London's Burning!!

Year 2 spend the last week of term linking their History, Science and Literacy topics by building their own Tudor houses. We worked in teams to build them and thought carefully about the materials used at the time.

What a WOW end to our Great Fire of London topic answering the question excellently of ‘Why did the fire spread so quickly?’ The weather was on our side to showcase the problem with strong winds, houses were closely packed in and were made with wood(paper) and straw.

Year 2 sang London’s Burning as our own London burnt down, luckily Victoria and John were there to ‘pour on water’ when the fire continued to spread from house to house.

Willow class could clearly see why the King wanted London to be rebuilt from brick and stone!

This topic has been a great start to Year 2 and enabled fantastic discussions, lots of learning and a cross curricular creative approach!

Snails....

Willow class had a great time finding snails unfortunatly this meant they were removed from their natural habbitat many of us were very interested in watching and finding out more about snails so we decided to make our own DIY snail sanctuary, we added mud, bark, leaves and grass with some water to a tray, we gave them some banana and placed the snails carefully in. This meant we could watch and learn whilst letting the snails be. We made sure we were as quiet as excited children can be and had a great time.

Art - Using Marbling and Cityscape silhouettes to recreate the Great Fire of London

Willow class have had fantastic art sessions this week, we learnt the technique or marbling, we created city scapes which we drew and cut out on black paper to make silhouettes. We added these to our fire images. then used tissue paper as flames. I think they look fantastic!

Art in Willow

We have been using pastels to recreate the Great Fire of London and our visit to the Monument,

Monument Trip 26th September 2019

Today we went to the Monument of the Great Fire of London which was built to commemorrate the Great Fire. We had to walk up 311 stairs to get to the top it was alot of walking and hard work but the views of London were fantastic. We could see everything!! London looks very different now to what it looked like before the fire. This was because of the rules the King made when rebuilding the city. Buildings could only be made of stone or brick and they had to be built on wide streets and further apart to make it harder to stop fires spreading.

We also got to see Pudding Lane the spot where the fire actually started! We had lunch in the beautiful abandonded St Dunstan’s Church which no longer has roof due to a fire. We go to walk under and then across London Bridge in the sunshine to make our way back to school.

Year 2 Willow

Exciting things ahead for Willow in

2019-2020!

10th September WOW day: Great Fire of London

This morning we all went to bed on the carpet then suddenly we could hear “Fire! Fire!” Oh no! We learnt about how the Great Fire of London was started in a bakery on Pudding Lane. We even got to have ago at making our own spiced buns the recipie that might have caused the fire!!

We got to explore our outdoor provision, using resources to find out more about what happened and what life was like. We used construction materials to make buildings - making sure they were close together as this is one of the reasons the fire spread so quickly. We drew with chalks what we thought the city of London would look like when it was burning.

We ended the day through dance we walked, skipped and jogged through the maze of narrow winding London streets, we became bakers mixing, kneading and putting heaving trays of delicious goods in the oven. Then we became the fire starting small until we were ‘monsters’ of a fire sweaping the city! We ended by becoming fireman pumping the water as we sung London’s Burning. What a tiring job! Phew