The great fire of Greenford!!!

Wow! what a day yesterday was (Wednesday 4th November 2015) We got a once in a lifetime opportunity too see for our selves what the great fire of London must have looked like by making miniature houses and setting them on fire.

Just before we got dismissed for half term our lovely teacher gave us our thrilling homework to do. When I got home I immediately started to plan my house. After hours and hours of planning I finally started to build my house. Slowly , my house started to take shape. The house took me a HOLE DAY to build when I saw the results I was ecstatic I could not wait to see all the houses on fire.

Soon enough Wednesday came. After playtime the great fire of Greenford would start. As playtime ended 5at and 5ed lined up in a semi circle and patiently waited for the inferno to start. Our teacher lit the first building which was the bakery. As it says in Samuel Pepys' diary . All I could see was a puff of smoke covering the sky above us. Was the fire put out by the wind? But in a blink of an eye the inferno had already engulfed three houses. As soon as the fire touched my house I was devastated the fire was crackling like a witch but that was just a model. Can you imagine how the people were feeling in the actual great fire? The inferno gracefully danced up to a meter but it was destroying each house minute by minute until there was nothing left of our houses except from a pile of ashes. The fire had engulfed all of the houses.

The fire was put out by our helper. He quenched the fire and ashes in water while everyone else was fussing about how much smoke was in the sky it looked like a dragon had been raging around the school sending thick black smoke from its nose.

by: Grace