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Year 5 Downloads

These year 5 free worksheets cover year 5 maths, year 5 literacy, and many other aspects of the curriculum. Use our free printable worksheets including English worksheets and maths worksheets to support the teaching in year 5 at home. These valuable ks2 resources will enhance your child’s learning and are packed with activities and exercises for year 5 children.
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Learning activity - TV schedules
This download will help your child to understand and use a multi-channel TV schedule and compare and contrast the content and target audience of each TV channel.
Learning at home - Writing for myself
This great download is great for learning at home, it will encourage your child to practice writing skills, helping to improve handwriting and spelling.
Maths worksheet - Angle hunt
This great maths worksheet will help your child to recognise right, acute and obtuse angles.
Learning game - Up, up and away
This learning game will help your child develop their geography skills by asking them to identify places and describe what they are like. It will also help them collect information to develop ideas.
Kid's activity - Poetry prose
This fun kid's activity will help your child extend their vocabulary and to look writing prose and poetry in different ways.
Learning game - The enchanted place
This learning game will help your child to investigate the possibilities of using different media. It will also help them to develop an understanding of poetry and imagery.
Learning activity - Wanted! A witch's cat!
This learning activity will help your child to organise information logically and make decisions about relevant and irrelevant information.
Learning games - If only...
This fun learning game will help your child to develop their questioning, speaking and research skills.
Say 'thank you' with this free certificate for your teacher!
Get the kids to thank their teachers at the end of the school year with this fantastic printable certificate!
Learning activity- Are you a good speller?
This fun learning activity will help your child to explore the relationship between words and pictures and to think about starting points. It forms part of the art and design curriculum and asks children to design a page for a book of spells.
Gardening for kids
A great way to help children learn about nature, the environment, not to mention healthy eating, is to encourage them to try a spot of gardening. This gardening for kids activity sheet will show you how!
Outdoor learning - Trekking and walking
Give your child a taste of outdoor learning by taking them on an organised walk. This fact-sheet will help you think about all the different things your child could learn while out and about.
Camping for kids
Stuck for kids' activities? Try this handy camping fact-sheet full of ideas and ways to get the kids enjoying the outdoor life. And it's full of learning potential too!
Learning activity - Industrial change
This learning activity will help your child to understand that cause and effect is an important part of understanding and interpreting history.
Key Stage 2 worksheet - Historical sources
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help your child to think historically and develop the understanding that evidence can be found in many forms.
Printable worksheet - The way we travel
This printable worksheet will help your child to think in a historical way and to develop an understanding of cause and effect.
Learning activity worksheet - It's electrifying!
This fun learning activity will help your Key Stage 2 child to understand the role that electricity plays in the home.
Communication worksheet - Communicating messages
This communication worksheet will help your child think about the different ways we communicate and how this has changed over the years.
Science learning resource - Bikes are us!
This science learning resource will help your child to understand the importance of design in engineering and encourage them to ask probing questions about vehicles work.
Key Stage 2 worksheet - Detective work!
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help to extend your child's understanding of magnetism and will encourage scientific thinking.
Science worksheet - Gravity!
This science worksheet will deepen your child's understanding of gravity and offer an opportunity to illustrate that understanding.
Key Stage 2 worksheet - Quick tricks
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will teach your child simple techniques to help them remember how to spell words.
Spelling worksheet - Words in words
This spelling worksheet will help your child to create and spell new words using a limited number of letters and help them to practise general spelling.
Maths problem - Supermarket sweep
By solving this maths problem worksheet your child will be able to practise calculations and develop their knowledge of simple percentages.
Key Stage 2 maths - It's likely
This Key Stage 2 maths worksheet will help your child to develop their maths skills by teaching them language associated with probability.
Maths worksheet - It's freezing
This maths worksheet will help your child to develop their maths skills by teaching them to use negative numbers in their everyday life.
Literacy worksheet - The poet's notebook
This literacy worksheet will help your child to look at words in different ways and discover words they have not used before.
English worksheet - Winter nights
This English worksheet will help your child gain some insight into the development of a poem and help them to think and write in an imaginative way.
Primary school worksheet - Haiku
This primary school worksheet will not only help your child to extend their vocabulary, but will also aid their understanding of poetry and the different forms poems can take.
