using a block of flash as eeprom

I want to use block of flash(16KB) as eeprom.
I am using STM32F205RBT6 & keil 4.72.

What I have to do:
1. Store 5Kb of user data & retrieve it on startup.
2. Flash endurance of 10000 cycles is good for my project & I have fixed 16Kb block for it.

What I have done is :

1. OPtion for target-> target-> (check)IROM1 ; Start 0x8000000 ; size 0x4000 OPtion for target-> target-> (check)IROM2 ; Start 0x8008000 ; size 0x18000

i.e fixing flash block 0x80004000 fix for eeprom whose size is 16Kb

2. Flah write code for 5Kb data:

void flash_write(void)
{
    uint32_t address = 0x08004000;
    uint32_t data;
    uint32_t cnt = 0;

/* read entire sector */
    while(address < 0x08008000)
    {
        data = *(__IO uint32_t*)address;

        flah_union.data_u32[cnt++] = data;

        address = address + 4;

    }

/* fill the array */
    for( cnt = 0 ; cnt < 5120 ; cnt++ )
    {
        flah_union.data_u8[cnt] = g_ft232_arr_data[cnt];
    }

/* unlock flash */
    FLASH_Unlock();

    /* Clear pending flags (if any) */
    FLASH_ClearFlag(FLASH_FLAG_EOP | FLASH_FLAG_OPERR | FLASH_FLAG_WRPERR | FLASH_FLAG_PGAERR | FLASH_FLAG_PGPERR|FLASH_FLAG_PGSERR);

/* erase the entire sector */
    if (FLASH_EraseSector(FLASH_Sector_1, VoltageRange_3) != FLASH_COMPLETE)
    {
      /* Error occurred while sector erase.
         User can add here some code to deal with this error  */
      while (1)
      {
      }
    }

/* write back array */
    address = 0x08004000;
    cnt = 0;

    while(address < 0x08008000)
    {
        if (FLASH_ProgramWord(address, flah_union.data_u32[cnt++]) == FLASH_COMPLETE)
        {
            address = address + 4;
        }
        else
        {
            while (1)
            {
            }
        }

    }

    FLASH_Lock();

}

3. Flash read code for 5Kb data:

void flash_read(void)
{
    uint32_t address = 0x08004000;
    uint32_t data;
    uint32_t cnt = 0;




/* read entire sector */
    while(address < 0x08008000)
    {
        data = *(__IO uint32_t*)address;




        flah_union.data_u32[cnt++] = data;




        address = address + 4;




    }




/* fill the array */
    for( cnt = 0 ; cnt < 5120 ; cnt++ )
    {
        g_ft232_arr_data[cnt] = flah_union.data_u8[cnt];
    }





}

My queries:
1. Do I need to disable interrupts before reading or writing to flash even if I had defines separate block for eeprom, as I said earlier.

2. Since I am writing to flash & also while write to flash, code is getting executing from flash i.e code for reading/writing flash. Do I need to move the code to Ram?
If yes how