Year 5 blog - Friday 17th October 2025

Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 4:00pm

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

Counting

Count out loud in:

4’s up to 104 and back again                                                      0,4, 8 …

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

200’s from 3200 backwards to 1600                                    3200, 3000…

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.

Please also continue to use the fluency booster on Sumdog.

Year 5 have had a fabulous week of learning and have put in 100% effort – well done!

In English the class have been continuing to learn about blending similes, relative clauses and sub-ordinating conjunctions in a natural way in their writing. The children enjoyed writing a diary entry as Edmund, as well as detailed decriptions of Aslan the lion.

 In Maths Year 5 have been consolidating their knowledge of subtraction using the grid method. Well done Year 5!

Year 5 have enjoyed discussing ways that they can help others in the world in RE this week. They have set themselves a mission to collect and bring in unwanted items like small toys, hair accessories, stationery and books. They are then going to be sent in decorated shoeboxes to a local organisation in Preston, who will then distribute them to children in need. All donations welcome.

 In Science, everyone enjoyed taking readings of their paper planes, both as a streamlined model and then after modifying it to add drag to the design.

Finally, in History this week, Year 5 took a  more in depth look at life in an Anglo Saxon village and created a chronological timeline.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –  Louie

Super Learner –  Alfie

Superstar Writer –   Teddy

Bookworm - Amelia  

Marvellous Mathematician -  Archie S

Special Mention -  Jack and Sam