Florence Nightingale

This half term in history we have been learning about Florence Nightingale. We have been enjoying our time learning about Florence and here are some things we found out.

• She is a famous nurse who helped soldiers in the war.


• She travelled on a boat to get to the Crimean war.


• When she arrived at the Scutari hospital she was surprised by the conditions.


• The smell was disgusting and even worse there were rats scurrying around the patients who were on the floor.


• Florence cleaned the hospital and made it a much better place for the soldiers.

We have learnt this by comparing nurses past and present, ordered events in Florence Nightingales life, some drama about feelings and a diary that Florence might have written.

We are looking forward to finding out more about Florence Nightingale over the next couple of weeks.

By Butterworth Class