Year 5 blog 12th September

Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 9:09pm

Dear Parents, 

Welcome to the Year 5 blog 

What another wonderful week of learning in Year 5 , the children have made a fantastic start to the school year! 

Each week on the weekly blog you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings and times tables and lots more.

This weeks award winners: 

                                      A huge well done to our award winners this week! 

Homework 

Reading 

Reading is such an important skill that opens the door to all areas of learning. It not only helps children succeed across the curriculum but also sparks their imagination and strengthens their communication skills. You can support your child at home by enjoying books together, listening to them read aloud, and asking questions about the story. Even a few minutes of reading each day makes a real difference. Please ensure your child brings their book in everyday. 

Spelling 

For our spelling quizzes this year, there will be a list of 10 words sent home to learn. These words will all follow a spelling rule that we are learning in class that week. Our spelling quiz each Thursday will then consist of these 10  words as well as 10 words the children have previously learned. As homework, each child should  log into Spelling Shed and complete this weeks assignment using the link below.

 

Times tables 

Times tables are key within all areas of maths, not just for multiplication. Pleae can you log on to TT Rockstars to continue working on all your times tables. If you are unable to log in please come and see me and I can sort this for you. 

 

Our learning this week in Year 5

 

English

This week in English we have continued our work on The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The children have been focussing on emotions of characters within different parts of the story. They have written in role creating emotive diary entries and recounts. Next week we will be looking at editing and redrafting our work with a focus on grammar and handwriting.

 Maths 

In Year 5 this week we have continued to work on our unit of place value. The children have been ordering numbers from biggest to smallest and placed them correctly on a number line. We have started to round numbers to the nearest 10,100 and 1,000. 

Science 

In science we started our topic on materials. We had to use scientific vocabulary to describe different items to the class. We then worked in pairs to figure out the different materials being described. Can you identify the material that Mrs Ash has described?

 

Date for your diary- 

The Year 5 meet the teacher event will be on Wednesday 17th September at 9am. I look forward to seeing you there. 

Have a lovely weekend 

The Year 5 Team