St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5 Friday blog - 26th June 2026
Date: 26th Jun 2026 @ 4:04pm
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.
grief brief mischief pierce fierce niece pier patient deceive conceive receive perceive ceiling protein seize science ancient glacier
Counting
Count out loud in:
7’s up to 140 and back again 0, 7, 14…
250’s from 17000 to 23500 and back again 17000, 17250…
25’s from 1500 to 2250 and back again 1500, 1525, 1550, 1575…
Times Tables
Please keep practising your times tables. Everyone has their own targets, which the children should have noted on the top of their spelling sheet.
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 week of learning– well done Year 5!
In English Year 5 been drafting, editing and publishing a short story, using all the skills they have learnt over the year such as parenthesis, relative clauses, direct speech and complex sentences.
In Maths Year 5 have been re-capping place value of both large and small decimal numbers. They have also been converting measure from metric to imperial.
In RE this week, Year 5 have studied psalm 23 and discussed what spiritual truths lie within the psalm.
The whole class enjoyed the Dance From the Heart session and put on a great performance.
Year 5 ended the week with researching Manaus, a city in the Amazon in geography. Well done Year 5 on surviving the warm weather and trying so hard despite the heat!
Golden stars this week
Star of the Week – Josh W
Super Learners – Willow
Superstar Writer – Archie S
Bookworm - Spencer
Marvellous Mathematician - Mark
Special mention - Milo