St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5 blog - Friday 12th September 2025
Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 4:14pm
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.
said with went people children asked school like thought through because friends water house too each different something
Counting
Count out loud in:
5’s up to 105 and back again 0,5,10,15…
30's from 240 to 510 and back again 240, 270, 300, 330…
100's from 5100 backwards to 3900 5100, 5000, 4900…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. We will be practising the 7 times table in class next week.
Sumdog
Maths practise – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.
Please also continue to use the fluency booster on Sumdog.
The class have had a very productive week of learning in Year 5 this week. The children have put 100% effort in which is great to see!
Year 5 continued to read the novel this week in English – ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and have been practising handwriting, using fronted adverbials, similes and expanded noun phrases.
In Maths the class have been looking at place value of decimals as well as practising lots of arithmetic and times tables. Well done Year 5!
In RE, the children have developed their knowledge of Moses, as well as having spent time discussing the meaning of each of the ten commandments.
Everyone also enjoyed the typography art topic this week with some very creative interpretations of letter styles!
In PE, Year 5 have moved on to practising shoulder passes and shooting in netball. They also enjoyed playing bench ball and dodgeball this week.
Finally, the week ended with their new geography topic about the UK. They were able to identify the similarities and differences between the four countries of the UK.
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Henry
Super Learner – Evelyn
Superstar Writer – Tiffany Mason
Bookworm - Mark
Marvellous Mathematician - Bertie
Special Mention - Brooke
Finally - if you didn't get a chance to come to Meet the Teacher on Wednesday, then you can take a look at the file attached to see what the outline plans are for Year 5 in the year ahead. If you would like to clarify any of the information then please contact the office to make an appointment.