Fire - Session 6

Learning Intention:
· To work as part of a group, contributing and sharing ideas.
· To participate in drama activities, continue to create and sustain roles (within our frame)
· To create an imaginary recount, using a writing frame to organise their writing. To use their phonic knowledge in their writing.

Steps within session:
· Out of story – Look at a selection of photos on the IWB, to establish that fire-fighters don’t just fight fires. (Including rescuing a horse from a ditch with lifting equipment, pumping water from a flood etc). Use Mr B’s (a local fire-fighter) photos as well.
· Recap that in ‘our story’ the Chief has asked us to include stories of real incidents in our education brochure. I explained that we were going to make a plan/notes of what we are going to write in our incident report. Use a writing frame to support this.

Links with other curriculum work:
· Mr B is going to organise a visit to the local fire station and a visit from the education officers to learn more about safety.


We have also begun to look at paintings of the Great Fire of London – learning to ‘read’ paintings – ‘What does a painting tell us?’ We generated lots of enquiry questions. About ½ of the class find this hard and tend to make statements. I feel I need to do more philosophy type activities to encourage them to ask questions. The others are at ease and use their natural curiosity to ask lots! These paintings will link the ‘fire-fighter’ work, as they identify differences between ways of life at different times.

Review of session:
· The children are responding well to planning our writing first and are more confident to put their ideas down. Most children understood the task and came up with their own ideas for ‘Where they were when the shout came in’; ‘what they saw when they arrived on the scene’ and what was the outcome’. It was good to see them using/applying the information they are learning on the way through this topic e.g. about real equipment.

Additional curriculum coverage:

Ideas for next moves:

· Portrait convention to ‘talk’ to Samuel Pepys.