Year 5 blog - Friday 15th May 2026

Date: 15th May 2026 @ 3:49pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

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

Spelling

Here are Year 5 spellings for this week.  

led  lead  past  passed  stationery  stationary   steal  steel  who’s  whose  ascent  assent bridal  bridle  cereal  serial  compliment  complement

Counting

Count out loud in:

4’s up to 204 and back again                                                      0, 4, 8 …

90’s from 19000 to 20080 and back again                              19090, 19180…

300’s from 700 to 3700 and back again                                   700, 1000, 1300…

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 enjoyed a varied week of learning and shown great enthusiasm– well done Year 5!

In English Year 5 have been writing stories, including writing predictions about Edward’s next stage of life from the novel and showing off their writing skills such as similes, interesting sentence starters, challenging vocabulary and relative clauses.

 In Maths Year 5 have been working on their geometry skills. The whole class enjoyed making 3d shapes from nets, including pentagonal prisms and tetrahedrons. They also experimented with various containers, measuring out water and converting millilitres to litres and vice versa.

In RE this week, Year 5 have been exploring the purpose of annointing within the seven sacraments. They have explored the use of chrism and its significance.  The whole school also attended the Ascension Day mass in church and Year 5 did a great job of being buddies for Year 1. Well done Year 5!

This week Year 5 enjoyed another forest school session with Mrs Corbett.   They discussed how to be safe around the fire and made sweet treats by filling a cone with their own concoction of orange, banana, marshmallows and chocolate spread.

 In Art, the class have been working in groups to create small houses out of foam board, with space saving features.  They all worked together really well – great team work Year 5!

In science, the class started a new topic on materials – looking at properties and grouping various materials. They learned about what is transparent, opaque, brittle and what materials conduct heat or insulate.

 Finally, Year 5 continued their topic on Maya civilisation, learning about the three groups in the Maya and the different things they traded with each other. Everyone enjoyed the trading game as different tribes. 

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week – Spencer   

Super Learners –     Archie S

Superstar Writer –      Franco

Bookworm -   Sam

Marvellous Mathematician  -   Brooke

Special Mention – Amelia and Louie