Year 5 blog - Friday 14th November 2025

Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 3:56pm

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 prefixes.

disappoint,  disagree,  disobey,  misbehave,  mislead,  misspell, inactive, incorrect,  illegal,  misunderstood,  inaction, invisible,  misplace, impossible,  unable,  unaware,  midday

Counting

Count out loud in:

4’s up to 112 and back again                                                      0, 4, 8 …

40’s from 160 to 520 and back again                                       160, 200, 240…

100’s from 11,200 backwards to 8,000                                    11,200,  11,100, 11,000…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  Everyone has their own targets.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

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

Year 5 have had another great week of learning, not to mention all the rehearsing – well done!

In English the class have continued to read and discuss the class novel, ‘Escape from Shangri-La’ by Michael Morpurgo. They also thoroughly enjoyed developing their writing skills as sports journalists with Gareth from Literary Kicks. He will be visiting Year 5 every week until Christmas.

 In Maths Year 5 have been continuing to practise their measuring skills, including working out the perimeter of various irregular, multi-sided shapes. Everyone tried really hard to be accurate with this.

In RE this week, Year 5 have been reading and discussing the bible story about David and Goliath and how David’s absolute faith in God ensured that he defeated Goliath and protected God’s people from slavery.

Finally, the class have been discussing what it means to be a true friend and what to do when things get tricky in relationships. They have been very positive and resilient in practising their friendship assembly and it was very heart warming to see them all perform so well. A huge well done Year 5!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –  Trudy

Super Learner –  Elena and Henry

Superstar Writer –   Tiffany

Bookworm - Caleb 

Marvellous Mathematician -  Mark

Special Mention -  Elena for helping in class and all of Year 5 for their superb behaviour and attitude at Rock and River.