This KS3 lesson should take at least one hour. The Power Point leads students through all activities with accompanying resources included. Aims and Objectives: To know the main events of the Great Fire of London. To figure out what caused it, why it spread so quickly and who/what was to blame. To understand how it changed London forever and decide overall if it was a good or bad thing for the city. Activities include a question formation/answer starter whereby students form their own who, what, why, where, when and how questions and then see how many they can answer using the short video. We then sort the cause cards into evidence that the fire was intentional/a plot vs. an accident. We then move on to consider the effects by comparing a picture of London before and after the fire. Having gone though some facts on the extent of the improvements made to the city, students write a paragraph answer deciding whether, on balance, the Great Fire of London was a good or bad thing.

This set of resources is designed for teaching the Great Fire of London KS1 History unit. You can download the planning for free here. It is suitable for Year 2 children and more able Year 1 children. The presentation introduces key vocabulary and then takes children through the main events of the Great Fire of London in 1666. The follow-up activity helps children chronologically order these events over the five days of the disaster. It is recommended that children do the sequencing activity in mixed ability pairs. If necessary, it is possible to stick the activity into an exercise book. If you like this resource, we would appreciate a review! We will happily send you a free resource in return for a review or useful suggestions/feedback. Contact us at ed@teachitforward.co.uk.

A weeks London Plan that look at the children learning a poem about the great fire of london before using adjectives to describe the fire to help with the creation of their own poem.

A Unit of work suitable for whole class reading sessions, or as a remote learning activity pack. Closely follows the text ‘The Great Fire of London’ by Emma Adams. Children have opportunities to infer, predict, summarise, retrieve, visualise and make connections with 13 activities / worksheets. Year 2 / Year 3

Class Assembly Script - The Great Fire of London 30 Speaking Parts: Thomas Farynor Samuel Pepys A baker 27 Narrator Speaking These are be adapted for more or less speaking roles but covers a whole class.

This fun and humorous class assembly, used with a Year 2 class, is linked to popular TV shows and the Great Fire of London. There are appearances from Thomas Farriner on The Great British Bakeoff, Samuel Pepys and King Charles II are interviewed on BBC News and The Strictly Come Dancing professionals perform a fire dance. The script also includes parts for the children to take on the role of their teachers with a Beat the Teacher quiz at the end! A PowerPoint is included to use as a backdrop if an IWB is available.

This is a fun History assembly for year 2. It has 1 catchy song and a fun poem. It covers the events during the great fire of london,how it started, why the fire burned, fire fighting methods and how London changed afterwards . There are so many opportunities for fun acting and miming in this script too depending on the ability of your class. Hopefully it saves you some time for planning your own assemblies.

Great Fire Of London teaching power point and print and go activities. Suitable for year 2. Help your students learn all about the Great Fire of London. Use the Power Point first to tell the children all about the Great Fire Of London. Use the recap slides to discuss with the children what life was like in 1666 London, why the homes were fire hazards, how the fire started, why it spread so quickly, how it eventually went out and how the fire changed London. There are then a variety of activities to choose from – Reading comprehensions – these could be used for guided reading 5 senses activity – could be used alongside a drama activity. What would it be like to be caught up in the fire? Gather a bank of vocabulary for children to use. London 1666 and now – students can either draw or write about London now and then. Alternatively they could research online and print out pictures they find and interesting facts. Great Fire Facts – students fill in the six boxes with the facts they have learnt about the Great Fire. Timelines – discuss chronology with the students before completing these 2 differentiated timelines. Early Finishers – early finishers can complete the cut and stick activity Label The London Buildings.

Photo cut and stick activity - Great fire of London sequencing activity

Full assembly script attached. 5 - 11 years 20 minutes long (approx.) This assembly was praised by visiting inspectors so I hope you like it. All music required is attached + optional PowerPoint (you may want to display some of the images during the assembly).

