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Explore The Great Fire of London through simple songs - including the tunes of well-known nursery rhymes - and music activities. They can be used alone or in conjunction with the other stand-alone units in the series, which explore the Great Fire through Dance and Drama.
There is also an additional History programme, summarising the main events of the fire and offering a time-line across the period 2nd September to 5th September, 1666.
Before using the programmes with your class or group make sure you both listen to the audio and read the Teacher’s Notes - included. The notes include guidance on what you’ll find in the programmes and how best to make use of the content.
When you play the programmes with your group you can mediate the play-back conveniently using the ‘play / pause’ button on the online player. Pause the play-back to ensure everyone is listening carefully or to arrange groupings or to consolidate understanding.
Either during or after listening to the programme, you may wish to make use of the additional resources. These include:
the lyrics for each song
the music sheet for each song
an mp3 file of both the full vocal and backing track versions of each song to download
a video of both the full vocal and backing track version of each song - ideal for use in conjunction with your IWB and for encouraging the children to sing with an upright posture
Taken as a whole, the units on Music, Dance and Drama are an ideal way to extend study of The Great Fire into the Expressive Arts.
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In this clip from the BBC Teach series, Icons, Sir Trevor McDonald reports on Nelson Mandela, who went from freedom fighter to become South Africa’s first Black president.
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This film is from the series Poets in Person available on BBC Teach.
Poet John Agard describes the process of writing his poem ‘Checking Out Me History’.
He explores where the ideas behind the poem came from.
His commentary is illustrated with school scenes and his own performance of extracts from the poem.
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This assembly framework is one of a set of KS2 assemblies from BBC Teach.
A short story (approx. 6 mins duration), available here, is used as part of this assembly. A boy reads the diary entries written by his great-great-grandfather from the trenches of the Western Front at Christmas 1914.
By Christmas 1914, soldiers from the Allied and German armies had dug-in along a trench system reaching from Switzerland to the North Sea. On Christmas Eve the guns fell silent. The following morning - Christmas Day - troops on both sides climbed from their trenches and met together in No-Man’s-Land, between the battle lines. They shared drinks, played football, embraced, exchanged presents and sang carols. This spontaneous truce was observed in several places along the Western Front, but by no means everywhere. The following day - Boxing Day - the fighting began once again.
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This assembly framework is part of a series of School Radio assemblies, which can be found on the BBC Teach website.
This assembly is especially appropriate for Martin Luther King Day (third Sunday of January to coincide with his birthday, 15/01/1929) and Black History Month.
Dr King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech was delivered on 28 August 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to a crowd of about 250,000.
It was the culmination of the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom’ and is a key moment in the Civil Rights movement.
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access); and
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In this clip from the BBC Teach series, Icons, Sanjeev Bhaskar explores how Dr Martin Luther King Jr had a dream of an equal America, free from racial discrimination.
PLEASE NOTE: This short film contains scenes which some people may find upsetting. Teacher review is recommended prior to use in class.
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