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Thursday Evening 31st January 2008

Great Fun at the Games Night

The games night on Thursday was a lot of fun with families and teachers sharing table games together. We played Beetle, Quizzes and Bingo. It was a horrible wet night weather-wise but everyone agreed it was worth venturing out for ! Thanks to teaching assistants and parents for their help – especially the ones who made the beetle biscuits.

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Click Here to Discover the rules of BEETLE
Have a game at Home !!!

AND
Haven't you always wanted to know

ALL THE CALLER'S NAMES

FOR ALL THE NUMBERS

BINGO

well here they all are...........

1. Kelly's Eye
2. One Little Duck
3. Cup of Tea
4. Knock at the Door
5. Man Alive
6. Tom Mix
7. Lucky 7
8. Garden Gate
9. Doctors Orders
10. Tony's Den
11. Legs Eleven
12. One Dozen
13. Unlucky for Some
14. Valentines Day
15. Young and Keen
16. Sweet Sixteen
17. Dancing Queen
18. Coming of Age
19. Goodbye-Teens
20. One Score
21. Key of the Door
22. Two Little Ducks
23. Thee and Me
24. Two Dozen
25. Duck and Dive
26. Pick and Mix
27. Gateway to Heaven
28. Over Weight
29. Rise and Shine
30. Dirty Gertie

31. Get up and Run
32. Buckle my Shoe
33. Dirty Knee
34. Ask for More
35. Jump and Jive
36. Three Dozen
37. More than Eleven
38. Christmas Cake
39. Steps
40. Naughty Forty
41. Time for Fun
42. Winnie the Pooh
43. Down on your Knees
44. Droopy Drawers
45. Halfway There
46. Up to Tricks
47. Four and Seven
48. Four Dozen
49. PC
50. Half a Century
51. Tweak of the Thumb
52. Danny La Rue
53. Stuck in the Tree
54. Clean the Floor
55. Snakes Alive
56. Was she worth it
57. Heinz Varieties
58. Make them Wait
59. Brighton Line
60. Five Dozen

61. Bakers Bun
62. Turn on the Screw
63. Tickle Me 63
64. Red Raw
65. Old Age Pension
66. Clickety Click
67. Made in Heaven
68. Saving Grace
69. Either Way Up
70. Three Score & Ten
71. Bang on the Drum
72. Six Dozen
73. Queen B
74. Candy Store
75. Strive & Strive
76. Trombones
77. Sunset Strip
78. Heavens Gate
79. One More Time
80. Eight & Blank
81. Stop & Run
82. Straight On Through
83. Time for Tea
84. Seven Dozen
85. Staying Alive
86. Between the Sticks
87. Torquay in Devon
88. Two Fat Ladies
89. Nearly There
90. Top of the Shop

Perhaps 10 should now be Gordon's Den or Tony's Old Den!!

Teachers and teaching assistants had a fun competition using the class cameras .

These are the winning entries. You can see how pleased we were in the first one with the schools national rating. You need to know two meanings of the word pupil to appreciate the second one.

Winners of the Photo & Caption Competition.

1^st – Mr Reed for the caption to go with picture of Mr Murray

“63^rd in the country…WHOO _ HOO!”

2^nd – Mrs Morley for the picture of herself.

“Mrs Morley can’t control pupils!”

Remember - Remember -The Fifth of November.........

The Bonfire Night Story

Four hundred years ago, in 1605, a man called Guy Fawkes and a group of plotters attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London with barrels of gunpowder placed in the basement. They wanted to kill King James and the king’s leaders.

Why did Guy Fawkes want kill King James 1st and the king’s leaders?
When Queen Elizabeth 1st took the throne of England she made some laws against the Roman Catholics. Guy Fawkes was one of a small group of Catholics who felt that the government was treating Roman Catholics unfairly. They hoped that King James 1st would change the the laws, but he didn't.

Catholics had to practise their religion in secret. There were even fines for people who didn't attend the Protestant church on Sunday or on holy days. James l passed more laws against the Catholics when he became king.

What happened?
A group of men led by Robert Catesby, plotted to kill King James and blow up the Houses of Parliament, there the laws that governed England were made. Guy Fawkes was one the group.

The plot was simple - the next time Parliament was opened by King James l, they would blow up everyone there with gunpowder.

The men bought a house next door to the parliament building. The house had a cellar which went under the parliament building. They planned to put gunpowder under the house and blow up parliament and the king.

Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes Discovered
Guy Fawkes was given the job to keep watch over the barrels of gunpowder and to light the fuse. On the morning of 5 November, soldiers discovered Guy hidden in the cellar and arrested him. The trail of gunpowder at his feet would never be lit.

Guy Fawkes was taken to the Tower of London. He was tortured and questioned about the other plotters. To start with he didn't tell the soldiers anything about the plot. But, eventually he started to tell the truth.

A Celebration
In celebration of his survival, King James ordered that the people of England should have a great bonfire on the night on November 5^th.

The event is still commemorated annually in England on 5 November by fireworks and burning ‘guys’ (effigies) on bonfires. The searching of the cellars of Parliament before the opening of each new session, however, was not instituted until 1678.

Clifton Green has a very successful Breakfast club which has been running since October. We start at 8.00am and see the children to their classes at 8.45. The charge is a £1 a day payable at the time. Children can come for one to five days. The children are given a breakfast of cereal and toast and a drink.

At the present time there are a few vacancies so anyone who would like to join us please contact Mrs Bennett or Mrs Coombes in school.

And here's a great link to the fun
activities and information about Katie Morag books
that 2AC are reading this term

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