There are two age categories: 5-7 and 8-11 year-olds and spelling, punctuation and grammar are not marked - as has always been the case for 500 Words, it's all about our writers' brilliant creativity! There are prizes to be won - each winner will take home a bundle of books and the gold winners will also win 500 books for their school library.

If you would like to enter, write your 500 word story that you would like to read and speak to your teacher about the next steps!

We will be focusing on the following learning sequence:

• Add or multiply?

• Use ratio language

• Introduction to the ratio symbol

• Ratio and fractions

• Scale drawing and using scale factors

• Similar shapes

• Ratio problems

• Proportion problems

  
  

Miss Elliott's Group:

Fractions

• Multiplying Fractions

• Dividing Fractions

• Simplifying Fractions

• Word problems using Fractions

You can use the past papers we have already completed for revision. Please do not use any papers that are not listed below, as this could affect our ability to accurately understand your child’s progress.

Approved papers for revision:

• 2022

• 2017

• 2024

We will be focusing on:

- colons and semi colons

- relative clauses

- subordinate clauses

- words from the year 5/6 spelling list

Out ambitious vocabulary words for this unit are:

• relentless

• suffocating

• fractured

• oppressive

• precarious

• deteriorating

We will be focusing on the reading skills:

• predicting

• retrieval

• summarising

• inference

• evaluating author's choices

• clarifying unknown words

As we prepare for our SATs tests, we will also be looking at some unseen texts and using a mixture of these reading skills.

Topics we will cover include:

• identifying the main parts of the circulatory system and describing their functions

• understanding the structure and function of the heart

• investigating different styles of exercise and how they affect our heart rate

• understanding the different components in our blood

• investigating the effect of food on our circulatory system

This fortnight, we are looking at decimals. Lessons will cover:

• rounding decimals

• addition and subtraction including decimals

• multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1000

• multiplying and dividing decimals by integers

• decimal numbers in context

Fractions

This week please complete pages 28-33

Reading

Please complete pages 4-5

SPaG

Please complete pages 31-35

Angles and Shape

This week please complete pages 68-73

Please complete pages 20-24

This fortnight, we are looking at shape, angels and coordinates.

We are learning to:

• Measure and classify angles

• Calculate angles in triangles, quadrilaterals and polygons

• Calculate the radius, diameter and circumference of a circle

• Read and plot points in four quadrants

• Translate and Reflect using coordinates

Reading

Please complete pages 1-3

SPaG

Please complete pages 25-30

Easter Revision

Reading

Please complete pages 6-17

SPaG

Please complete pages 36-47

Ratio, Proportion and Scaling

Please complete pages 42-49

Please complete pages 10 - 21

Section Four - Ratio, Proportions and Algebra

Please complete pages 42 - 45 and 48 - 54

This section should now be totally complete.

Written Division pg 15

Fractions unit 29-40

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SPaG

Please complete pages 30-35

Easter Revision

Number and Place Value pages 1-9

Calculations pages 10-28

Please complete pages 64 - 67

Section Seven - Statistics

Please complete pages 82 - 89

Next week, we will be finishing the final section of the booklet (Section Six - Geometry). However, if you feel that you might need more support with this, please have a look this week!

Reading

Please complete pages 18-21

SPaG

Please complete pages 48-51

Measurement

Please complete pages 55-61

Please complete pages 22 - 28.

Sections 1 -4 should now be complete, if there is anything that you feel you need more practice with, please come and speak to me.

SPaG

Please complete pages

Please complete pages 55 - 64