Childhood in Tudor times

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Childhood in Tudor times

• By Kirsty Alice

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Contents

• Childrens clothing in Tudor times.
• Chores and discipline in Tudor times.
• The games played in Tudor times.
• Going to school in Tudor times.
• Thanks

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Childrens clothing in Tudor times

• In rich childrens clothing different layers of
  material were common, even from a young age.
  Girls always wore dresses, underneath the top
  layer on the petticoat whale bone to give the
  girl a thin shape round the waist. All of the
  rich childrens clothes were made of fine silk
  and fabric. Poor childrens clothing was very
  different to rich childrens clothing. Poor girls
  wore dresses but they were not as fine as the
  rich clothing. It was something quite old and not
  made of silk and fine fabric, but cotton and
  thread. A satchel would go round the neck.

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Discipline and Chores in Tudor times

• In rich families they would have a person called
  The whipping boy. If the rich child was
  naughty the whipping boy would get whipped.
• In a Tudor school there are punishments too. One
  punishment would be the dreadful dunce hat which
  was a big cone hat with a fat D on the front.
  You could also be whipped with birch wood, for
  making mistakes or not answering questions
  correctly.

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Games played in Tudor times

• You could have games made of wood ,clay, stone
  and animal bone. Girls and boys played with
  dolls, hoops from old barrels, footballs made out
  of a pigs bladder and pebbles and cherry stones
  for marbles. Backgammon, Skittles and hopscotch
  were very popular.
• They would also make waterslides out of wood
  then slide down the river.

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Going to school in Tudor times

• Rich boys only went to school, but some girls
  were educated. They had three years in nursery,
  then when to grammar school at the age of seven.
  In Tudor times school started at six or seven
  oclock in the morning, but some children didnt
  live that close to there school so they had to
  walk five of six miles to get to school.
• Lunch was eleven oclock am. Afternoon lessons
  lasted from one to five oclock. Sadly they only
  two holidays Easter and Christmas. The first
  school children attended, was the petty school
  where they learned to read and write.
• While in grammar school they learn Latin and
  English as the main subjects.

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