Year 5 blog Friday 9th January 2026

Date: 9th Jan 2026 @ 3:50pm

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 relate to the list of statutory words that Year 5 and 6 have to learn.

conscience  conscious  controversy   convenience  correspond  criticise  curiosity  definite  desperate  determined  develop  dictionary  disastrous  embarrass  environment  equipped especially exaggerate

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 returned to school with a really positive learning attitude– a super effort all round Year 5!

In English the class have started a new novel called, ‘Street child’, by Bertie Doherty. They have started to discuss how people without money lived in Victorian times in London, where the book is set. They have been practising building up their sentences into complex ones, with lots of detail included.

 In Maths Year 5 have been focussing on multiplication methods of large numbers, as well as practising calculating the area of various shapes..

In RE this week, Year 5 have been learning about the Beatitudes; Jesus’ guide for us on how to be happy in life. The class have also been comparing them to the ten commandments and looking for links between the two sets of guidelines for life.   

In computing, the class spent some time discussing how to keep safe online, as well as working in groups to create ideas for new community based apps, where children with like minded interests could share ideas and socialise remotely.

Finally, in RSE, the class have been discussing and exploring how every person is created in the image of God and recognising that, as children, they are developing from baby through to adolescent, and recognising how changes happen at each stage of childhood. The focus was on the social and emotional changes children go through as they transition to becoming teenagers.    

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –   Evelyn

Super Learners –   Edward

Superstar Writer –   Jack   

Bookworm -     Evangeline

Marvellous Mathematician - Willow

Special Mention -    Josh W