Year 5 2025 – 2026

This will come home with your child on a Friday and is due back to school on the following Wednesday.

Reading  (15 – 30  minutes per evening, a minimum of 4 times a week)
Children need to complete a comment in their reading diary when they have read and initialled or signed by an adult.

Maths – Most children will have a Math workbork and will be set a page to complete each week. Some children will have a piece of maths work stuck into their homework books to reinforce their learning in class.

Grammar, punctuation and spelling – Some children will, again, have a workbook where they will be set a page to complete. Other chidlren will have set spellings with a range of activities to complete.

All children need to continue to practise their times tables and associated division facts up to 12 x12.

Spellings (Not Fresh Start or RWInc)

03.09.24 – infectious, ambitious, nutritious, ficitious, notorious, repetitious, amphibious, obvious, curious, devious

09.09.24 – atrocious, conscious, delicious, ferocious, gracious, luscious, malicious, precious, spacious, suspicious 

16.09.24 – artificial, beneficial, crucial, especially, facial, glacial, judicial, multiracial, official, special

23.09.24 – potential, essential, substantial, influential, residential, confidential, preferential, torrential, circumstantial, impartial

30.09.24 – financial, commercial, provincial, initial, spatial, palatial, controversial, initially, controversially, financially

07.10.24 – environment, immediately, sufficient, language, vegetable, thorough, cemetery, appreciate, convenience, conscious

14.10.24 – dominant, abundant, elegant, fragrant, distant, ignorant, tolerant, vacant, brilliant, constant

21.10.24 – hesitancy, extravagance, abundance, abundancy, elegance, dominancy, brilliance, vacancy, tolerance, relevancy

05.11.24 – emergent, violent, confidence, decent, eloquence, innocence, competence, frequent, intelligence, transparent

11.11.24 – comfortable, reliable, dependable, possible, understandable, horrible, reasonable, terrible, enjoyable, incredible

18.11.24 – comfortably, horribly, incredibly, visibly, terribly, reliably, dependably, legibly, sensibly, possibly

25.11.24 – available, accommodate, sincerely, suggest, twelfth, opportunity, controversy, marvellous, secretary, dictionary

02.12.24 – changeable, noticeable, manageable, agreeable, knowledgeable, replaceable, microwaveable, salvageable, rechargeable, irreplaceable

09.12.24 – afterwards, immediately, earlier, whilst, yesterday, recently, previously, finally, eventually, tomorrow

06.01.25 – reference, referee, referring, transference, transferring, preference, preferred, difference, inference, conferring

13.01.25 – no spellings due to assessment week

20.01.25 – wreath, wreckage, knight, knife, pterodactyl, writer, knuckle, mnemonic, knowledge, wrestler

27.01.25 – solemn, autumn, build, doubt, island, lamb, thistle, receipt, ascend, disciple

03.02.25 – symbol, yacht, equipment, amateur, pronunciation, awkward, criticise, excellent, foreign, ancient

10.02.25 – society, science, species, efficient, deficient, glacier, scientists, sufficient, emergencies, inefficient

24.02.25 / 03.03.25 – deceive, conceive, receive, perceive, ceiling, protein, caffeine, seize, either, neither

10.03.25 – bought, fought, thought, ought, nought, brought, wrought, afterthought, thoughtfulness

17.03.25 – though, although, dough, rough, bough, tough, enough, plough, doughnut, toughen

24.03.25 – aisle, isle, aloud, allowed, altar, alter, ascent, assent, farther, father

31.03.25 – accompany, communicate, conscience, desperate, disastrous, interfere, nuisance, queue, restaurant, rhythm

23.04.25 – No spellings

28.04.25 – advice, advise, device, devise, licence, license, practice, practise, prophecy, prophesy

06.05.25 – aisle, isle, aloud, allowed, altar, alter, ascent, assent, farther, father

12.05.25 – Continued from previous week

19.05.25 – guessed, guest, heard, herd, mourning, morning, past, passed, bridle, bridal

02.06.25 – cereal, serial, complement, compliment, principal, principle, stationary, stationery, wary, weary

09.06.25 – affect, effect, precede, proceed, draft, draught, dessert, desert, whose, who’s

16.06.25 – No spellings due to assessment week

23.06.25 – achieve, apparent, bargain, bruise, community, mischievous, muscle, necessary, vehicle, system

30.06.25 – Continued from previous week

07.07.25 – co-ordinate, co-operate, co-own, co-author, re-enter, re-examine, re-evaluate, re-educate, re-explain, re-emerge

