Year 5 Blog 7th November
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 4:19pm
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A huge well done to our award winners this week!
Homework
Spellings
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.
Times tables
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 have started our new class text: Hidden figures. The children have explored the first few pages of the text and have completed a range of different activities to really understand the story. The children then looked at the story of Dorothy Vaughan and explored her thoughts and feelings within the story. The children then had to write in role, creating a diary entry with a focus on a character’s feelings.
Maths
In maths this week we have started our new topic on geometry and measures. The children have showed incredible resilience and determination when completing this unit as there have been lots of working out to solve an answer.
Science
In our science lesson this week we focussed on the Sun, Moon and Earth. We explored the different sizes of each of them. We were shocked how small the Earth was compared to the Sun. The children then took part in a debate exploring the idea that the Earth was flat. They had to work in pairs to explore a specific idea and then share this with a group. The children did really well with this, giving some very detailed responses.
