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Remember Remember The 5th of November

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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.

Achievements

Cullivoe School Wins Best in children’s Baking

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We entered our cake into the novelty cake section in the Yell Show on the 3rd of September. It was the best cake there as it received a first AND won ‘Best in children’s baking’.  It was a tough competition as there was other great cakes in this category.  We made other little sheep and entered these into a different category – we got a well done and a second for these. Emma and Jessica bought the little cakes and the Lawson’s bought the big cake. They took some of the cake into school for us to eat on the Monday, it was very sweet.

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Preparing for the Yell Show

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On Monday 29th of August we decided we would make a cake to enter into the Yell show. We had to decide what to make and decided on a sheep cakeas it is an agricultural show. Then on Thursday the 1st of September we baked the best cake anyone has ever seen! The whole school baked with Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson.  We worked as a team and got into groups to make a different part of the cake. There was a team making the icing, a team making the big cake and 4 groups making fairy cakes (this was for the sheep). Ruby, Abbie and Jasmine designed how the cake would look thinking about the icing, the fencing and where the sheep would go. At golden time on Friday we decorated the cake – icing the big slab of cake to make it look like a park, we used curlywurlys and chocolate fingers to make a fence then decorated the individual fairy cakes to make them look like sheep by using mini marshmallows. Kane made one cake look like a dog. Miss Nicholson had bouht edible flowers so we used these to decorate the cake and used chocolate chips to make it look like sheep pirls.