Date	Homework pages
6.9.24	Maths – 11 (Roman Numerals) SPaG – 4,5,6,7 (nouns, verbs, modal verbs)
13.9.24	Maths – 7, 8, 9 (Place value, ordering numbers, powers of 10) SPaG – 15, 21 (clauses & conjunctions)
20.9.24	Maths – 10 (Rounding) SPaG – 26, 27, 28, 29 (Linking ideas in a paragraph, linking paragraphs)
27.9.24	Maths – 14 (Mental adding and subtracting) SPaG – 13 (Relative pronouns), 16,17 (Basic relative clauses)
04.10.24	Maths – 12, 13 (Written adding and subtracting) SPaG – 52, 53 (Brackets for extra information)
11.10.24	Maths – 15 (Rounding and checking) SPaG – 8 (Adjectives), 48, 49 (Commas for extra information)
18.10.24	Maths – 2, 3, 4, 5 (Year 4 Objectives Test) SPaG – 96, 97, 98 (Mixed Spelling Practice)
25.10.24	Maths – 18, 19, 20 (Multiples, Factors and Primes) SPaG – 18, 19 (Trickier Relative Clauses)
08.11.24	Maths – 16, 17 (Square and Cube numbers) and 21, 22 (Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100 and 1000) SPaG – 46, 47 (Commas after Fronted Adverbials) and 57 (Apostrophes for Single Possession)
15.11.24	Maths – 32 (Equivalent fractions) and 33 (Ordering fractions) SPaG – 24, 25 (Prepositions) and 39 (Sentence Practice)
22.11.24	Maths – 34 and 35 (Adding and Subtracting Fractions) SPaG – 36 (Capital Letters and Full Stops)
29.11.24	Maths – 27 and 28 (Progress Test 1) SPaG – 23 (Using conjunctions for cohesion)
06.12.24	Maths – 29 and 30 (Progress Test 1) SPaG – 62 and 63 (Punctuating Speech)
13.12.24	Maths – 23 (Mental Multiplying and Dividing) SPaG – 64 (Punctuating Speech in two parts)
10.01.25	Maths – 24 (Written Multiplication) SPaG – 90 and 91 (Words with Silent Letters)
17.01.25	Maths – 26 (Solving Calculation Problems) SPaG – 50 and 51 (Comma Practice)
24.01.25	Maths – 36, 37 (Multiplying with Fractions) SPaG – 54, 55 (Dashes for extra information)
31.01.25	Maths – 48, 49 (Progress Test 2) SPaG – 14 (Determiners)
07.02.25	Maths – 42, 43 (Ordering and Comparing Decimals) SPaG – 30 (Present Tense and Past Tense)
28.02.25	Maths – 38, 39 (Writing Decimals as Fractions) SPaG – 9, 10, 11 (Adverbs)
07.03.25	Maths – 40, 41 (Rounding Decimals) SPaG – 37 (Question Marks)
14.03.25	Maths – 44, 45 (Percentages) SPaG – 94, 95 (Homophones)
21.03.25	Maths – 46, 47 (Fraction, Decimal and Percentage Problems) SPaG – 88, 89 (Words with ‘ough’ in)
28.03.25	Maths – 56, 57 (Perimeter) SPaG – 86, 87 (“ei” and “ie” words)
25.04.25	Maths – 82, 83 (Line Graphs) SPaG – 67 (Headings and Subheadings)
02.05.25	Maths – 84, 85 (Tables and Timetables) SPaG – 68, 69 (Prefixes – ‘under’, ‘over’, ‘en’ and ’em’)
09.05.25	Maths – 66, 67 (Angles) SPaG – 40, 41 (Commas in Lists)
16.05.25	Maths – 68, 69 (Angle Rules) SPaG – 22 (Subordinating Conjunctions)
06.06.25	Maths – 70, 71 (Angles and Sides of Rectangles) SPaG – 44, 45 (Commas after Subordinate Clauses)
13.06.25	Maths – 74, 75 (Reflection) SPaG – 42, 43 (Commas to Avoid Confusion)
20.06.25	Maths – 76, 77 (Translation) SPaG – 72, 73 (Hyphenating Prefixes)
27.06.25	Maths – 58, 59 (Area) SPaG – 56 (Apostrophes for Missing Letters) and 58 (Apostrophes for Plural Possession)
04.07.25	Maths – 31 (Thousandths) SPaG – 60, 61 (Apostrophe Practice)
11.07.25	Maths – 6 (Counting Backwards through Zero) and 72, 73 (Regular and Irregular Polygons) SPaG – 70, 71 (Prefixes – ‘mid’, ‘pre’, ‘fore’ and ‘non’)