Show Key Stage 2 history pupils the harsh conditions inside a Victorian workhouse, with this short lesson starter.
Through a poem written in a letter to his sister in 1846, poet James Reynolds conveys the conditions of the Newmarket workhouse in which he lived for several months.
Primary pupils can hear Reynolds describe the grim, basic food, the shabby clothes and the room he slept in with 14 others. He compares it to being wrongfully imprisoned.
