Description of the activities

The downloadable resources include

My Victorian Scrapbook A collection of 5 activities to support the children's exploration of the 'Inside the Shop' section of the site. The activities are:
  • Searching the site. 8 simple search questions to encourage the children to search the site.
  • Wrapping sausages. A cut out and paste sequencing activity based on how Victorian shops used to package their goods.
  • What can I buy in the Victorian shop? A set of cloze exercises on the produce that could be found in a shop 100 years ago.
  • My book of packages in a Victorian shop. A mini-book in which the children can record their investigations of the range of packaging found in a Victorian grocers.
  • Shops - then and now. A table in which the children can record their observations of the difference between shops today and shops in Victorian times.

Harry’s Story

A collection of 3 activities to support the children's reading of the 'Harry’s Story' section of the site. The activities are:
  • Complete the story. A simple cloze exercise of one page, based closely on the text of the story.
  • Write your own story. A reproduction of the full story, with outline pictures and lines for the children to write their own text, on four sheets of A4.
  •  Extension activities. Some ideas for independent imaginative writing based on the story of Harry Webb.

Creating our own Victorian shop

This collection of downloadable materials to support the creation of a Victorian Shop in the classroom includes the following outline reproductions of Victorian Sainsbury artefacts:
  • An A4 poster of a Victorian advertisement for Sainsbury's tea.
  • An outline copy of the Dolphin wall tile.
  • An outline copy of the Chrysanthemum border tile.
  • Outline labels for Pear and Pineapple tins.
  • Label and top for Apricot jam.
  • An exploded net of a Red Label tea packet.