Year 5 blog Friday 9th October 2026

Date: 9th Oct 2026 @ 4:10pm

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 are homophones so the children need to understand the meanings of each type of spelling.

accept, except, ball, bawl, berry, bury, grate, great, groan, grown, knot, not, medal, meddle, peace, piece, scene, seen

Counting

Count out loud in:

9’s up to 189 and back again                                                      0,9,18 …

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

100’s from 3200 backwards to 1600                                    3200, 3100, 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 another great week of learning and have tried very hard – well done!

In English the class have been learning about relative clauses and sub-ordinating conjunctions to upscale their writing. The children enjoyed writing an imaginative short story, using new joining words.

 In Maths Year 5 have continued to practise addition and subtraction on number lines, using partitioning and compensation strategies, as well as re-visiting column addition. Well done Year 5!

Year 5  have been talking about the significance of the rosary this week, as well as creating beautiful prayers based on virtues for our classroom.   

 In Science, the class have been designing aerodynamic paper planes and testing them to see how far they would fly.

Year 5 have also been applying their typography and design skills in Art this week, as they have started to create their own 3D maps of Narnia.

Finally, in History this week, Year 5 have been discovering how historical sources work and debating how accurate they could be.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –  Albie

Super Learner – Noah

Superstar Writer –   Emilia

Bookworm – Violet Ca

Marvellous Mathematician -  Hunter

Special Mention -  Lewis