Schoolchildren burn down mini-London (From Essex County Standard)
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Schoolchildren burn down mini-London
12:30pm Friday 22nd March 2013 in News
London's burning: Children at St Theresa Primary School watch their miniature Pudding Lane go up in smoke.
Pupils at St Theresa Primary School in Colchester recreated the Great Fire of London.
They built the streets around Pudding Lane and, with help from firefighters, they set it alight.
Teacher Gabrielle Hilton said: "They thought it was amazing and didn't mind seeing their hard work burnt."
Comments(5)
SOMETHING2SAY
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12:45pm Fri 22 Mar 13
sandgronun64
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12:48pm Fri 22 Mar 13
Education needs to be fun and I imagine that these children will remember this event for years to come.
Experiential learning is an important and occasionally vital reinforcement to knowledge gained from literature sources.
jeffbridges
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6:51pm Fri 22 Mar 13
the kids will remember about the great fire of london for far longer than just by reading about it.
In the real world, even firefighters from across the world come to England to train on dealing with fire situations,
so the small scale mini buildings fires can be dealt with with ease by our worldwide proven firefighting services eh.
Grabber
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4:51pm Sun 24 Mar 13
chuffster says...
12:37pm Fri 22 Mar 13
Surely they can read about in books without resorting to arsonist training ;-)