Our Topic this half term is History and we are learning about The Great Fire of London (GFoL). The children are enjoying learning some key facts about why the GFoL was so ‘great’.
We’ve been enjoying singing along to Londons Burning and reading the Poem The Great Fire of London by Paul Perro (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip).
We’ve also read the book, Vlad and the Great Fire of London, (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip) to stimulate our learning.
Help at home: Ask your child to tell you some of the facts they have learnt so far.
- When was the GFoL? (Sunday 02 September 1666)
- What was the cause of the fire? (A spark from an oven ignited the fire)
- Where did the fire start? (in a bakery on Pudding Lane)
- What did they use to try to put the fire out? (fire hooks, buckets of water and water squirters)
- Can they name the important historical figure who wrote a diary about the GFoL? (Samuel Pepys)
- Why did the fire spread so quickly? (because the houses were made from wood and they were built close together).