To kick-start our Autumn term History topic: The Great Fire of London, the children in Year 2 became bakers and made a bread roll from scratch. They had to follow a recipe and then mix, knead and prove their dough - just as Thomas Farriner would have done in 1666. The children then waited overnight as the bread proved and then they had fun shaping and baking their bread rolls, luckily in an electric oven, and not the open fire oven that would have been used in 1666! The smell of freshly baked bread wafted down the corridors and all mouths were watering.
The children fully enjoyed their experience and now feel ready and more prepared to learn about the historic events of September 1666.
