Primary 5

Primary 5

Critical Year Ahead of the PSLE

Critical Year Ahead of the PSLE

Focus on clarifying doubts, consolidating what's been learnt and sharpening the focus on personal goals and exam skills.

This year is about helping your child to pace himself or herself whilst empowering him or her to master key examination components.

 

 

Focus on clarifying doubts, consolidating what's been learnt and sharpening the focus on personal goals and exam skills.

This year is about helping your child to pace himself or herself whilst empowering him or her to master key examination components.

 

 

Programme Outlines

 



 

English

Lesson Duration: 2 hrs
Class size: 10 - 12 students


 

 

Your child will begin systematic preparation for the PSLE with equal emphasis on developing communication skills with exam savvy.

 

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Content and Language Mastery


Learn advanced grammar rules and thematic vocabulary that will help them to build a strong foundation in the language. These include:

  • sensorial verbs
  • transformation of words in sentences
  • direct to reported speech and vice versa

 

Skills and Techniques


Students refine their skills in the following key areas:

Speaking

  • Students will reinforce their communication and interview skills through DSA preparation classes and public speaking platforms such as debates. They will learn how to engage with the audience and present their arguments in a convincing and coherent manner

Reading and writing

  • Students will learn how to write an engaging story with a clear structure and thoughtful use of writing techniques
  • Learn to plan stories in a sequential and logical manner as well as identify logic gaps
  • Practise creating story ideas that relate directly to the theme and visuals
  • Students will also refine their use of writing techniques such as flashback, foreshadowing, twist and hook
  • Students will also be trained in situational writing and learn how to write different text types such as emails, letters and reports
  • Employ the WISE method (Writing= Ideas +Structure + Expression)

Read more about TLL’s WISE method and systematic approach to honing writing skills here.

Metacognitive Skills

Students will hone their metacognitive abilities and develop skills that will help them evaluate their own work.

These include:

  • error analysis
  • answer precision
  • the ability to identify logic gaps
  • the ability to answer inferential questions
  • analysis of assessment rubrics

 

Contextualised Learning


Students will be introduced to a wide variety of themes that will help them to to link classroom learning to events, people, places and cultures in the real world.

Key themes include:

  • politics and economics
  • sport and entertainment
  • arts and culture

Download our programme brochure for the full curriculum details.


 

Mathematics

Lesson Duration: 2 hrs
Class size: 10 - 12 students


 

 

The Primary 5 Math curriculum equips students with a strong foundation of key topics tested at PSLE.

 

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Content Mastery


  • Students will master new topics such as Percentage, Ratio, Area of Triangles, Rates, Average and Volume
  • Students will see the connection of new topics such as Percentage and Ratio with Fractions
  • Students will solve word problems involving units and parts, part-whole relationship with working backwards, common difference resulting from overlapping regions
  • Students will be exposed to new question trends involving logical reasoning and real-world applied learning

Skills and Techniques


  • Students will apply heuristics such as Tabulation, Multiple Equations and Complex Unitary Method
  • Students will construct geometrical shapes on square grids
  • Students will get accustomed to using a calculator in solving questions for Paper 2

Applied Learning


  • Students will explore and hone their logical reasoning skills through puzzles
  • Students will reinforce new concepts learnt through card games and online games, such as Ratio Tug-of-War, which requires students to come up with correct values to match a given ratio
  • Students will appreciate the real-life application of Math through videos and infographics, such as ‘Containerific’, which provides real-life examples of volume and capacity in the shipping industry

Download our programme brochure for the full curriculum details.


 

Science

Lesson Duration: 2 hrs
Class size: 10 - 12 students

 

 


 

 

Students integrate their understanding of various topics and build a more sophisticated approach to answering PSLE format questions with confidence and accuracy.

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Content Mastery


  • Students will be introduced to new topics such as Cells, Electrical System, Water and Changes of State and Reproduction in Plants
  • Students will have regular revision of topics from the Primary 3 and 4 topics

Skills and Techniques


  • Students will have greater exposure to questions that involve experimental skills and the application of science concepts to real-world scenarios
  • Students will recognise the function of a control set-up and how to construct an appropriate control set-up for a given experiment
  • Students will be closely guided on how to use appropriate science keywords, in context of specific questions, in their explanations for open-ended questions

Applied Learning


  • Students will be exposed to practical skills such as the use of microscopes in the study of Cells
  • Students will recognise science in their daily lives through fun passages such as the science behind lightning

Download our programme brochure for the full curriculum details.

Parent & Student Stories

 


“Teachers are cheerful and kind-hearted, and shower her with lots of encouragement."

 

 

"Valerie really enjoys her lessons at The Learning Lab! She always shares with me that her teachers are cheerful and kind-hearted, and shower her with lots of encouragement. In addition to the nurturing environment, I am also extremely satisfied with the curriculum here.

In English classes, Valerie is taught specific writing techniques and introduced to model compositions, which enable her to digest and understand concepts more readily.

Her composition has since improved from 58% to 95%, in a short span of half a year! Presentations conducted termly also offer Valerie a valuable edge in honing her public speaking skills.

As a parent, I am heartened to know that my child is in good hands and am confident that she will be able to excel academically and beyond."

- MS AUDREY TEA

Parent of P3 student, Enrolled in English

 


“Finding the world beyond the classroom.”

 

 

"Recalling the lessons I’ve had in Paris 1 or New York 5, the most valuable one I gained was the sense that the world is my oyster.

I took English from P4 to S4, and the fondest moments have been those where my teachers and I discussed the many happenings outside of the classroom.

Be it my teacher’s fondness for architectural marvels across the world as a window shedding light on the ebbs and flows of the global economy, or her entertaining stories of her childhood encouraging reflection on our own educations, I have learnt much more than just English itself.

I am privileged to feel like I can now feel the pulse of this vast world, becoming an active participant in it, and in large part I have because TLL encouraged me to find this world beyond the classroom."

- GLORIA CHUA

TLL student from 2004 -2010

 

 

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