Lesson 3: What does the census suggest about the jobs available in the 1800s?
Exploring census extracts from 1881, identifying the different jobs available in Victorian England and considering how class affected the types of job a person did.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
1. Recap and recall
Arrange the children in pairs. Show the Presentation: In the spotlight and ask the children to use the questions on the slide to recall what they learnt about Mary Bucktrout in the previous lesson.
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In this unit
Assessment – History Y6: What can the census tell us about local areas?Lesson 1: What is the census?Lesson 2: What can we learn about Victorian children from the census?Lesson 4: Why did some women refuse to fill out the census in 1911?Lesson 5: What changed in the 1921 Census?Lesson 6: Who lived in our local area in the past?Optional Remembrance lesson: How do people mark Remembrance?
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Maintained by: Kapow Primary teamLast update: 1 July 2026
