Happy Halloween

On Friday night we went guizing. There was about 41 children that went guizing. We started altogether and visited the houses around the school before splitting into two groups and going North/South. There were lots of brilliant costumes and we had lots of fun. The older secondary pupils went guizing too. They scared one lot of children by hiding in the bus when they were in one of the houses, when we came out and opened the bus door then they jumped out and shouted which gave poor Jessica a terrible gluff! We had lots of fun and got lots of sweeties from the kind people in Cullivoe. They were also kind enough to give us money to help buy fireworks for next weekend. Mrs Lawson thinks we raised about £500 so THANK YOU very much for your generosity!

On Sunday we had our Halloween party at the school. Most of us attended and all dressed up. We all took in pumpkins that we had carved. There were lots of really good ones!

We had a parade to show off our costumes then played the corner game.

Then we split into two groups so we could start with a different game. The older ones went through to the classroom first and the younger ones stayed in the canteen then they swapped over after a while. In the canteen we could colour Halloween pictures or make little ghosts out of tissues. In the classroom you had to try and eat a pancake or a party ring that was tied onto a bit of string and covered in syrup or chocolate sauce. It was extremely messy but great fun!

After this we all came through to the classroom to play a different game. We had to get into 4 different groups, one at a time we had to run up to the table put our heads into a bowl of oatmeal and try to get as much witches fingers and cats poop into our mouths as we could and carry it over to our bowl on our chair before the next person could go. (It wasn’t really witches fingers or cat poop, just chocolate fingers and malteasers.) The team with the most in their bowl at the end won. After this game we played another one called mice pirls (again it wasn’t really mice pirls but raisins.) We had to use our mouths to carry one raisin at a time from the bowl on our chair to the bowl on the table at the other side. The team that got all their raisins in their bowl on the table won.

Once we finished these games we ducked for apples. We went against each other. This was the last game to play.

We had sooooo much fun at the party! Thank you to all that came and took part in the games!

Remember Remember The 5th of November

Today we looked at the Gunpowder Plot during literacy. There are a few different versions of the gunpowder plot but this is one of them…

In 1605 King James 1 was the King of England.  Not everybody in England liked him though. A man called Guy Fawkes decided he wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the King inside. Guy Fawkes and his friends planned to use gunpowder to blow it up. They put 36 barrels of gunpowder in the basement of the Houses of Parliament on November 5th – this was directly underneath the King’s throne.  The King received a letter that told him of the plot so he sent soldiers down to the basement to check…The barrels were found and Guy Fawkes and his friends were arrested for trying to kill the King. Guy Fawkes was tortured until he confessed to trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament.  He was hung, drawn and quartered.

Here is the poem ‘The Fifth of November’

Remember, remember the fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, ‘twas his intent
To blow up king and parliament.
Three score barrels were laid below
To prove old England’s overthrow.

By God’s mercy he was catched
With a dark lantern and lighted match.
Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring
Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King.

So every year on November 5th we remember the gunpowder plot and how it failed. We have a bonfire and set off fireworks outside.