🔥 The Great Fire of London - Year 2

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🔥Fire blazing 🔥 smoke billowing 🔥people panicking!

Year 2 set the scene today by reenacting the Great Fire of London. First the recalled the main events using relevant vocabulary. Then they wrote key words on their own 'flames.'

In the hall, they acted out the embers burning in the bakery before the fire spread across the city. People had to fetch buckets of water from the Thames! 

The Mayor was less than helpful, denying them the use of fire-hooks. Samuel Pepys rowed across London to inform the King. 

The wind and the wooden houses meant the fire spread quickly! It was chaos! Lots of buildings were damaged. Eventually the wind died down and the fire stopped.



Back in class, they wrote a summary of the main events. 
Next we will be making comparisons between London then and now, and considering what impact the Great Fire has had on society today. 

Well done Year 2!





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