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October half term – outdoors activity day offer at Coombe Abbey
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BBC ‘500 words’ story-writing competition
Do you love writing stories? If so, why not write a story and enter this year’s BBC ‘500 Words’ children’s story-writing competition? Follow the link below to find out more. All entries must be submitted by Friday 10th November.
There are two age groups for the competition:
5-7 year-olds and 8-11 year-olds.
Use your creativity and imagination to write a story you would love to read
The competition will be judged by the well-known authors, Malorie Blackman, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Lenny Henry, Charlie Higson, Francesca Simon,
There are some amazing prizes on offer this year, so why not write a story and talk to your teacher about sending it in?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/500-words/about-500-words-collection/zj9b8p3
50 finalists, along with their parents or carers, will be invited to attend a grand final next February at Buckingham Palace!. The bronze, silver and gold winners of each age group will have their stories read by celebrities and published with illustrations by famous illustrators Joelle Avelino, Axel Scheffler, Fiona Lumbers, Sue Cheung, Jamie Smart, and Steven Lenton. There will also be a special ‘500 Words’ programme with the The One Show, on World Book Day on 7 March 2024.
You could also win a pile of books the height of Lenny Henry, Queen Camilla or an average 7- or 11-year-old!
This year, there will also be an amazing random draw prize. Every story submitted will be entered into a random prize draw. One lucky winner will receive a ticket to the final and a bundle of books, and their school will also be given 500 books and a literacy wall art – of their choice, to promote the love of story-telling.
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Christmas Shoebox appeal
This year, we are taking part in the Christmas shoebox appeal to support people who will otherwise not have gifts at Christmas. Can you help us by saving any shoeboxes you may have and bringing them into school please? We will also be looking to collect any small gifts that we can use to fill these shoeboxes.
We will need to collect together our shoeboxes by the start of October half term (Friday 27th October) to get the shoeboxes to the charity in time for them to be shipped.
The list to the right shows the items we will be looking to collect. It would be great to start collecting these over the next few weeks. Our plan is to collect as many gifts together as we can and see how many shoeboxes we can fill. If you can help us with any one of the items to the right (or maybe more over this half term), that would be brilliant. We will be asking our ambassadors to work together to pack the boxes before half term and write some messages for the people who will receive them.
Thank you!
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World population hits 8 billion
In Geography this half term, Year 6 have been learning about population growth and how this will affect the world’s development. This brief, but interesting report from the BBC summarises population growth and how we reached 8 billion this month. It also discusses how population is expected to grow in the future and where that growth is most likely to take place.
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Primary Maths Challenge (Y5 and Y6)
The Primary Maths Challenge is coming up very soon. This competition, set up each year by the Maths Association, is a fun way to get you thinking about Maths. Why not have a look at the past papers from the challenge to get an idea what to expect? Follow this link to find out more:
https://www.primarymathschallenge.org.uk/downloads
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