To summarise our learning of the Great Fire of London, we created our own timeline of events. We talked about Chronological Order and why the events had to be in time order. The children challenged each other and debated the sequence of the events. The looked at the dates on the cards as well as thinking about reasons why, for example “they can’t shout for help and fire if the fire hasn’t started yet.” By the end, we had made an accurate timeline of events. The children were very proud of themselves!

In 1C last week, we became Architects! We learned all about Christopher Wren; was tasked to resign London after the Great Fire. When designing the new streets of London, there were important things for us to consider. The children labelled their plans specifying that the buildings must be made of “brick or stone” and that there must be space between the houses. They could explain why they had made these design choices!

Today we became History Detectives! We examined evidence to predict what we thought the pictures were before they were burnt in the fire. We also explored the different tools used to put out fires and learned how they worked.