Year 3 Autumn 2 Topic

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Read...
Look out for these books in your classroom, in the hall or at Brierfield Library! 

Key vocabulary...

Bonfire Night
Catholics
fireworks
Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes
light
monarch
Protestants
rebel
treason

Fantastic facts...

  • Fireworks orginated in China around 2000 years ago.

  • Fireworks were first used in England at a royal wedding over 500 years ago.

  • Guy Fawkes unsuccessfully plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament to kill king James I.  This is known as the Gunpowder Plot
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  • Bonfire night is now an annual tradition in the UK on the 5th November to commemorate how the Gunpowder plot was foiled.
 
  • The largest ever firework display has 810,904 fireworks in it.
 
  • Firework displays are used in many celebrations including weddings and to celebrate the start of a New Year.

Explore...

TV presenter Saira Khan reads an extract from The Firework Maker's Daughter.
Check out the London fireworks that celebrated the start of 2025!

Visit...

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World Fireworks Championships - Blackpool

Do...

  • Create firework art using a cut up cardboard tube.  Make sure you ask an adult for help to use the scissors safely - it can be tricky to do.

  • Explore how else you could create firework art...  

In school...

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Class Novel - The Firework Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman