Year 5 blog Friday 16th October 2026

Date: 16th Oct 2026 @ 4:05pm

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.

people because different  achieve  bargain  category  dragged  completely  happily  peace  limitation  simply  limited  forgotten  information  various  said  knot

Counting

Count out loud in:

even numbers from 50 to 80 and back again             50, 52, 54, 56, …

60s from 0 to 600 and back again                                 0, 60,120, …

8s from 0 to 104 and back again                                  0,8,16,24, …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. Most children are practising mixed division this week as a target.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

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

We have had a super learning week in Year 5.

In English we have been writing diary entries as Edmund, a character from our class story. We are also reaching the climax of our Narnia novel where the queen and Aslan have finally met at the stone table.

In Maths we are continuing to practise addition and subtraction using the column method. We have started a new topic on statistics – reading time tables.  

Our topic in RE this week was all about loving God and loving all people. We worked in groups to discuss and formulate ideas on how we could help the vulnerable in our communities.

Finally, in Geography, we used atlases to look up the key cities of the UK and also marked on key mountain ranges.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –  Jessica A (class vote)

Super Learner – William

Superstar Writer –   Francesca

Bookworm -   Georgie

Marvellous Mathematician -  Bobby

Special Mention -  Rory