The Great Fire Of London
From July 2010, I am able to offer two distinct packages for assembly or class presentation about The Great Fire of London in 1666, for Key Stage 1 and lower Key Stage 2 teachers.
For young pupils (6 year olds)
A simple script with 28 separate speaking parts, most of one or two lines, but it caters for mixed-ability classes with opportunities for more able pupils to have more to say.To see more information about this, click here
The Script for older pupils
Three time-travellers, Discoverers, whose job is to find out about the past, pick up some signals from 1666. What they hear is a song about the Fire of London and they speed off to London 1666, to find out more. They meet citizens affected by the fire: Samuel Pepys who recorded the fire, the baker whose bakery in Pudding Lane is where the fire started (and yet who swore that he put the ovens out properly) and King Charles II who oversaw the re-building under Christopher Wren. Your show could finish with the rebuilding song.
The Songs
There are four songs which accompany both presentations and complement and illustrate the scripts: -
- I am a rat
- The plague
- The fire
- The rebuild
Duration: About 15 minutes
Cast: Minimum 12 - maximum 30
Number of Songs: 4
Prices:
£12.50 Script
£7.50 CD
£10.00 Sheet Music
Samples:
The Fire
This one sets the scene, describing the effects of the fire, on top of the problems of the previous year.