Year 5 blog Friday 12th December 2025

Date: 12th Dec 2025 @ 4:11pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. They relate to the use of -tial and -cial suffixes.

special  official  artificial  partial  confidential  essential  martial   crucial  torrential  racial  prudential  beneficial  presidential  social  glacial  commercial initial twelfth

Counting

Count out loud in:

7’s up to 147  and back again                                                      0, 7,14 …

10’s from 16980 to 18010 and back again                               16980, 16990, 17000…

1000’s from 0 to 25,000 and back again                                  0, 1000, 2000, 3000…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  Everyone has their own targets, which the children should have noted on the top of their spelling sheet.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.

Year 5 have shown superb listening skills this week and kept going with a great work ethic, despite all the excitement and anticipation of Christmas – well done!

In English the class have been writing their non-chronological reports, using some really challenging vocabulary. They have also impressed Gareth this week with their sport blogging skills. A super effort Year 5!

 In Maths Year 5 have continued to develop their multiplication and division skills, using various methods, including the compensation method and partitioning.

In RE this week, Year 5 have been critically evaluating ‘O Antiphon’ art and creating their own.  They have also reflected on week 2 of Advent, with its message of peace and made great contributions in the Celebration of The Word assembly about how to practically be peacemakers and hope givers in the run up to Christmas..   

In Art, the children have been painting pictures, based on a poem, ‘the Ghost in the Garden.’

Finally, in computing, Year 5 have continued their topic on video production and editing. They have been creating storyboards ready to create the videos in groups next week.

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –   Sienna

Super Learners –   Evangeline

Superstar Writer –     Archie S

Bookworm -     Alana

Marvellous Mathematician  -  Josh W

Special Mention -   Tiffany