In 1847, the Traveller’s Miscellany and Magazine of Entertainment described a luxurious bathing machine: Bathing machines would often be equipped with a small flag which could be raised by the bather as a signal to the driver that they were ready to return to shore. To support your child's learning you could ask them to explain how to brush their teeth, how to make make their bed or how to get dressed.

This term our topic is WW II and we are thinking about the question ‘What was it like to be a child during WWII?’

As our stunning start to this topic we are hoping to visit the local Whitstable Museum which have an exhibit on WW11. If you have any relatives or friends who were alive during WW11 and would be prepared to visit us, please us know! Part of the ground floor of the house was opened to the public in 1904, and most of the other parts were converted into a convalescent home for officers. [8] Outside, wander among flower-filled gardens, discover the quirky museum in the Swiss Cottage and relax on the beach where the royal children learnt to swim. It is impossible to imagine a prettier spot,' said Queen Victoria of Osborne, her beloved home on the Isle of Wight.

During the Victorian era, it was much less common to be able to swim compared to today, and women in particular were generally inexperienced swimmers, especially given the often extensive and billowing swimwear that was the fashion at the time. In Iolanthe, the Lord Chancellor's "Nightmare Song" describes a passenger ship as not much larger than a bathing machine. Probably all bathing machines had small windows, [3] but one writer in the Manchester Guardian of May 26, 1906 considered them "ill-lighted" and wondered why bathing machines were not improved with a skylight. [5]

We will finally use all the skills we have learnt so far to solve a variety of money based problems. Towards the end of the term we will be revisiting properties of 3D and 2D shapes.