PLAGUE and deadly fire were on the agenda for Steeton Primary School children this month.
The school held a Samuel Pepys Day, in honour of one of history’s greatest diary writers, as part of its Creative Curriculum topic on the Great Fire of London.
Actor Alex Fellows visited the school in the guise of Pepys to tell year one and two pupils about the Plague of 1665 that preceded the Great Fire.
Head Kevin Wheeler said: “The children were able to role-play getting the symptoms and dying, as well as learning the meaning of Ring a Ring a Roses and performing the rhyme."
Mr Pepys told them all about his life and the children role played escaping from the Great Fire of London by rowing across the Thames in boats. They also contemplated what they would have done after the fire was put out.”
The pupils also met historical figure Thomas Farynor and heard the story from his point of view.
To round off the day, the children wrote with quill pens and made purses with coins inside.
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