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Year 5 · usually aged 9 or 10 · Phase 2
Year 5 maths and English
Maths, reading and writing lessons for Year 5, matched to the 2026 New Zealand Curriculum. Your child starts where they are, follows a short daily plan, and you see how they're going.
What Year 5 learns
The big ideas this year.
Maths
Place value past 10,000, decimals to hundredths, money and change, a.m. and p.m. times, angles, grid maps and chance.
English
Summarising, reported speech, complex sentences, commas and apostrophes, spelling patterns, and writing stories and persuasive pieces.
Not sure which year your child is in? NZ year levels and ages explains it.
The lessons
Every Year 5 lesson in Study Compass.
Maths
Number and algebra (12)
- Big numbers: reading, writing and ordering past 10 000
- Tenths and hundredths
- Cash and change
- Factors and multiples
- Comparing fractions
- Add and subtract fractions
- Multiplying big numbers
- Division and what to do with the remainder
- Is it reasonable?
- Budgets and best buys
- Fact families for multiplication and division
- Finding unknowns in multiplication and division
Measurement (6)
- How long did it take? (am, pm and durations)
- Naming angles
- Choosing exact units
- Perimeter and area of shapes
- 24-hour time
- Measuring angles
Space (4)
- Grid maps and pathways
- Nets
- Slides, flips and turns
- Prism cross-sections
Statistics (2)
- Collecting data
- Planning an investigation
Probability (3)
- Chance words
- How likely is it?
- Chance experiments
English
Reading (9)
- Text structure
- Persuasion and audience
- Summarising
- Clues across a text
- Who tells the story?
- Imagery and metaphor
- Talking about books
- Reading harder texts
- Diagrams and graphs
Writing (4)
- Narrative with depth
- Persuasive writing that sounds reasonable
- Editing against a checklist
- Speaking and handwriting (at home)
Grammar and punctuation (7)
- Said it, or reported it?
- Complex sentences
- Sentence openers
- Commas and apostrophes
- Precise words
- Reasonable opinions
- Who you're talking to
Spelling (3)
- Letters with two sounds
- Word parts
- Tricky plurals
Each lesson has a short explainer, a quiz and five levels of practice. New lessons are added each term.
Spelling
Year 5 spelling.
- Letters with two sounds: patterns like -ough (though, through, cough, rough) and -ea (bread, bead) where the letters stay but the sound changes.
- Word parts: base words, prefixes, suffixes, and word origins (tele = far, graph = write) to spell new words.
- Tricky plurals: plurals like knives, cacti, mice, heroes; and how suffixes change a word's job (kind → kindness, enjoy → enjoyment).
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