Hetty Feather
Teachers

‘Hetty Feather’ offers a thought-provoking and entertaining addition to KS2 classwork on Victorian Britain. The Foundling Museum has worked with publisher Random House to create Teacher’s Notes, incorporating pupil tasks, to accompany the reading of the book in school. Download the notes from this page.

On this page you will also find useful downloadable source material from the Museum’s collections to support both the Hetty Feather Teacher’s Notes and further study of the Foundling Hospital during the Victorian period. To see the material supporting tasks in the Pupil’s Notes click here.

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Our popular KS2 Victorian Foundlings taught session provides pupils with a powerful, interactive introduction to life for poor children in Victorian Britain. For session and booking information please click here.

Download Hetty Feather Teacher’s Notes HERE

Resources for Hetty Feather Teacher’s Notes - click on links to download

• Token 1 - a button left by a mother with her baby at the Foundling Hospital.

• Token 2 - a ring left by a mother with her baby at the Foundling Hospital.

• Token 3 - a pendant left by a mother with her baby at the Foundling Hospital.

• Token 4 - a man's pocketwatch chain with Victorian coin fob left by a mother with her baby at the Foundling Hospital.

• Token 5 - a hazelnut shell left by a mother with her baby at the Foundling Hospital.

• Sunday at the Foundling Hospital

• The Story of John Brownlow

More Victorian resources from the Museum’s collections

- click on links to download

• Coloured print, Foundling Hospital Guildford Street, Thomas H Shepherd.

• Instructions to mothers wanting to petition the Hospital for the admission of their babies, 1854.

• Certificate of entry to the Foundling Hospital for Sarah James, 1838.

• A christening in the Chapel of the Foundling Hospital, Robert Barnes, The Graphic, October 10 1891.

• Photograph of a foster mother and five Foundlings, c1890.

• Abraham Taylor's handwriting exercise book, 1840.

• Apprenticeship certificate for Esther Mayhew, 1855.

• Apprenticeship certificate for James Wilmot, 1863.

• Report on Foundling apprentice Samuel Ingram by his employer, 1842

• Letter to the Hospital from Foundling Samuel Ingram about his apprenticeship, 1842

• Photograph from a sports day at the Foundling Hospital, boys' sack race, c.1890.

• Photograph of Foundling girls, c1890

• Photograph of Foundling girls, c1900.

• Photograph of the Foundling Hospital Clerk’s Office

• Photograph of John Brownlow with his wife and granddaughter, 1870.

• Photograph of Emma King (Brownlow)

• The Christening, 1863, by Emma King (Brownlow) (1832-1905) © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum

• The Foundling Restored to its Mother, 1858, by Emma King (Brownlow) (1832-1905) © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum

• Sick Room, 1864, by Emma King (Brownlow) (1832-1905) © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum

• Taking Leave, 1868, by Emma King (Brownlow) (1832-1905) © Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum