What was it like for Florence Nightingale working in the Crimean War?
Activities Explain simply why there were British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War. Describe to the children what soldiers do and why they might end up in hospital. Also tell them about the wounded soldiers journey from the Crimean War to Scutari. Show the children a picture of Florence Nightingale working in the hospital at Scutari. Ask them what they can see in the picture that will help them work out what it was like in the hospital. Encourage them to complete ‘I can see…’ statements and to use a range of adjectives to describe what it would have been like in the hospital. Add these to the word bank. Outcomes • identify features of life in the hospital in Scutari that were not hygienic Objectives • about conditions in the Crimea • to select information from pictures about conditions in the hospital in Scutari Points to note This work could be linked to health education by talking more generally about hygiene and its connection to health. The need for hospitals to be clean and f
