Year 5 11+ activities
Year 5 is the core preparation year. Weekly practice across all four subjects, with a little timed work, keeps every question type fresh without overwhelming anyone.
Activities matched to Year 5
Place Value and Rounding
Read, compare and round numbers up to 100,000 — the place-value fluency that every 11+ maths paper assumes.
Fractions of Amounts
Find fractions of whole numbers, compare two fractions of different amounts, and solve the fraction word problems 11+ papers love.
Percentages in the Shops
Percentage discounts, percentage change and quick mental percentages — practised through realistic shopping problems.
Mental Maths Speed Round
Times tables, division facts, quarters and decimal addition — a five-minute warm-up to build the speed 11+ papers reward.
Spelling: The Common Traps
The mangled spellings that cost 11+ marks — accommodate, definitely, separate and necessary — with memory tricks for each.
Punctuation: Commas, Apostrophes and Colons
Where commas really go, when the apostrophe moves after the s, and how to use a colon to introduce a list.
Word Classes and Grammar
Spot the adverb, conjunction, preposition and possessive pronoun inside real sentences — a fast, high-frequency 11+ question type.
Cloze: Choosing the Right Word
Fill-the-gap sentences where only one word fits both the meaning and the grammar — the skill behind "choose the best word" questions.
Letter and Number Codes
Work out the rule behind a code, then apply it — letter shifts, reversed words and alphabet-number codes.
Word Analogies
Kitten is to cat as puppy is to...? Build the habit of naming the relationship before you choose the answer.
Odd One Out: Words
Find the word that does not belong — and then prove it by naming the rule the other three share.
Letter Sequences
Spot how many letters are skipped each time, then continue the sequence — including sequences where the gap grows.
Rotation
Turn a shape by a given number of degrees, clockwise or anticlockwise, and pick the matching picture.
Reflection
Mirror a shape in a vertical or horizontal line — the mirror image is flipped, never simply turned.