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“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold …”

This is the first line of the poem “The Destruction of Sennacherib” that was written by George Gordon Byron, about the war between the Assyrians and the kingdom of Judah in 705 B.C.  I learnt and memorised the six stanza poem this year.  The Assyrian king Sennacherib had wiped out every single nation  that had come  in his  way. Now it was the people of  the kingdom of Judah’s turn. The king of  Jerusalem Hezekiah told his people to rely on their God.  Sennacherib sent a cup bearer to tell the people of Judah, that they had no chance of  victory. Jerusalem was like a bird in a cage, surrounded by the Assyrians. But the Assyrians never entered Jerusalem “For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed on the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their heats but onced heaved and forever grew still”  185,000 Assyrian soldiers died in their tents…”and the tents were silent the banners alone, the lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.” Sennacherib went back to Assryia where he was killed by his two sons.

By Joseph

Every November we  do fire works, they’ve  got heaps and different kinds. There is ten shooters and these small things that you light on fire and then you throw on the ground then they spin around  and there is so much more.  But there are some illegal fire works that you aren’t allowed to set off. Last year I went to the fire works show, that’s when the fire men set off  the illegal fire works, I said wow! Thats amazing but this year I missed out on all fire works.

By Daniel H