500 words 2017
In Year 6 this week we watched the live broadcast for the 500 words competition. In class we then wrote our own 500 words stories.
The competition
500 Words is now one of the most successful story-writing competitions for kids in the world. Nearly half a million pupils have written a story for them; that’s over 277 MILLION words!
It’s very simple. Entrants write an original story on any subject or theme in 500 Words or fewer and submit it online. If they win, their story will be read live on the radio by a superstar celebrity. There are also prizes to be won!
For more information check out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1
The 2017 competition is now open for entries! Submit your story here to be in a with a chance to join Chris at the 500 Words Final from the Tower of London.
Here is an example of a story that a child in Year 6 wrote:
Kidnapped
It was a dull evening; thunder struck the grounds of the cobbled streets as the man in the hoodie trembled down the miniscule alleyway. Lou was an ordinary girl that lived in an ordinary house but one day that all changed…
When the exhausting school day finished, Lou marched down the alleyway in pride, celebrating her victory in basketball. She had no real friends. The rough tree’s branches were bent-like-fingers as the street lamps flickered in the misty night sky. As she was whistling in the air, a 6foot man approached her with a dusty, cracked old van. The group of paper cups blew in Lou’s rosy red face as a pair of wrinkly hands grasped around her neck.
She was thrown into the empty space in the truck accompanying dead, hung up bodies; she began to feel timid. Lou’s blond hair stood on end. As the incautious van drove over the potholed streets, Lou prayed for her family and hoped to survive.
A few hours later, the deafening doors unbolted and Lou climbed out with masking tape wrapped around her body.
“What is wrong with me? Why do you keep me here?” There was no answer. Just then a lightning bolt struck onto the sultry mud and skimmed Lou like a shower; she was led into an opaque room with cobwebs surrounding her. A lump of dust towered over Lou with slabs of the wooden roof tumbling onto her poor, anxious head.
She examined the lucky people outside chatting, giggling and having fun whilst she was mentally and physically in pain. Suddenly, Lou could hear footsteps staggering down the polished floorboards as the figure released his first phrase in an unsettling voice. “Here’s your food for the day scoundrel.” When Lou peered at the mucky slop he had left for her, she realised it was the food that was leftover from his dog’s meal.
“Why are you treating me like this.” At that juncture, the cruel and odious man wandered out of the room whilst Lou cried and cried for her sister, who was the only person who cared about her.
As time passed she became more and more angry with him and she tried to create a plan; but as you may have guessed, he was much stronger than you would have thought.
She needed to create a plan to get back to her family or else she would disintegrate and never come back.
10 years have passed and she still hasn’t come out from that compressed and dusty cave and has never seen the man since. Will she ever get out? That’s only for you to decide.
By Abbi Year 6
