Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London (KS1)

Teachers Notes (19 KB)
Resource A (7 KB)
Resource B (594 KB)
Pupil's Work (476 KB)
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The children had posed their own questions about the fire; we had told the story of the fire from Samuel Pepys' perspective; the children role-played trying to put out the fire with hooks, squirters and buckets of water; and they examined pictures of said equipment and of London before and during the fire.

Here we take the investigation further, through:
• reading genuine historical sources, pictorial and written;
• debating causation;
• and sequencing.

The children communicate their understandings through structured writing, individually and in groups.

This was part of a seven-week unit looking at the Great plague of London, the Great Fire of London, and Samuel Pepys as a famous person.

Note that you need to download resources A and B. Resources B contains pictures of Pepys and the Fire.

by Jacqui Dean