Key Stage 1

History KS1 Unit 5 - How do we know about the Great Fire of London?

This unit links an important event beyond living memory in British history, the Great Fire of London, with a famous person, Samuel Pepys. Children develop their sense of chronology and consider why the Great Fire happened; its results; and the different ways it is represented.

OTHER RESOURCES

• Photographs of London today.


• Portraits of Charles II, Samuel Pepys, Sir Christopher Wren, seventeenth-century citizens and the main characters in the Great Fire.


• A class time line.


• A video telling the story of the Great Fire.


• Pictures of seventeenth-century street scenes and buildings.


• Short edited extracts from Pepys' diary describing the Great Fire and the rebuilding of London.


• Sets of 'heads and tails' giving reasons for the spread of the fire.


• A map of Britain today, showing London and the locality of the school.