Nursery World - Pupils step into Scotland's past

Children from Dunning Primary School's infant class found their new project, 'Farming in the Past', coming to life when they visited Angus Folk Museum in Glamis as part of the museum's Children's Week. Children who visited the museum between 10 and 15 June were invited to dress up and take part in a special tour. The girls enjoyed wearing mutch caps - the close-fitting linen caps worn by rural Scottish women and children in the nineteenth century - and aprons and shawls, while the boys dressed up in waistcoats and caps.

Children who visited the museum between 10 and 15 June were invited to dress up and take part in a special tour. The girls enjoyed wearing mutch caps - the close-fitting linen caps worn by rural Scottish women and children in the nineteenth century - and aprons and shawls, while the boys dressed up in waistcoats and caps.

In the museum's reconstructed school room the children tried their hands at schoolwork using slates and chalks. They learned how things had changed when their guide instructed them to sit silently as Victorian schoolchildren had, sometimes even sitting on their hands. They were quite surprised to be given slate to write on, and interested to see the teacher's belt that was used for punishment.

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