Celebrating who we are
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.
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
