THE Year 5 Teacher Toolkit

Lessons, ideas, assessments and templates for a brilliant year in Year 5

Year 5 is one of the best year groups to teach, and one of the busiest. The curriculum steps up from Year 4, there's lots of new content in fractions, decimals and grammar, and it's the last full year before Year 6.

I'm a Year 5 teacher, and I've put everything I wish I'd had in one place. The Year 5 Teacher's Toolkit is 132 pages of practical support: ready-to-teach lessons, pupil sheets, assessments, templates and guidance, all written for mainstream primary classrooms.

What's inside

13 ready-to-teach lessons, each with teaching notes, worked examples, a hinge question, pupil sheets and full answers:

• Maths: numbers to 1,000,000; multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000; factors, multiples and prime numbers; equivalent fractions; perimeter and area

• English: relative clauses; parenthesis; persuasive writing; inference (with an original short story)

• Science: air resistance; dissolving and separating mixtures; day and night

• PSHE: healthy friendships, online and offline

Every lesson includes Mild, Medium and Spicy pupil sheets, so the whole class can access the learning and confident pupils still get a challenge.

Plus nine more parts packed with support:

• Year 5 at a glance: what 9 and 10-year-olds are like, and the whole Year 5 maths, English and science curriculum in one place

• Setting up your classroom: a before-September checklist, layouts, working walls, routines, class jobs and a day-by-day first week

• Behaviour and relationships: what works with Year 5, rewards that don't feel babyish, calm scripts, friendship fallouts and online safety

• Planning the year: sample overviews for maths, English and science, class novel ideas and a time-saving planning routine

• Lesson ideas bank: 40 starters, 15 plenaries, morning tasks, early finisher ideas, brain breaks and ideas for every foundation subject

• Spelling, grammar and reading: the Year 5 and 6 statutory word list, spelling rules, a grammar guide, reading question stems and writing checklists

• Assessment: two arithmetic sheets, three termly maths checks, a non-fiction reading assessment and a writing checklist, all with answers or mark schemes

• Parents, reports and the calendar: a welcome letter, parent message templates, parents' evening tips, a report comment bank and a month-by-month Year 5 calendar

• 16 printable templates: weekly planner, lesson plan, seating plan, times tables tracker, exit tickets, marking codes, progress tracker and more

Who it's for

• Teachers new to Year 5, whether you're an ECT or moving from another year group

• Experienced Year 5 teachers who want fresh ideas and ready-made resources

• Supply teachers, cover supervisors and teaching assistants supporting Year 5

It's written for schools following the National Curriculum in England, and works alongside your school's own schemes and policies.

What you get

• An instant download of a 132-page PDF, ready to print

• An editable Word file, so you can adapt lessons, sheets and templates for your class

Why this toolkit?

Because it's written by a teacher who is in a Year 5 classroom right now. It's designed to save you hours of planning, give you resources you can use tomorrow, and help you enjoy one of the best years in primary school.

A whole year of Year 5 support for less than the cost of a single published workbook.

Please note: this toolkit is general guidance based on the National Curriculum in England and doesn't replace your school's policies or schemes of work. It is licensed for use by the buyer in their own classroom. You may photocopy pupil sheets for your own pupils, but please don't share, upload or resell any part of it.