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This project bring together 6 Special Schools from EU all with a slightly different area of focus and expertise but all school are aware of the social isolation of their pupils. Our project aims to tackle this issue and enable our pupils to play a more productive and involved role in our European society. Our efforts aim to ensure we raise skill levels of these vulnerable students and have a direct and life long impact on the connectivity with society in general.

Friday, November 5, 2021

The English 5th November - Thornfield House School, Belfast Northern Ireland

 Whilst most of the Celtic countries (Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) in the UK celebrate Halloween, either as the Winter Festival and have bonfires or All Saints Day Eve, a Christian reminder of the faithful who have died.

England have always celebrated the 5th of November.

This is a reminder of Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, when James I, his son and all the protestant leaders of the time would be there to open Parliament.  He was discovered and killed for treason.  James I decreed that the 5th November should always be remembered.

This was after the reformation when Protesters broke away from the Catholic Church.  They were called Protestants.  There was a Holy war between the Protestants and Catholics it was in the Middle Ages and both sides thought they were doing God’s work!

In England, they used to make up a dummy guy and pull him round the houses with a request not for treats, but a Penny for the Guy.  The Guy was then burnt of the bonfires on the 5th of November.

Here are videos  to the story and the song.

             story

       The song

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