Great Fire of London School Visits
Teach your class about the Great Fire of London interactively! Our sessions, workshops and school visits, feature hands-on historical enquiry through genuine & replica artefacts.
Our Fire of London visit has been developed with Key Stage 1 in mind and operates in a different way to our other visits. A large space works well for most of the session as the children will be expected to move around the space for the majority of the time.
A class at a time will meet Samuel Pepys’ servant who will explain the events of the fire, referring to Samuel’s diary. This is an interactive session and the class will be fully involved in the story telling. They will be encouraged to consider historical enquiry throughout this role-playing session.
Children will learn how the fire was started; how it spread so quickly; important people who helped to stop the fire and how the fire burned out. Children will also discover what Samuel was doing just a couple of months after the fire and get to write with a quill just like Samuel did!
The day is fully risk assessed and this can be emailed upon request. Confirmation of booking is taken as a contract between the school and The Specialists and acceptance of our T & C’s.
Greg and Lisa McCarthy have many years of experience working with children. Greg is a teacher and Lisa a former Occupational Therapist in learning disabilities. Both have full DBS and public liability insurance.
We provide a living history and reenactment service as historical interpreters to bring the excitement of real history to your classroom.
Fire in Pudding Lane!
Some of the locations we travel to for our workshops are:
East-Midlands, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Leamington, Leicester, Hinckley, Nottingham, Coventry, Birmingham, Tamworth, Derbyshire, , Chesterfield, Ilkeston, Swadlincote, Nottinghamshire, Derby, Mansfield, Worksop, Newark, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Coalville, Lutterworth, Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough, Nuneaton, Solihull, Warwick, Rugby, West Midlands.