Pupils experienced what a school day was like as a Victorian student by taking themselves back to a time gone by.

Fairways Primary School in Leigh had their annual Victorian day where the Year One pupils went back 150 years and were taught in a classroom where writing with your left hand was banned and girls had to sit at the back of the class.

The children were visited by a team of performers on Tuesday, including Anthony Webb, who taught the children about school life in the 1800s, and Anita Fuller, who dressed as Her Majesty, Queen Victoria.

Hayley McGlashan, a Year 1 teacher at the school, said: “It was a really great day.

“The boys had to sit at the front of the classroom while the girls were at the back and they were not allowed to use their left hands to write.

“Anthony and the team are always great and we are so grateful they can come and do this.”

The pupils are currently learning about the Victorian era in school, so the event played an important, educational role in their curriculum.

Ms McGlashan added that the pupils were “taken back” by the experience.

She said: “They were really taken back by how different it was.

“They said they wouldn’t want to have been in a classroom back then.”

The Victorian day has been taking place at Fairways Primary School for the past six years.