1C History Lesson 5 and 6

Lesson: History

Class: Year 1 - 1C Year: 2021 - 2022

Lesson 4 objective; Who desreves to be remembered more, Sir Christopher Wren or Samuel Pepys?

In this lesson we revisited what we had learned about Samuel Pepys and how his recording of all of the events of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London in his diary helped historians learn about the two events. We also revisited our learning about Sir Christopher Wren's plans and designs to rebuild London after the Great Fire. Mrs Carey told us that there was an opening space in the History museum for only one famous person. We discussed both men's legacies and had to decide who's artefacts deserved to be displayed. 

SO, to include our British Values, we conducted a democratic vote; we had to choose either Sir Christopher Wren or Samuel Pepys. To help us decide, two of our class mates got into role and argued about why they should be chosen, their job was to influence our votes by explaining why they deserved to be rembered more. We then had a ballot paper to choose our vote and our votes were counted. Sir Christopher Wren got the majority vote.

Lesson 6 objective; Was the Great Fire of Londong a positive or a negative event?

In this lesson we discussed all of the positives and the negatives;

Negatives; there was no fire brigade, the houses were made of wood and were too close together, people were made homeless because insurance had not been created yet, over 13000 houses burnt down and six people lost their lives.

Positives; The fire brigate was created, buildings were rebuilt using brick and stone,  insurance was created, miraculously, only 6 people died (it could have been so much worse), the fire wiped out the plague and lots of new churches and cathedrals were built for Christians to visit.