Grade 5

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This comprehensive Grade 5 Social Studies curriculum empowers students to become responsible, civically engaged citizens. The course explores the foundational structures of society, guiding learners through the complexities of governance, culture, and their environment. Key focus areas include:

  • Governance and Democracy: Understanding leadership roles, the three arms of government, pressure groups, and social justice.
  • Civic and Cultural Values: Fostering national consciousness, loyalty, unity in cultural diversity, and the value of hard work.
  • Personal and Family Well-being: Exploring family dynamics, personal hygiene, physical development, and essential personal security measures.

Through these engaging topics, learners build a strong foundation for understanding their rights and responsibilities within their communities.

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This Grade 5 Basic Science and Technology curriculum offers a comprehensive foundation for young learners to explore the natural and technological world. Students will discover how everyday systems work through hands-on activities, ranging from making soap to building simple electrical circuits. The course equips students with essential practical skills and scientific knowledge across several key focus areas:

  • The Environment and Living Things: Environmental conservation, plant reproduction, and human anatomy.
  • Basic Technology: Material maintenance, drawing instruments, and internal motor vehicle parts.
  • Energy: Energy conversion, temperature, basic electricity, and magnetism.
  • Information Technology: Computer operations, gaming, and safe internet usage.

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This Grade 5 Creative Arts curriculum offers an engaging, hands-on exploration of visual design, theatrical performance, and cultural heritage to foster students’ creativity and moral development. The interactive program is structured around these key focus areas:

Customs and Traditions: Understanding the history, various trades, and the societal importance of the traditional apprenticeship system.

Arts and Crafts: Building practical skills through different types of drawing, card making, paper weaving, mosaics, calabash painting, and exploring traditional architecture.

Performing Arts and Entertainment: Mastering the fundamentals of music theory and solfa notation, learning rhythmic dance motifs, and using foundational acting techniques to create plays based on values like honesty.

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This General Maths curriculum equips Grade 5 students with a strong mathematical foundation. Designed to connect quantitative reasoning with real-world applications, this course guides learners through practical scenarios like making financial transactions, calculating geometric measurements, and tracking daily statistics. The subject’s key focus areas include:

  • Everyday Statistics: presenting environmental data, calculating central tendencies (mean and mode), and conducting probability chance experiments.
  • Numbers and Basic Operations: mastering counting in millions, fractions, percentages, and foundational arithmetic.
  • Algebraic Processes: logically solving for missing values using open sentences.
  • Mensuration and Geometry: exploring currency, lengths, area, volume, capacity, and the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

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The Grade 5 Pre-Vocational Studies curriculum is a comprehensive, hands-on program designed to equip students with essential everyday life skills. This engaging course fosters independence and practical knowledge through the following key focus areas:

  • Agricultural Production: Techniques for growing crops, controlling weeds and pests, and rearing farm animals.
  • Family Living & Resource Management: Understanding family functions, values, and the proper use of personal and family resources.
  • Clothing & Textiles: Exploring the types, uses, and care of simple sewing tools and basic stitches.
  • Food & Nutrition: Identifying cooking tools, maintaining food safety, and practicing various cooking methods.

Through a blend of interactive discussions and physical projects, this subject successfully prepares students for basic domestic responsibilities and early vocational exploration.

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Equip your Grade 5 students with essential physical and life skills through our comprehensive Physical and Health Education curriculum. This engaging program blends active physical training with vital health awareness to promote holistic student well-being. The curriculum is thoughtfully structured around the following key focus areas:

  • Basic Movement & Athletics: Rhythmic activities, fitness measurement (endurance, strength, speed), and field events like long and high jump.
  • Games & Sports: Team-building and skill development in volleyball, basketball, football, hockey, and tennis.
  • Health & Disease Prevention: Fundamentals of nutrition, drug education, and understanding communicable versus non-communicable diseases.

By combining practical exercises with interactive classroom discussions, students are empowered to develop lifelong fitness routines and make informed health choices.

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This Grade 5 English Language curriculum is a comprehensive program designed to build confident communicators across four core focus areas.

  • Grammatical Accuracy: Pupils will improve their sentence structure by correctly applying verb tenses, active and passive voices, and direct and indirect speech.
  • Reading: Students will master phonics, expand their vocabulary, and analyze main ideas and implied meanings in both fiction and non-fiction texts.
  • Writing: Learners will develop their practical skills by crafting narrative and descriptive compositions, as well as formal and informal letters.
  • Listening and Speaking: The course encourages clear verbal expression through structured debates, telephone etiquette, and personal oral presentations.

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Sample Timetable

Day | TimeMorningAfternoon
MondayGeneral Mathematics
TuesdayPre-Vocational StudiesCreative Arts
WednesdayBasic Science and Technology
ThursdayEnglish LanguagePhysical and Health Education
FridaySocial Studies