Year 5 Friday blog 24th April 2026

Date: 24th Apr 2026 @ 3:33pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes and try to use expression. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

Here are Year 5 spellings for this week.  

ought, bought, thought, rough, tough, enough, cough, though, through, dough, although, disobey, misbehave, inactive, illegal, incorrect, autobiography, impossible

Counting

Count out loud in:

5’s up to 205 and back again                                                      0, 5, 10…

50’s from 19000 to 20050 and back again                              19000, 19050…

70’s from 770 to 1120 and back again                                     770, 840, 910…

Times Tables

Please keep practising your times tables.  Everyone will be doing mixed division next week in their weekly test.

Sumdog

Maths practise – individual challenge.

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

Year 5 have had a great first week back and come back eager to learn – well done Year 5!

In English Year 5 have been writing their own fairytale and they have also started their new class novel – ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’ by Kate DiCamillo.

 In Maths Year 5 have been practising measuring and drawing angles and have now moved on to a new topic about improper and mixed number fractions.

In RE this week, Year 5 have really enjoyed working in groups to re-tell the story of Pentecost in the form of a news broadcast. Fantastic job Year 5!

Early in the week Year 5 enjoyed an afternoon outside planting strawberries and splitting plants.

In Forest School we had a great session in the nature area. We were hunting for mini beasts and related this to learning we have been doing in class. Some of us built a stream with a dam, there was fabulous teamwork, problem solving and resilience shown. It did get quite muddy but there was brilliant learning going on.

Some of us did some stick wrapping and forest eyes. We showed creativity, imagination and it's really good for developing our fine motor skills.

In Computing, the class have started to practise their coding skills and enjoyed a lesson with Mr Campbell introducing this.

 Finally, Year 5 have really enjoyed lots of outdoor time this week, including playing cricket in PE.

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –  Emma   

Super Learner –     Bertie

Superstar Writer –      Alfie

Bookworm -  Trudy

Marvellous Mathematician  -   Josh W

Special Mention - Alana