Miss .11.17 Theme: The Great Fire of London Oh no! Within this blog post I will be giving you a little look behind the scenes at how the topic pack was created, and some of the amazing resources you’ll find inside.

Introducing our latest topic pack, The Great Fire of London. Here are five other fires - from Rome in antiquity to Tokyo 1923 - that have devastated major world cities. Its 1666 and London is on fire! Despite being around for a very long time as an infant topic it still ‘does the business’.

Give your class a burning desire for drama, art, history and science with this hands-on … Fired up. The Great Fire of London swept through the central parts of the English city from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 September 1666. Using De Bono’s Thinking Hats to develop thinking skills at Key Stage 1 via the topic the Great Fire of London Teaching The Great Fire to Key Stage 1. Great Fire of London, (September 2–5, 1666), the worst fire in London ’s history.

A visit or a visitor is another way to bring the topic to life. This bucket was found in 1974 during archaeological excavations near where the Great Fire of London began. It destroyed a large part of the City of London, including most of the civic buildings, old St. Paul’s Cathedral, 87 parish churches, and about 13,000 houses.

One-third of London was destroyed and about 100,000 people were made homeless.

It offers a way to explore how the fire was fought, how the approach used in 1666 differed from our modern-day fire service, and what this tells us about city life then and now. To teach the Great Fire of London, I recommend inviting fire service education officers or storytellers into school, or even heading out to a firefighting museum.

This topic pack is our biggest yet and chock full of amazing content to get stuck into. It began on 2 September 1666 and lasted just under five days. The Great Fire of London is one of the most well-known disasters in London’s history.

We have received a news alert that a fire started in Pudding Lane Bakery. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall. Making memories in class It threatened but did not reach the City of Westminster, Charles II 's Palace of Whitehall, or most of the suburban slums. KS1 Hook Sheet W/b 20 problems. The fire had a devastating …

Alternatively, the National Archives and Museum of London offer online sessions.