Year 5 Friday blog 10th October 2025

Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 3:48pm

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, mail, male, 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

NEW - Year 5 have been entered into a School Sumdog competition so please encourage your child to take part and help boost the class points.

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. Well done Year 5!

Year 5 attended parish mass this week and they behaved so respectfully and shared their knowledge of the readings with Father Michael. Well done to all!  They have also been talking about the rosary this week, as well as creating beautiful prayers based on virtues for our classroom. Year 5 also enjoyed learning about Saint Carlo Acutis, a young saint and they explored how he used his short life to spread the word of God.

 In computing, the class have been designing websites and considering why certain websites appear in the top of searches online.

Year 5 have 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 Geography this week, Year 5 used the atlases to identify and locate key physical features of the UK, such as key rivers and mountain ranges.

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –  Franco

Super Learner –  Maisie

Superstar Writer –   Lily

Bookworm - Willow  

Marvellous Mathematician -  Josh W

Special Mention -  Emma and Edward