Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole

Florence Nightingale was a British nurse, born in 1820, who cared for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. Known as the Lady with the Lamp, she made army hospitals cleaner and used careful counting to show that most soldiers were dying from disease, not wounds.

Mary Seacole, a nurse and healer born in Jamaica, travelled to the Crimean War at her own expense after she was turned down as an army nurse. She opened the British Hotel near Balaclava, giving soldiers food, rest and medicine, and treated wounded men on the battlefield.

Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole are famous for caring for sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean War in the 1850s. Florence later opened a nursing school in 1860, and both women helped change how people think about caring for the sick.

The game is designed for children aged 5 to 7 and matches the KS1 history topic on significant people from the past. Every line is read aloud and instructions are short, so children who are still learning to read can play on their own or with an adult.

Playing all eight chapters takes about 30 minutes, and progress is saved so children can spread it over several sessions. It includes animated chapter intros, hands-on tasks such as stirring and scrubbing, a quick question after most chapters, a timeline challenge and a named award at the end.