A lesson ideal for KS3, focusing on the events of the Great Fire of London, the causes, and consequences of the Fire. Uses sources and higher level thinking skills for students to investigate this. Includes challenge and super challenge activities throughout.

This lesson links to my previous one on the causes of the Great Fire of London. In this lesson, students have to decide how lucky London was to have the fire in the first place. They are introduced to conflicting arguments before they are given a plethora of evidence from which they will be able decide and make judgements on how to break the news to the current Mayor of London. They are subsequently given argument words to help them construct a persuasive letter. For extra challenge students have to decide if London was lucky or not in the short and long term and break down the evidence into political, social, economic or religious reasons. This is a fun, entertaining as well as a challenging lesson and would also suit a non specialist. The lesson is aimed at key stage 3, but can be delivered at key stage 2 also. The lesson comes with retrieval practice activities, suggested teaching and learning strategies and is linked to the latest historical interpretations, video clips and debate. The lesson is enquiry based with a key question posed at the start of the lesson and revisited at the end to show the progress of learning. The lesson is fully adaptable in PowerPoint format and can be changed to suit.

This is a fun, entertaining as well as a challenging lesson, designed to question and evaluate the causes of the Great Fire of London in the summer of 1666. The hook is Samuel Pepys; why did he bury his cheese and why did he bury it alongside items that were surely more valuable? The lesson comes complete with differentiated resources as students have to plot the causes and consequences of the fire on a visual display using logs,flames and smoke. Notes have been put on each slide on how to deliver the activities and answers to some of the questions posed as well as suggested teaching strategies. This lesson is active, exciting and engaging and would also suit a non specialist. It is aimed at key stage 3, but can be delivered to key stage 2 pupils also. The lesson comes with suggested teaching and learning strategies and are linked to the latest historical interpretations, video clips and debate. The lesson is enquiry based with a key question posed at the start of the lesson and revisited at the end to show the progress of learning. The lessons are fully adaptable in PowerPoint format and can be changed to suit.

This Year 2 unit of work focuses on Samuel Pepys Dairy that he kept to record the events of the Great Fire of London. This weeks worth of planning timetables: Mon - SPaG lesson (verbs), Tues - Freeze frame/snap shots of scenes described in the diary, Wed - Identifying features of a Diary entry using Samuel Pepys as an example, Thur - Planning own diary entry of the first two days of the fire breaking out and Fri - The Big Write of their own diary entry. The resources included: Lesson plans, verbs worksheets, Samuel Pepys Diary (PowerPoint presentation), diary writing questions and a diary features checklist. This planning could always be adapted for the use in other year groups.

Basic facts with images of events Mentioning Samuel Pepys and Sir Christopher Wren. Web Link to a simple recall of events and a simple quiz

This Great Fire of London knowledge organiser is designed for a KS1/ LKS2 Class (year 1-4). This knowledge organiser is designed to introduce the children to the topic, encourage independence in learning and provide children with the key information they will learn more about during the topic. The sections included are the key events, key dates, key vocabulary, significant people and equipment and some useful images/ diagrams.

Great Fire of London lettering

Worksheets and teaching activities for literacy, history and drama. These downloads accompany the play: The Great Fire of London (9780750265485) published by Wayland, however they CAN be used without the play. The play is based on the true event of the Great Fire of London in 1666, however the characters and story are fictitious. You could use the play while looking at the topic of the Great Fire of London or about The Stuarts. The play would also give the children the opportunity to explore a variety of text types and genres. (NC: EN2 6a-g)

Worksheet containing background information about the fire and sources to illustrate each part of the story/narrative. There are comprehension and source based questions at the end followed by tasks which encourage pupils to think about the short and long term causes/consequences of the fire.

Six images to put in order and make a timeline of the Great Fire of London. For an extension activity children can write further detail and add information about when the fire was finally extinguished. Further free resources are available on my TES shop and if you have found this useful please give it a review so others know :) The images are taken from my picture book Vlad and the Great Fire of London and information about this and my school visits can be found on the Reading Riddle website.