Year 5 Blog Friday 2nd May 2025

Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 3:36pm

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.

grief  brief  mischief  pierce  fierce  niece  pier  patient  deceive  conceive  receive  perceive 

ceiling  protein  seize  science  ancient  glacier 

Counting

Count out loud in:

6s up to 120 and back again                                               0,6,12,18…

40s from 240 to 840 and back again                              240,280,320 …

30s from 2130  backwards to 1920                                 2130,2100,2070 …

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are on division targets for testing next week.   

Sumdog

Maths practise based on fractions – individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.

Please continue to use the fluency booster too!

We have had another great learning week in Year 5.

We have started our new novel this week – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. We have also enjoyed writing short, fictional stories this week.     

In Maths we have started to re-cap fractions, including mixed numbers, equivalent fractions and improper fractions. Well done everyone with this.

Following our talks about the Holy Spirit, we all enjoyed critically evaluating various famous paintings of the Holy Spirit before moving on to focus specifically on the sacrament of Confirmation and how the Holy Spirit is a fundamental part of this Sacrament.

In computing, we have started our computer science topic and we are using code.org to practise our programming skills. 

The week has ended with lots of atlas work as we learn about the continent of South America. A super week Year 5 – well done!

Golden stars this week

Holly W – star of the week

Luiza – marvellous mathematician

Cian – super learner for a super effort with writing

Joe – superstar writer

Maisie – bookworm for lots of home reading

Eddie – special mention for looking after our school

Tommy – special mention for kindness shown to others in class