Year 5 Blog - Friday 27th February 2026

Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 3:57pm

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 Year 5 spellings for this week.  

determined  develop  dictionary  disastrous  embarrass environment  equipped  especially  exaggerate   excellent  existence  explanation  familiar  foreign  forty  frequently  government  harass

Counting

Count out loud in:

11’s up to 166 and back again                                                      0, 11, 22…

50’s from 19000 to 21000 and back again                              19000, 19050…

40’s from 840 to 1440 and back again                                     840, 880, 920…

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 been very creative and expressive this week – well done Year 5!

In English the class have been practising learning and performing poems in small groups. This is to build their confidence and performance skills. Everyone did really well. Year 5 have also started reading their new novel, ‘Varjak Paw’ by SF Said.

 In Maths Year 5 have been re-capping their division and have started to learn divisibility rules for large numbers. Everyone has tried hard with this.

In RE this week, Year 5 have been investigating the meaning of Ash Wednesday as well as symbols and themes relating to Lent and what they mean.

In Art, the class have started a new topic on cityscapes and landscapes. They practised their sketching skills for landscapes this week.

The whole class enjoyed accessing a new presentation application called CANVA in computing this week. They learned how to animate and create AI images in presentations on the Victorians.

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –     Jack

Super Learner –     Evelyn

Superstar Writer –      Josh W

Bookworm -  Joni

Marvellous Mathematician  -   Maisie

Special Mention -    Franco