Year 5 blog 5th June
Date: 5th Jun 2026 @ 3:12pm
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Dear Parents,
Welcome to our weekly blog where you will find out about what we have been doing in class, homework and important updates.
A huge well done to our this weeks awards winners!
Project work
This week, we introduced the Dragon’s Den project to the children. They have the exciting opportunity to create their own product and present it to a panel of judges.
Children can choose to work either independently or in pairs to complete this project. There is no expectation for them to spend any money. Instead, we ask that when presenting their product, they are able to clearly explain its purpose, outline how much funding they would need to make it successful, and describe how it would be made.
In previous years, children have used a variety of presentation methods, including PowerPoint presentations, flashcards, and posters, to support their pitches.
We will be presenting to the judges on Wednesday 24th June.
If you have any questions, please feel free to send an email and I will get back to you.
Homework
This week's spellings are listed below. There are activities assigned on Spelling Shed for your children to complete based on our new spellings. The children are tested weekly on a Thursday.
Reading
We ask the children to read as much as possible as there are huge benefits to this within all areas of the curriculum. Children can bring their book back into school any day and they are able to change them independently. Could you please encourage your children to read as much as possible and record this in their reading record.
TT Rockstars
Please encourage your child to access their TT Rockstars account and complete tasks and challenges on the website to practice their times tables.
English
This week in English, we continued our work on The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The children read the next chapter of the book and explored how characterisation through speech can enhance their writing.
We focused on using the acronym SEAT to develop dialogue, and we were very impressed with how much their conversations between two characters improved as a result.
Maths
In Maths this week, we have been focusing on place value. The children have been reading and writing numbers up to 1 million, as well as exploring the value of each digit within these numbers.
We then looked at how to represent and place these larger numbers accurately on a number line.
Can you answer the question below using what we have been looking at this week to help you?
The Year 5 Team