Every child has the right to access reliable information.

Can we interpret events from different sources to find out if they are reliable?

Interpret- explain the meaning of something

Share with your talking partner 3 facts you know about the Great Fire of London.

Can we answer these questions?

What year did it happen?

What month did it happen?

What day did it happen?

If we cannot, how can we find out that information?

The Great Fire of London was a significant event, which is still spoken about today.

How do we hear news of events that are happening now around the world?

How do we hear news of events that happened in the past?

Eye-witness- a person who sees the event happening and tells others of what they saw.

This is Samuel Pepys. He was an eye-witness during the Great Fire of London. Let's watch a video to find out more about him.

Your teacher will read parts of Samuel Pepys diary ( which was decoded 100 years later).

While Thomas Farriner's bakery is well-known for its part in the event, it is not known what caused the initial blaze, while little had previously been found out about who first witnessed it. Recently, the Museum of London have used letters, pamphlets and records to research more information about what happened at the start of the fire.

One note from MP Sir Edward Harley stated that Farriner's "man" (meaning his servant or journeyman) had woken after 01:00 "with the choke of the smoke", and that Farriner, his daughter and Dagger had then escaped out of an upper window. Other sources also suggested Farriner's son was present.

Can we always trust eye-witness accounts?

• Why might they not tell the whole story?
• Do people always remember everything they see in detail?
• Would one person see all the events of such a big fire?
• Can a person say how it started if they were asleep in bed?

Use these sentence openers to record your ideas:

We can trust Pepys because...

We cannot trust Pepys because...