Anaxa's awsome facts about workhouses

                                           workhouses

what is a workhouse?

a workhouse is a huge building which has been built for super poor people who couldn't find work back in the Victorian times. 

If a poor person did not want to live in a workhouse they would become a squatter and go to prison!

Why did people not what to live in a workhouse?

people world choose a workhouse as there last hope as it was the last thing they wanted to do. this is because if  a man or member of  a family went into a workhouse the whole family went with them as there was no choice.  

Children  in workhouses

Children had lessons in workhouses  such as: reading; writing; maths and religion. Often teachers were very cruel, this meant child abuse. 

 Food

There often had bread, cheese and if they were lucky meat. It was common to miss a meal if you were bad or did something wrong. 



I would like to find out:

• if children learnt the law
• if adults would get arrested by trying to escape a workhouse
• if whoever owned the workhouse could make children eat from the ground

Would you like to work in the workhouses?




By Anaxa rajah Marriott otters year 5 :)