved teaching children about Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, The Vikings, World War II and so on. Our history in the 1950s was very Britain centred and consisted of learning about famous people and heroes like Scott of the Antarctic, Florence Nightingale, Nelson etc.
Class sizes in the 1950s and early 1960s were large, often over 30 children to a class, as these were the ‘baby boomers’, children born after the Second World War. There were no classroom assistants, just the class teacher and so discipline was strict.
Released during a five year period in the mid-1950s, they were all very popular in their time, and have mostly remained so. None of them was primarily produced for a child audience: rather, they contain representations of childhood created by and for adults.
Jun 15, 2023 · Teaching Pedagogy and Technology. In the 1950s, there was a significant shift in teaching pedagogy that focused on teaching children in a manner that would pique their interest. Teachers switched from the traditional “chalk and talk” method to using puzzles, games, and stories to engage children.
Oct 11, 2016 · This time I'm thinking about the large amount of art and craft activities we did as children in the 1950s. If it was dry we were outside, if it was a wet day or if it was winter and the evenings were dark we were inside and…
