Year 5 Friday Blog - 16. 05.2025

Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:45pm

Dear parents

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

Every Friday, the blog will be shared with the class to recap our learning and make them aware of their homework. Moving to online homework has allowed us to become a more eco friendly school. Throughout the week we will be learning about the spelling rule in preparation for the quiz on Thursday. Spelling frame can be used for practise along with the spelling strategies shared on the blog below.

Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Question prompts are provided within reading records asking questions improves key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference.

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below, our spelling quiz will take place on Thursday 22nd May. Every Thursday, the quiz will contain ten words from the spelling rule for tat week plus two words from previous year groups. The overview for Summer Term 1 can be found on our class page.

Tricky words

Sacrifice

Criticise

Muscle

Prejudice

Privilege

Language

Sincerely

Especially

Accident

Edge

Group

Heard

Times tables - Please use the Times Tables Rock Stars website to practise the times tables. We will be revising all times tables in year 5 and further developing related division facts. Times tables test will take place each Friday.

I will be keeping track of all children logging into both Spelling Frame and TT Rockstars. I recommend 10 minutes, every night, on each of the websites.

Our learning this week in Year 5

Discovering : Our Half-Term Spotlight 🌍

This half-term, we're excited to learn all about our spotlight country Bulgaria! Each week, we’ll share a fun fact about this amazing country. Children may want to get involved at home. If you find out something interesting about Bulgaria, bring that information into school. 🌊🏛️

bulgaria sozopol

The longest river in Bulgaria is the Danube. The Danube River forms part of Bulgaria's northern border and is one of Europe's major rivers. Other important rivers are the Maritsa, Iskar, and Struma rivers.
Lake Burgas, also referred to as Lake Vaya, this is the largest lake of Bulgaria.
The coastline at the Black Sea is 378 km/ 234 miles long. There you will find many popular seaside resorts such as Sunny Beach, Golden Sands, and Sozopol.

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✍️ This Week in English: Creative Inventions! 📚

This week, the children have been busy expanding their story plans based on the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret! 🎩✨

The children are dreaming up their own inventions, connected to Hugo's exciting journey.

This Week in Maths 🕒✨

This week in maths, the children have been learning how to convert different units of time! 🌟 They’ve been exploring both metric and imperial measures, using simple strategies to make these conversions easier.

With the help of a conversion graph, they’ve learned how to quickly figure out things like how many minutes are in an hour or how many days make up weeks.

RE

Exploring Leadership and Tough Decisions in RE This Week

This week in RE, the children thought about the hard choices made by Jochebed, the mother of Moses. We shared our own experiences of difficult decisions and discussed what helped us make those choices. 🌟

We also learned about Deborah, a key figure in the Old Testament Book of Judges. Deborah was the only female judge in the Bible and showed amazing leadership qualities. She worked as a Prophetess, resolving disputes and guiding the people of Israel during challenging times. 📜⚖️

Deborah’s strong relationship with God made her a respected leader. This week, we asked the children: What makes a good leader? 🤔

Here are some important qualities we talked about:

Empathy: Understanding how others feel.
Integrity: Being honest and having strong morals.
Decisiveness: Making choices confidently.
Vision: Knowing where to lead others.
Respectfulness: Gaining trust and admiration from others.

Science

This Week in Science: Parachute Investigations! 🪂

This week, the children have been exploring air resistance! They made their own parachutes using plastic bags, experimenting with different sizes to see how it affects their fall.

What We Did in Class

The children focused on measuring how various parachute sizes work with air resistance. They recorded their results on their recording sheets. This activity helped them learn about scientific methods while having fun!

Take a Look!

Visit our gallery for photographs of this exciting investigation and see the children in action! 📸🧑‍🔬

Courageous Advocacy: Water Walk
This year, our school council have been looking at ways we can save water as a school as well as
helping charities such as Water Aid to deliver clean water to other countries. As part of this theme,
the school council have organised a water walk on Wednesday 21st May. This will involve all
children walking around our daily mile track whilst carrying containers of water. There has been a
sponsorship form sent home with your child to raise money for Water Aid.

Safeguarding - morning routine

If you are dropping off your child at the classroom door / KS2 entrance door and need to pass a message on to a member of staff please do so by speaking to the staff member who monitors the door in the morning.

If you need to enter school for any other reason, adults can only enter the school building via the main school entrance and seek assistance from the school office team. If you are attending a meeting with a member of staff you must sign in at the front desk as a visitor and have an ID lanyard.

Thank you for your continued support in keeping our school and children safe.