Home Educators Workshop - Victorian Christmas at St Johns House

Help Miss Skarritt, Queen Victoria's dresser, design some new Christmas bloomers for the Queen. Learn about Victorian Christmas traditions to help you create your design.

Meet our Victorian school ma'am Miss Roach and experience a Victorian lesson from 1888. Children will dress in basic costume over their own clothes, pinafores for the girls and sailor’s collars for the boys and role play as Victorian pupils in 1888. The lesson will include learning reading and arithmetic by rote, using a class abacus to do their sums.

Learn how the Victorians made Christmas pudding with Mrs Danvers the cook. Your group will help make the pudding but you will not be able to take it home. We make a Temperance, alcohol free, and nut free pudding. A full list of ingredients is supplied with your booking confirmation.

Meet the St John's gardener and learn about other Victorian Christmas traditions, including why we decorate our houses with greenery. Make a Christmas cornucopia. Share your ideas for decorating Queen Victoria's bloomers, sing carols and help to decorate the St John's Christmas tree before you go home.

Suitable for children aged 5 years and above.

Please also book a free ticket for adults and non participating children so we know how many people to expect on site.

Due to space restrictions parents and non participating children are not able to accompany children into the schoolroom but can observe the session through the windows of attached gallery.

Due to space restrictions adults and non-participating children cannot go into the Victorian kitchen for the pudding making workshop.

Accessbility

We are able to accomodate wheelchair users with advance notice. Please call Warwickshire Heritage Learning on 01926 412069 or email [email protected] to discuss how we can help.

There is disabled parking on site.

Parking

Parking only available for Disabled Badge holders on site. Please contact us to book a parking space if you are a Disabled Badge holder.

The closest public car park is Warwick District Council managed St Nicholas car park.

Alternatively we are a 5 minute walk from Warwick Train Station.

Cancellation Policy

• Tickets cannot be refunded or returned.
• Refunds will not be offered for non-attendance at an event.
• Tickets are not transferable and accordingly may not be sold or passed to any third party
• Free tickets can be cancelled at any time via Eventbrite.

We reserve the right to reschedule, postpone or cancel an event at any time.

In the unlikely event that we have to cancel your booking, we will offer you an alternative date where possible. If an alternative date is not possible, we will issue you a full refund for your ticket cost.

We cannot be held responsible for any other costs incurred to you due to the cancellation of an event.

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