Comprehension worksheet - Dilemma
This comprehension worksheet will help your child to discuss topical issues and to understand that their actions might have consequences.
Key Stage 2 worksheet - On the move
This fun Key Stage 2 worksheet asks children to make a collage of different modes of transport and will help them to select and use appropriate equipment to evaluate their work.
Free English worksheets - Seeing the other way
This free English worksheet will help your child to write a balanced report on a controversial issue and summarise fairly the competing views.
Primary worksheets - How to argue
This primary worksheet will help your child to construct an effective argument and develop a point logically and anticipate objections.
Literacy worksheets - This is your life!
This literacy worksheet will help your child to develop information gathering skills and develop the skills of autobiographical writing.
English worksheet - The great debate
This English worksheet will help your child to construct an argument in note form to persuade others of a point of view and present a point of view to their class.
Key Stage 2 worksheet - What's your point?
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help your child to draft and write letters for real purposes and comment on an emotive issue.
Free worksheets - Did you know?
This free worksheet will help your child to plan, compose, edit and refine short non-chronological reports and explanatory texts, using reading as a source, focusing on clarity, conciseness, and impersonal style.
Primary school worksheets - Logging on
This Primary school worksheet will help your child to write instructional texts and test their instructions.
English worksheets - Tell the world!
This English worksheet encourages your child's imagination by asking them to create their very own advertisement.
Comprehension worksheets - I believe!
This comprehension worksheet will help your child practice assembling and sequencing points in order to plan the presentation of a point of view, eg. on hunting, school rules.
Key Stage 2 worksheets - Let me explain
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help your child to write explanations of a process and use technical words.
School worksheets - Picture this
Part of our series of school worksheets, this download will help your child to collect information and produce a labelled diagram.
Free worksheets - News just in!
This free worksheet will help your child to recount an event in the form of a news report and understand the way language is used in this format.
Key Stage 2 worksheets - My dear friend
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help your child to recount an event in the form of a letter and understand the layout of a letter.
Children recipe - Teatime Treat
This children recipe download will help your child to write instructions in the form of a recipe and recognise the importance of using the correct order for instructions.
Key Stage 2 worksheets - Playing the game
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help your child to practice writing intructions eg. rules for playing games, recipes, using a range of organisational devices, eg. lists, dashes and commas for lists in sentances.
Writing worksheets - Party Poster
This writing worksheet will help your child to understand that information can be shared in different ways and write in sentences.
Year 5 maths - Good Health
This year 5 maths download will help your child to extract and interpret data from tables and charts.
Key Stage 2 maths - Read the label
This key stage 2 maths download will help your child to extract and interpret data from tables and charts.
KS2 worksheets - What a bargain!
This KS2 worksheet will help your child develop their understanding of percentages.
Multiplication worksheets - Buying in Bulk
This multiplication worksheet will help your child to multiply and divide decimals mentally by 10 and 100.
Maths worksheets - Broken Biscuits
This maths worksheet will help your child to use their number skills to solve problems.
Year 6 maths - Weight a minute!
This year 6 maths download will help your child to practice their number skills to solve real-life maths problems involving money and measures.
Fractions worksheets - Sweet Shop
Fractions worksheets will help your child to relate fractions to division and calculate number problems mentally.
Year 6 maths - Bread
This Year 6 maths download will help your child practice choosing and using appropriate number operations and ways of calculating (mental, mental with jottings, pencil and paper) to solve problems.
Fractions worksheets - Pizza Party
This fractions worksheet will help your child to recognise simple fractions that are several parts of a whole.
Key stage 2 maths - Fruit and Veg
This key stage 2 maths download will help your child practice choosing and using appropriate operations to solve word problems.
KS2 fractions - Chocolate Fractions
This KS2 fractions download will help your child to recognise simple fractions and find fractions of shapes and numbers.
KS2 worksheets - Cheese Counter
These KS2 worksheets will help your child practice ordering numbers to at least 1,000 and position them on a number line.
Homework sheets - A sense of place
This homework sheet will help your child to develop an awareness of different materials that can be used in artwork.
Key stage 2 worksheets - What's in the news?
This key stage 2 worksheet will help your child to be more aware of places and news around the world.
