Year 5 blog - Friday 2nd October 2026

Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 4:18pm

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.

Information,  adoration,  sensation,  preparation,  admiration,  poisonous,  dangerous,  mountainous,  famous,  various,  tremendous,  enormous,  jealous,  humorous,  glamorous,  vigorous,  courageous,   serious

Counting

Count out loud in:

12’s up to 168 and back again                                                      0,12,24…

70’s from 210 to 840 and back again                                       210, 280, 350…

200’s from 4200 backwards to 2800                                     4200, 4000, 3800…

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 fantastic week of learning and have put in 100% effort – well done!

In English the class have been practising blending action, dialogue and speech, writing as Lucy lost in the woods. Everyone also enjoyed creating and performing poems about Autumn for poetry week. The class also really enjoyed walking down to the library to meet Jen Carney the children’s author. They heard readings from her book and took part in some fun games and activities.

 In Maths Year 5 have started their new topic, practising adding and subtracting on a number line and using partitioning. Well done Year 5!

Year 5 have continued to explore the theological and cardinal virtues in RE this week and have been discussing how to apply them in practical habits every day. They all enjoyed creating role play scenarios about this and acting them out.   

In computing, the class have been developing their knowledge about search engine optimisation and algorithms used to decide what search engines show us in results.

Finally, the whole school celebrated harvest together in the church – great singing Year 5 and thank you to everyone that donated food.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –  Oscar

Super Learner – Eddie

Superstar Writer –   Daisy

Bookworm -   Jessica A

Marvellous Mathematician -  Heidi

Special Mention -  Oliver