In those days when people wrote diaries, instead of using pens they dipped feather tips in ink and wrote with that instead. All the houses in London were so close together, which is a very good thing for escaping…But it also helped the fire to spread. As well as ideas to support reading, spoken language and writing, in this set of Starting Points you’ll find ideas to support the following aspects of grammar teaching and learning:

Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Toby and The Great Fire of London by Margaret Nash you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 2. It seemed there was nowhere safe from the fire, so everyone was really worried – including the diary writer Samuel Pepys. Topic Guides – Explore our topic guides and discover teaching ideas, resources, facts, videos and books that will help you to teach your children about a wide range of topics and themes.

But before they could use fire hooks, the people of Pudding Lane needed to ask the Lord Mayor if they were allowed to – and he had to say ‘yes’. Images to Inspire – A huge collection of inspirational images that can be used as the starting point for learning. Each picture is accompanied by a writing prompt, inference questions and related activity ideas! I find the Starting Points resources brilliant. They are exactly that, a starting point for my planning. It helps me to ensure that many aspects of the Year 2 English curriculum can be taught from one book. The resource for Toby and the Great Fire of London will really help me to extend the children's English skills while also helping to teach them the history of this event through a story. I would highly recommend these resources." Townspeople: Fire! Fire! We need to tell somebody about this… I wish someone would invent the telephone. And the fire brigade.Let’s get The Lord Mayor.

How the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function as a statement, question, exclamation or command Hmm. We must command the Lord Mayor to pull down all the houses in front of the fire, so it has no fuel to burn, then the fire will die down. Townsperson: I’ve heard that more than 300 houses have been burned by a fire, Sir, and it’s still going. Explore our Event Calendar to find educational events throughout the entire year. Each event includes: The story starts on Pudding Lane, in the home of Thomas Farriner, a baker who lived with his family above the bakery.

Watch: Find out how the fire was put out

SINGS) Something’s burning, something’s burning. Fetch the ketchup, fetch the ketchup… BBQ! BBQ! It’s burnt and it’s crispy.Before ovens were invented all food had to be cooked on fires. Rat: So, Pepys went to command the Lord Mayor to pull down the houses, while King Charles II followed up the Thames in his royal barge to see the fire for himself. Thomas Farriner and his family climbed out of the window, to the roof, and escaped to the neighbour’s house… all except their maid. Rat: But while they slept, a spark must have jumped out of the oven… the fire spread across the kitchen before anyone woke up.