English worksheet - Global eye
This english worksheet will help your child write a balanced report of a controversial issue.
Writing worksheets - Local people are concerned
This writing worksheets will help your child to plan, compose, edit and refine short non-chronological reports.
KS2 science - Rubbish!
This KS2 science download will help your child to learn more about our environment and what they can do to help.
Key stage 2 science - Power!
This key stage 2 science download looks at environmental and technological aspects of daily life.
Art worksheets - Exploring patterns
This art worksheet investigates patterns.
Writing worksheet - Something to say
This writing worksheet will help your child to present a point of view in writing eg. in the form of a letter.
Learning games: Tale of Despereaux - Cheese Game
To celebrate the release of The Tale of Despereaux on 19th December we have a special cheese game avaliable to download.
Tale of Despereaux
To celebrate the release of The Tale of Despereaux on 19th December we have a special wordsearch avaliable to download.
Kids worksheets - Get me out of here!
Part of our series of kids worksheets, this download will help your child to think about their own strengths and weaknesses and justify the choices they make to solve a problem.
Free English worksheets - Here's How!
This free English worksheet will help your child to communciate clearly without using words and think about the needs of others.
Printable for kids - Playground Action
This printable for kids activity will help your child to play an active role as a member of the school community and think about the needs of different groups in the school.
Science worksheet - Try it out
This science worksheet will help your child to find answers to questions that can be investigated scientifically.
KS2 science - Keeping Cool
This KS2 science download will help your child to apply their problem-solving skills to a scientific challenge.
Printable work sheets - SOS
This printable work sheets will help your child to think creatively about different kinds of responsibilities and rights.
Science worksheets - In disguise
This science worksheet will help your child to use their imagination to explore ideas about designing for a purpose.
Primary school worksheets - It's Mine!
This primary school worksheet will help your child think about how their actions affect others and see things from other people's perspectives
Year 5 maths - Measuring Myself
This year 5 maths worksheet help your child to use suitable units to estimate and measure length, mass and capacity.
Math worksheets - Time to Go!
Using one of our math worksheets will help your child to use 24-hour clock notation and use a timetable.
Key Stage 2 maths - Measuring
This Key Stage 2 maths download will help your child to think about the right units and equipment to use to measure different everyday things.
Algebra help worksheet - You've been framed!
Is your child struggling with algebra, help is at hand. This worksheet will help your child to work out the perimeter and area of everyday objects and relate their use of maths to real life.
Maths Quiz - Secret Squares
This maths quiz activity will help your child to calculate and measure the area of rectangles.
Maths worksheets - Water Work
These maths worksheets will help your child to estimate and count measures or read them from scales.
Mathematics worksheet - Matching Measures
This mathematics worksheet will help your child to practise matching the full names and abbreviations of common standards of measure with the things we use to measure.
Time worksheet - Testing Time 1
This time worksheet will help your child to use, read and begin to write the vocabulary related to time.
Learning games - Word Search 2
This learning game will help your child to identify the words we use to talk about time.
Worksheets - Word Search 1
This worksheet will help your child to identify the words we use to talk about length.
Mathematics download - Watery Maths
This Mathematics download will help your child to practise the vocabulary associated with capacity. eg. 'This container holds more water than that container'. It will also help your child to practise the measurement of capacity using a simple measuring device (such as a cup).
Literacy worksheets - Acrostics
This literacy worksheet will help your child to write an acrostic poem.
Writing worksheets - Loony Limericks
This writing worksheet will help your child to investigate rhyme and humorous verse and write a limerick
KS2 worksheets - My favourite poem
This KS2 worksheet will help your child to think about and describe the poetry they most enjoy and describe why they like it.
Learning games - Mighty Metaphors
This learning game will help your child begin to understand the difference between a similie and a metaphor, and put them to use in descriptive writing.
Writing worksheets - Personification
This writing worksheet will help your child to improve their descriptive writing and develop their use of metaphor.
Literacy worksheets - Riddling Rhymes
This literacy worksheet will help your child to use and develop different techniques of writing descriptive language.
Reading and writing - Kennings
This reading and writing activity will help your child to practise using few words to create a highly descriptive account.
