Great Fire of London Workshop – Bumblebee Class

We then had our fantastic workshop on Wednesday. The children absolutely loved it! First of all, we learnt that the Great Fire of London took place the year after the Great Plague. We then learnt about the sequence of events that took place during the Great Fire of London. We indulged in some drama activities to re-enact the fire and to sequence the events, and we thought about the differences in people’s lives and what firefighting was like in the past. After that, we explored why the fire was so devastating because of differences in housing and firefighting in 1666. The children participated in discussions and thought about how people must have felt experiencing those events. They were absolutely buzzing by the end of the workshop!