St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5 Friday blog Friday 9th May 2025
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 3:44pm
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.
ought bought thought nought brought fought rough tough enough cough though although dough through thorough borough plough bough
Counting
Count out loud in:
8s up to 104 and back again 0,8,16,24…
60s from 240 to 720 and back again 240,300, 360 …
25s from 2125 backwards to 1925 2125, 2100, 2075…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Most of the class are learning square numbers for their test next week.
Sumdog
Maths practice based on fractions – individual challenge.
Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practice test on Sumdog.
Please also continue to use the fluency booster on Sumdog.
We have had another great learning week in Year 5.
We continued reading our new novel this week – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. We wrote as Edward and blended action, feelings and description.
In Maths we learnt how to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers, as well as continuing to add and subtract fractions with mixed denominators. There has been a lot of great progress this week!
In RE we have continued to discuss and explore the meaning of confirmation and chrism, and how the Holy Spirit is linked to this. We also spent time learning about how the new pope would be chosen.
To celebrate VE day we all created our own Union Jack flags – it is trickier than you think!
The week ended with us discovering how the Maya civilisation lived. A great week of learning Year 5 – well done!
Golden stars this week
Ronnie – star of the week
Libby – marvellous mathematician
Sam – super learner - trying hard all week
Willow – superstar writer
Ebba – bookworm for lots of home reading
Holly P – special mention for super listening