26.9.25

 Year 6,

It has been another busy week. You have revised adding and subtracting, common factors and multiples, and divisibility rules in maths. In English, you revised active and passive voice, read more of our book and wrote a piece on the impact of inspection on the arriving man. In RE, you learnt about the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah as it was that time of celebration. In Science, you classified using the Linnean system and in art you created cityscapes using photomontage techniques.

Next week, we begin with our Sky trip! Then, we will study prime, square and cube numbers in maths, and plan and write reports in English. In science you will consider the characteristics of creatures and in RE you will learn about Yom Kippur as it will be Jewish New Year. The Book Fair also arrives next week so you will have a chance to look through the books during the school day to see if anything catches your eye. 

 

Home Learning

This week for English, you will be completing the Book Fair Competition sheet.

Maths pages 4 and 33

 

You also have your half term project to be working on. We watched last year’s live lesson but did not get a chance to watch this year’s Live Lesson so I have attached the link should you wish to (Listen very closely to Lenny Henry's shout outs!).

500 Words 2025 – Live Lesson - BBC

500 Words Challenge

I would like all Year 6 children to write a piece that could enter the BBC's 500 Words Challenge. All you need to do is write a story you would love to read in 500 Words or less.  Spelling, punctuation and grammar are not marked - it's all about creativity! It is up to you as to whether or not you submit your story officially but you are still expected to bring a copy of your finished piece into class on 20^th October to share. We will be participating in a Live Lesson in September which can support this if you are finding it challenging, but feel free to begin writing as soon as inspiration hits you.

For those who enter the competition, 50 finalists will be invited to a star-studded grand final in February 2026, which will be supported by Her Majesty The Queen. If that's not enough, each winner will also see their story be read aloud by a superstar celebrity on TV, which will be shown as part of a special 500 Words programme with The One Show. The official panel of celebrity judges, Sir Lenny Henry, Malorie Blackman, Francesca Simon, Charlie Higson and Frank Cottrell-Boyce will crown the winners. 

There are also lots of prizes to be won - each winner will take home a bundle of books and the gold winners also win 500 books for their school library. In addition to the book prizes, each of our winning stories will receive a framed illustrated cover produced exclusively by top children's illustrators.

Children can only submit one story each. There are very few rules on 500 Words but a few points to remember:

All the stories must:

• Be 500 words or less (title is not included in the number)
• Be written by an individual and not a group
• Be a child’s own original idea
• Be prose, not rap or poem

Stories must not:

• Give any personal details of the child, including their name
• Recount an historical event (but they can use a real person or historical character as a source of inspiration)
• Be created, written or developed by AI

In every 500 Words competition, all stories are judged on the following criteria:

• Characterisation
• Plot
• Originality
• Language
• Enjoyment

 

Reminders

 - Sky trip on Monday - full school uniform, packed lunch and water bottle needed for everyone. Be here for your normal time but definitely before 8.50am as we are aiming to leave then! We will have lunch once we get back at about 1pm. 

- PGL - you need to be registered on Arbor to be included in our numbers. We will be providing these to PGL shortly so check with your adult that this is done. 

You should be:

 -        Reading 5 times a week and completing a reading journal activity once a week

 -        Practising spellings each week between the pre-test and test; writing spellings at least 5 times and writing 10 of them into sentences (ensure that these are high quality and make sense) in your Home Learning Journal (set on Monday and completed for Friday)

 -        Completing the piece of English and piece of Maths set each week (set on Wednesday and completed for Monday)

 -        Practising maths on Sumdog

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Cresswell 😊