The English program includes four components:

• Reading –  Oral and silent reading strategies, reading fluency
• Reading Comprehension – Focused reading comprehension strategies including multiple choice questions and open answer questions
  
• Writing – Developing understandings of writing constructs, text types and their purposes
  
• Language Conventions – Instruction in a range of spelling strategies, syntax and grammatical constructs to give students a solid foundation on which to build their skills

All GEA maths programs include three main components:

• Concepts
• Strategies
• Problem Solving

In this level students are introduced to new concepts. The program focuses on building sound number relationship, understanding numbers magnitudes and quantities. Fractions and place value are also at the core of the program. Students are empowered by various strategies.

Students learn the UPSL ^TM (Understand, Plan, Solve and Learn) strategy for problem solving. They start to analyse, plan and solve word problems.

Enrol Now for Year 5

The Year 5 program is an excellent program for NAPLAN. NAPLAN assesses the three main literacy areas Reading Comprehension, Language Conventions and Writing. All these subjects are covered in the English course. NAPLAN also assesses Numeracy (Concepts, strategies and Problem Solving) that are covered in our Maths course.

If your child is advanced, this is the time to prepare them for the selective school entrance test and/or academic scholarship for private schools. Click here for the program