About this worksheet
A diary-writing task for Year 2 on the Great Fire of London, over three pages. The scene is set in the middle of the night on Sunday 2 September 1666, when a fire breaks out in the bakery in Pudding Lane. Pupils write as a child who wakes up, sees and hears the fire, and escapes towards the River Thames. Four planning questions come first, then a bank of twelve words and a Craft Challenge to include one sound and one smell. The diary page starts with the date and Dear Diary. There is no answer key, as the writing is the pupils' own.
