Year 5 Friday blog - 30th January 2026

Date: 30th Jan 2026 @ 4:17pm

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 Year 5 spellings for this week.  

adorable  applicable  readable tolerable  changeable  noticeable  dependable  enjoyable  reasonable  comfortable  understandable  reliable  considerable  adorably  applicably   considerably   tolerably  moveable

Counting

Count out loud in:

12’s up to 180  and back again                                                      0, 12, 24…

200’s from 17000 to 23500 and back again                              17000, 17200…

60’s from 840 to 1440 and back again                                     840, 900, 960…

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 worked very hard this week with some tricky learning – well done!

In English the class have continued to use parenthesis in their writing, culminating in two differing predictions using their new skills. They have continued to follow Jim’s story in the class novel, ‘Street Child’ and are enjoying translating their knowledge of the workhouse into their set building project in Art.

 In Maths Year 5 have been focussing on using the 24 hour clock to interpret timetables, as well as continuing to work on fractions and decimal equivalents.  Well done Year 5.

In RE this week, Year 5 have shared the story of Jesus’ Transfiguration and the message behind it. They also learned about Saint Paul and the early Christian community.

In computing, the class continued to manipulate databases and learned how to use the ‘AND’ and ‘OR’ functions to sort by multiple fields.

 Finally, in Geography, the class have continued to explore volcanoes and research famous volcanoes from around the world.

Well done Year 5 on another great week of learning!

Golden stars this week

Star of the Week –    Sidney

Super Learners –     Spencer

Superstar Writer –     Emma

Bookworm -  Brooke  

Marvellous Mathematician  -  Sienna

Special Mention -    Evangeline