Setting the Great Fire of London in school!

Our Year 1 and Year 2 classes (6-7 year olds) made models of Tudor houses, which we strung together in closely packed streets.

As the fire started to rip through the houses, London burned before their eyes! As history told, we called bands of firefighters to fight the blaze and eventually the fire was extinguished.

All the children learned valuable lessons that day, not least how Charles II decreed that all houses from then on would be built of stone to save a fire like that from ever happening again.

Update: To those that have commented about the use of lighter fluid and safety, we discussed the health and safety of setting a fire safely, the children were behind a coned off area, there were adults supervising them and we discussed the use of lighter fluid before we came outside.

We didn't include that bit in the video as it wasn't really part of the story!

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