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FIRE OF LONDON!
(lesson plan and follow up ideas at end)
BRAND-NEW HISTORY TOTAL-PARTICIPATION WORKSHOP
Children join SAMUEL PEPYS in experiencing the Great Fire of London in this brand-new Rainbow workshop. How and where did the Fire start? What were the events?
How did it spread - and how did people react?
How did they try and stop the Fire?
Why did it take so long to put it out?
What were the results of the Fire?
What was it like to BE THERE in C17th London?
Historical costumes and wigs, sound, ‘real’ smoke, pictures and realistic artefacts will all bring this Workshop to life which is based on the QCA criteria
Rainbow have been presenting Living History Workshops with children participation with professional actors for over 22 years - now joining the repertoire, this powerful and exciting look at one of the great events in England’s past, will literally ‘fire’ the children’s imaginations!
COMMENTS:
"We all enjoyed the performance very much and it moved the children's learning on. Great, thank you very much!" Downview
" Really enjoyed performance which transported us back to C17th. Children totally engaged throughout. All was great. We’ll contact you in future " Crofton JS
"A superb round off to our half term’s topic with all issues covered that they knew about and could relate to" West Green
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Date: N/A |
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Class/Set: Y1 |
Number: 30 |
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Lesson Focus:
HISTORY/ENGLISH/MUSIC |
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Target for Trainee Learning:
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Pupils’ prior experience and learning:
On-going Fire of London topic and Rainbow Theatre visit
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References:
N.C –
History 5, 6d
Music 1b,c, 2b, 4a, c, |
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Learning Intentions:
- to identify how the Fire of London would have sounded to the people who experience it
- to respond to the Fire of London show by exploring, choosing and organising sounds and musical ideas
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Resources/Materials:
- range of musical instruments
- other items to create sound such as crackly paper
- tape-recorder
- IWB – digital photos of show
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Health and Safety Risk Assessment:
- warning about being careful with instruments, particularly beaters
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Inclusion and Differentiation:
- low ability group to have adult support, working on simple sound effects
- high ability to work on creating musical patterns and to evaluate and improve work
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Lesson Content, Organisation and Management:
- class discussion about Fire of London performance: what did children learn? How did they feel?;
- talk about how the fire would have sounded and other noises such as horses hooves, shouting, running feet etc; word bank to be created on board;
- which instruments might make these noises?;
- children to work in groups – each group given responsibility for a particular sound;
- clear signals given for children to stop and put instruments down;
- groups to perform individually to rest of class, then all together, with teacher conducting and bringing in different noises at different times using hand signals;
- extension work: children to write list of noises, describing them with invented signs and symbols.
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Assessment: Evidence for Learning/Implications for Future Planning
- ability to recall facts from show; all pupils should remember at least one thing;
- controlling and listening skills: can pupils respond to hand signals and listen with concentration to other’s performance?;
- are some pupils able to evaluate their performance?
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Other follow-up suggestions:
- Cartoon strip the sequence of events leading up to The Fire of London; N.C KS1 En1,1b
- using a picture of a fire, label it with appropriate adjectives – eg. hot, crackling, loud etc; N.C KS1 History 1a, 5
- write an account of The Fire of London from the point of view of a child living at the time; N.C KS2 En 1a, 9a,b, History 1a,2a,5a,c
- create a fire collage. N.C KS1 Art and design – 2c, 4a
Barley Dellaway
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