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The greenhouse effect investigation
Our planet is constantly affected by different forces and factors – many of which are caused by humans. We often hear about something called “the greenhouse effect”… but what is it? The greenhouse effect is when our planet heats up due to harmful gases collecting in our atmosphere. This simple investigation will show you how it happens!
Night and day investigation
What causes us to have a night and a day? Why is it night on one side of the Earth but day on the other? Let's investigate!
Life cycles card game
This game is designed to help you revise the key stages in different life cycles. The aim of the game is to collect all four stages in each life cycle.
Cleaning water experiment
In this activity you will learn how to clean some water!
11+ vocabulary flashcards
Download our free 11+ flashcards to help boost your child's vocabulary and practise for the verbal reasoning tasks of the 11+ exams.
Understand the Earth's movements
An investigation and activity sheet to help Y5 children consolidate their knowledge about the Earth and how it moves in space.
Shadow investigation
A Year 5 science investigation into shadows and what they can tell us about the position of the Sun in the sky.
Learning about the moon
Find out about the Earth's moon and then answer some true-or-false questions in this Year 5 science worksheet.
Rounding to 100,000
Remember, when rounding numbers you need to look at the column of the number you are rounding to, to see if the digit is 5, smaller than 5 or larger than 5. Can you round these numbers to the nearest 100,000?
Rounding numbers to the nearest 10,000
In Year 5 maths you will be working with very large numbers. This activity asks you to round numbers up to 1 million (1,000,000). You are rounding to the nearest 10,000.
How to add negative numbers
What’s so confusing about adding negative numbers? The fact that it doesn’t follow the rules of adding positive numbers! When you add negative numbers you are actually subtracting them. Here are some tips to help you understand and visualise this. Can you answer these sums now?
Year 5 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 5 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 5 Maths Challenge Pack
Get your child's maths brain fired up with puzzles, challenges and activities for Year 5 mathematicians.
Home education planning pack
If you've decided to home educate your child this learning pack provides guidance, templates and advice to get you started.
Year 5 proofreading: formal and informal language
Billy has written a letter to try to persuade his local council that a new park is needed in the area. The language is very informal. Do you think his letter will be taken seriously? Your task is to keep the ideas in the letter the same but rewrite it using the more appropriate formal language that is needed when writing a persuasive letter to someone you don’t know.
Y5 and Y6 tricky spelling words
Can you match up these tricky words to their correct definition? Use a dictionary to check if you’re not sure about their meaning, then use the Look, Cover, Write and Check method to learn to spell them.
Y5 spelling: unstressed vowels
In these sentences, can you find the words with unstressed vowel sounds, underline them and circle the sound?
Y5 and Y6 spelling wordsearch
Hidden in this wordsearch are some of the words from the Year 5/6 curriculum spelling list. Can you find them and highlight them?
Spelling: double consonants revision
The spelling words below, from the Y5 and Y6 list, all include a double consonant. Can you cut out the cards and arrange them to make a whole word, matching the double consonant on the first card with the end sound on the second card?
Proofreading: adding commas
Look at these list sentences. Can you correct them by replacing the word “and” with commas? Remember, you need to use “and” before the last item in the list.
Proofreading: adding brackets
Can you edit and improve each of these sentences by adding brackets (also called parentheses)?
Making new words with suffixes and prefixes
Look at the word list. Work out how many new words you can make by adding a prefix or suffix. Some of the words can have more than one prefix or suffix and be careful with the spelling as the words may change slightly!
Improving writing with expanded noun phrases
A noun phrase is a group of words that act in the same way as a noun. Expanded noun phrases improve a piece of writing by adding more information about the noun, making the text more interesting to read. Can you edit these sentences and improve them by matching them to one of the given expanded noun phrases?
Apostrophes to mark contraction
This text includes lots of words that could be shortened and replaced with an apostrophe (for example, I have = I’ve). This is called contraction. Circle all the words that could be shortened and write in the contraction.