Year 5 blog Friday 5th December 2025

Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 3:46pm

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. They mainly relate to the use of suffixes.

vicious, conscious, malicious, suspicious, fictitious, infectious, nutritious, cautious, gracious, spacious, vivacious, precious, ambitious, delicious, tenacious, soldier, shoulder, vegetable

Counting

Count out loud in:

5’s up to 180  and back again                                                      0, 5,10 …

10’s from 16980 to 18010 and back again                               16980, 16990, 17000…

50’s from 0 to 1250 and back again                                          0, 50, 100, 150…

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 worked incredibly hard this week– a super effort all round!

In English the class have been exploring various types of non-chronological report and have started to research and plan to write a report of their own. In their sports reporting session this week, the class focussed on being a sub editor and checking for errors in reports.

 In Maths Year 5 have shown incredible resilience in their arithmetic, reasoning and tables assessments this week and have also been practising long division and chunking.

In RE this week, Year 5 have been learning about the O Antiphons, special songs that are sung at Vespers in the run up to Christmas. They have also made their own advent promises to prepare for Jesus’ arrival.   

The whole class enjoyed the Santa dash this week. Everyone looked so festive and gave 100%. Thank you Year 5!

Finally, in computing, Year 5 have continued their topic on video production and editing. They have started to experiment using the clips app to record and edit clips of footage.

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –   Teddy

Super Learners –   Milo

Superstar Writer –     Archie P

Bookworm -    Trudy 

Marvellous Mathematician  - Jenson 

Special Mention -   Brooke