Further resources

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http://www.fireoflondon.org.uk
This is an extremely comprehensive website that has been created by a partnership of Museum of London, National Archives, National Portrait Gallery, London Metropolitan Archives and London Brigade Museum.  The website includes an interactive game that follows a boy who living in London at the time of the fire through a series of simple activities.  It also includes a great deal of information about the Great Fire, teaching resources targeted specifically for KS1 and links to other relevant sites.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/pepys/index.shtml
A page that looks at Samuel Pepys for KS1

http://www.pepys.info
Complete  Pepys Diary.  There is a search box which allows you to search for specific themes and events you may be interested in. You can also key in the dates of the fire.

http://www.poetry4kids.com/modules.php?name=Games&op=display_game&game=WordMagnets
Includes activities and suggestions to help children to create their own poetry

http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/21888/xml
This website is the ‘English Broadside Ballad Archive’ site and takes you to a Ballad called: ‘London Mourning in Ashes’ Ballads such as this were written at the time and printed much like our newspapers today.  These ‘news’ stories would be sung to well known tunes (the closest tune that still exists today would be something like ‘Green sleeves’) Samuel Pepys was a well known collector of Broadside Ballads.

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