Year 5 Friday Blog - 20.06.2025
Date: 18th Jun 2025 @ 8:09am
Dear parents
Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings / times tables and lots more.
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 26th June. Every Thursday, the quiz will contain ten words from the spelling rule for that week plus two words from previous year groups. The ovweview for Summer 2 can be found on our class page.
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Words that are adverbs of time
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afterwards finally immediately recently earlier yesterday eventually tomorrow previously whilst arrive centre
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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.
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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 Romania! 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 Romania, bring that information into school.
What is the capital of Romania?
Bucharest is the capital city of Romania. It’s also the largest city in the country with a population of over 1.7 million people. Bucharest is the 8th most populous city in the European Union. Its name translates to “city of joy”.
📰🖌️This Week in English: A Mythical Adventure! 🌟
This week in English, the children took a dive into the world of mythology, crafting their very own newspaper reports on the legendary tale of Perseus and Medusa. 🐍✨
Not only did they focus on the factual retelling of this famous myth, but they also showcased their creativity by designing WANTED posters for Medusa herself, complete with a vivid description of her unique features and a summary of her alleged crimes.
This Week in Maths: Division Fun! 📊🔢
This week in Year 5, the children have been mastering division! 🌟 Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to:
🌍 What We Learned:
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Chunking: Children broke down big numbers (four-digit) into smaller parts to make division easier.
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Estimating: They rounded numbers before dividing, helping them get a quick idea of the answer.
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Written Methods: Using written chunking, the children wrote out their calculations and explored remainders as fractions.
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Mental Math: Children practised quick mental partitioning to solve division problems fast!
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Choosing Strategies: They picked the best strategy for each division problem, boosting their confidence.
RE
Exploring Faith in RE: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
This week in our RE lesson, the children examined the story from Daniel Chapter 3. In this tale, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego stand strong in their beliefs and refuse to worship King Nebuchadnezzar's golden statue. Because of their bravery, they are thrown into a fiery furnace, but miraculously, they come out unharmed! 🔥
To help understand this powerful story, the children created storyboards to retell the events and looked at how various artists have interpreted this remarkable story. 🎨✏️ It was wonderful to hear their discussions about faith, courage, and standing up for what they believe.
Art Week
Nextv week, we are beginning our project entitled 'Something Special.' As part of this project, we have thought about things that are special to us and explained the reasons why, going into detail about how they make us feel. We reflected on a worship from earlier in the week where Mrs Obertelli shared something that was special to her and explained whay and how it made her fel. I have asked the children to think about their ' something special over the weekend and either bring it in or a photograph of it for our art project next week.
Safeguarding - morning routine
Other news
🎤🌟 Darwin Rocks Performance! 🌟🎤
We are excited for the upcoming Darwin Rocks performance! Our children have been working hard and are ready to sing their hearts out.
For the performance, all children need to wear a black t-shirt. If your child has a black t-shirt with a logo or picture, that's fine! They can simply wear it inside out or back to front, so no need to buy a new one.
The Year 5 team