Is your kid’s handwriting placing him or her at disadvantage?
Find out all about kids' handwriting practices, letter-writing habits and general thoughts and feelings on the subject of improving handwriting skills here.
Free worksheets - To Be You
This free worksheet will help your child to use their imagination about their everyday experiences to write a poem.
Key Stage 2 worksheets - The Magic Door
This Key Stage 2 worksheet will help your child write a poem.
English worksheets - Sounds Alive!
This english worksheet download will help your child to use rhythm in words and movement to present a poem to an audience.
Grammar worksheets - Similes
This grammar worksheet will help your child to understand similes and develop their writing.
Comprehension worksheets - Making Changes
This comprehension worksheet is for your child to do on his or her own.
KS2 worksheets - It's all lies!
This ks2 worksheets will help your child to choose adjectives and verbs for best effect in imaginative descriptive writing.
Literacy worksheets - Body Listening
This literacy worksheet will help your child to experiment with a range of words, choosing those that create the best effect in a poem.
Maths problems - Weather! Whatever!
This maths problem will improve your child's maths skills.
KS2 worksheets - Toss you for it!
This KS2 worksheet will improve your child's maths skills.
Maths quiz - Spinning tops
This maths quiz will improve your child's maths skills
Key Stage 2 maths - Probably, possibly, maybe?
This Key Stage 2 maths worksheet will help your child to become more familiar with the language of probability.
Comprehension worksheets - If only...
Our comprehension worksheets will provide opportunities for developing questioning skills.
Learning games - Guessing Game
This learning game forms part of the English curriculum. It will develop understanding of speaking and listening skills.
Printable maths worksheet - The die is cast!
This printable maths worksheet will help your child to understand relationships between numbers.
Year 5 maths - Cross or what?
This year 5 maths download will improve your child's data and probability skills.
Key stage 2 worksheets - A question of sport
This key stage 2 worksheet will improve your child's speaking and listening skills
Maths problems - Counting Cars
This maths problem forms part of the numeracy curriculum. It will develop data handling skills and understanding
Listening activities - Can you see with your ears?
This listening activity will improbe your child's speaking and listening skills.
Budget Tracker Spreadsheet
This comprehensive budget tracker will help you keep track of your finances. The spreadsheet will help you keep track of your spending over 12 months.
Basic Budgeting worksheet
This basic budgeting worksheet will help you to clearly see your monthly income and expenditure.
PTA - Representing other parents
Parent governors are elected by all the parents/carers of the pupils at the school. But how exactly do they manage to keep in touch with what parents' views are?
How a parent governor can make a difference
This article looks at events that have brought a parent governor face to face with some tough fundamental questions. How do governors make a difference? How best can governors, headteachers and the senior management team work together to meet their vision? And where do the boundaries lie between them?
One parents experience of being a School Governor
Here's how one parent govenor faced the task of appointing a new headteacher in an outer London borough primary school.
Primary ICT - Word Processing Skills Adding Graphics
Your children can use this primary ict download to learn how to add graphics to their Word documents.
ICT skills - Word Processing Skills Editing Text
This ict skills download will teach your children how to edit text in Word
ICT skills - Word Processing Skills Using Word
This ict skills download will introduce your children to Word
Primary ICT - Word Processing Skills Formatting text
This primary ict download will teach your children how to format text in Word.
Primary ICT - Word Processing Skills Drawing
Your children can use this primary ict download to learn how to use the drawing toolbar.
Personal Budget Worksheet
Use this form to determine what you have been spending over the last 6 months or year. You can then use the form to prepare a new budget with new goals and targets shown in each spending category.
How to help your child get used to a new teacher
This parenting guide suggests some ways for you to help make the settling-in period with a new teacher easier for your child to manage.
Children's safety - How children learn to be safe
As they grow, children need opportunities to learn how to live safely. This leaflet children's safety explains some ways in which your child learns to be safe and provides a few examples of how you can help.
Homework help - All about homework
Recent research in many countries has shown that carefully managed homework makes a big difference to how well children to do in school. This leaflet gives you some information about homework and suggestions for what you can do to help your child.
Key Stage 2 Maths sats papers - Mental Maths answer booklet
This sats paper is the answer paper for the Mental Maths paper for Key Stage 2 maths.
