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Part 1 - Clip 3: The Great Fire begins

Pupils enact the beginning of the Great Fire. Click 'Show more' for Teachers' Notes.

TEACHERS' NOTES FOR THIS CLIP

DRAMA ACTIVITIES:
1. Solo movement: Kerry plays the introductory video for today鈥檚 visit which includes the challenges the group must undertake: i) offering help; ii) returning something lost; iii) speaking with a king. Then the children are straight into an extended movement sequence to sound effects: i) getting up from bed; ii) climbing through a window onto the roof; iii) jumping across to another roof; iv) climbing carefully down to the street.
2. Whole group - discussion: the group listens to a 鈥楩act file鈥 which gives them the option of going to the river, travelling west towards the home of relatives...or doing something else.
Kerry asks the group to come together to discuss the options.

GUIDANCE:
1. Check that everyone is listening carefully and has noted the challenges.
Be ready to take part in the movement activity alongside the children if it will aid their commitment to the fiction. The complete movement sequence lasts about 1鈥 15鈥 and Kerry talks the group through the various moves.
2. Quickly get everyone into a group circle and be ready to adopt the role of Kerry, managing the discussion. Try to maintain the tension while the programme is paused - so that the group understands that time is of the essence.
Key points to keep in mind are: the river is nearby and if the group can get across the river they will be safe; the relatives live in the same direction that the fire is travelling, so going there may not help. Perhaps the group will have other ideas...

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4 minutes