Pupils at a girls' day school in Worcester turned the clock back to 1883 when they studied the teachings of its founder and first headmistress, Miss Alice Ottley. As part of their enrichment and personal, social, health, citizenship and education programme, the ten-year-olds were taught 19th century manners in order to prepare them for the modern world.
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