Key Stage 2 sats Maths - Mental Maths questions
This paper makes up part of the Mental Maths stage of the 2006 Key Stage 2 Maths sats exam
Key Stage 1 English SATs - Reading question booklet
This test is part of the Key Stage 1 English sats reading exam.
My child seems stressed
When children are suffering - or seeming to be suffering - from stress, it can be both a worrying and frustrating time for parents. This leaflet sets out some of what we know about stress and provides some advice on what you can do to help your child.
Worksheet - Peer Pressure
This worksheet will help your child to consider peer pressure and different ways of responding to it and consider how to get help.
Printable worksheets - What's the right thing to do
This printable worksheet will help your child to look at how sensitively we treat other people
Child safety - Making Choices
This child safety worksheet will help your child to organise thoughts and ideas on making healthy, safe choices.
Bullying in school - I think my child is being bullied
Bullying in school happens as much as in other walks of life. Children are particulary affected by it. If you're worried that your child is being bullied, this leaflet explains things you can do to recognise it, understand it, stop it and make sure it doesn't happen again.
Fun worksheets - Let's Play
This fun worksheet will challenge your child's imagination by asking them create their very own game.
Hobbies and activities - Learning to swim
Swimming is fun and healthy - and once mastered will give your child the chance to take part in lots of other water-based hobbies and activities like surfing, canoeing and sailing.
Table manners - Eating out
Going to restaurants for lunch or supper can be an exciting treat for the whole family - the children get to choose what they eat, and someone else does the washing up! It's also a good opportunity to brush up on table manners, to talk and to discover new foods.
Visiting a farm with children
There are few trips that delight children more than a visit to the farm - but shh, don't tell them they'll be enhancing important personal and thinking skills in subjects such as science, geography and citizenship.
Hobbies and activities - Building a tree house
This hobbies and activities leaflet from My Child is an introduction to building a tree house.
Exclusion - What happens if my child is excluded
Schools must have a code of behaviour that everyone accepts and follows. If this code is repeatedly broken by any child, he may be excluded from school. This leaflet looks at what schools do to try to prevent things reaching this stage and what will happen if your child is facing exclusion
How is ICT education taught
This article explains what ICT education is, how it is taught in primary schools and what you can do to help your child.
Learn to read - Sharing a picture book
If you want to help your child learn to read, the answer is simple. Read to her yourself. Reading at home gives children a head start when they get to school.
Work sheets - Out and about
This work sheet will help your child to face new challenges by making responsible choices.
Math worksheets - Kitchen Gadgets
This math worksheet will help your child to be able to suggest suitable equipment for measuring.
Free printable worksheets - Obstacle course
This free printable worksheet encourages children to create an obstacle course. This activity is for you and your child to do together. Please let him/her take the lead.
Hobbies and activities - Knees Bend
This hobbies and activities download is about enjoying exercise. This activity is for your child to attempt alone at first but (s)he will need your help as an audience.
National curriculum - Exercises
This national curriculum activity will encourage children to take part in various exercises.
Numeracy resources - Square numbers, prime numbers, factors and multiples worksheet
This key stage 2 numeracy resources worksheet will help your child practice key numeracy concepts.
Use known number facts and place value to add or subtract - maths worksheet
These maths worksheets will help children in Key Stage 2 calculate mentally using a variety of methods. It will also help them explain their methods, both orally and in writing.
ks2 worksheet - Reading
This ks2 worksheet will help children use their knowledge of the alphabet to find information in books.
Free printable worksheets - Friendship Dilemmas
This free printable worksheet will help your child to explore ways of responding to difficult situations and gain greater understanding of how complex relationships can be.
Worksheets for children - It's mine!
This worksheet for children will help your child to think about how their actions affect others and see things from other people's perspectives.
English worksheet - No comment
This english worksheet will provide an opportunity to listen attentively and to evaluate critically the speaking skills of someone who is recognised as a skillful speaker.
Literacy worksheets - Commentating
This literacy worksheet forms part of the English curriculum. It will develop understanding of speaking and listening skills.
Primary worksheets - Playground action
This primary worksheet will help your child to play an active role as a member of the school community and think about the needs of different groups in the school community.