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Primary Five

Achieve your child’s peak performance and give them a headstart in their PSLE preparation to aim for AL1s with our expert guidance and support. Enroll now!

Enroll your child in our Primary 5 programme to set them up for success! Our proven track record of preparing students for their end-of-year exams with 95% scoring 80 and above, and our unique approach of stimulating executive functions to enhance overall learning, will ensure your child excels not just in subjects they are taking with us but in all subjects in school. Give your child the advantage they deserve.

At ILLAC, we believe in the whole-person development of your child, not just academic excellence. Our approach to education is centered around enhancing your child’s learning abilities, instilling a love for learning and providing a supportive and motivating environment. This results in a well-rounded individual who is not just excelling in exams but also in life.


Here’s a list of skills required of students in Primary 5.

Primary Five EnglishPrimary Five MathematicsPrimary Five Science
– Past and Present Perfect Continuous Tenses
– Future tenses
– Gerunds
– Direct and indirected speech (Reported speech)
– Perceptive Verbs
– Past Participles
– Spotting errors in “Editing”
-Converting forms of words e.g. from adjectives to nouns using various suffixes in “Synthesis and Transformation”
– Cloze passages
– Conditional/Hypothetical clauses (if, until, unless)
– Ordering events in a story
– Comparing and contrasting two or more ideas
– Analysing stories
– Comprehension and answering techniques like inferencing
– Using contextual clues for Visual Text Comprehension and Vocabulary Cloze
– Giving explanations for events in stories
– Drawing conclusions from comprehension texts
– matching causes with effects
– Using conjunctions in Synthesis and Transformation
– Identifying the purpose and audience of text read or viewed
– Using context to identify the meaning of a word
– Writing letters based on a given situation using the appropriate tone and expressions
– Writing stories using rich text and development of characters (Composition)
– Inserting/Using idioms and quotes in compositions
– Punctuations for dialogues and other narratives


– Numbers to 10 000 000
– Multiplication patterns within 100 000
– Checking for reasonableness of answers in problem sums
– Using brackets in numerical expressions
– Using calculators
– Percentages
– Ratio
– Area of triangle
– Volume of cube and cuboid
– Mass in kilograms and grams
– Money in various denominations and change up to $100 000
– Volume in litres and mililitres
– Lengths in kilometres, metres and centimeters
– Converting time between 12-hour and 24-hour time format
– Adding and subtraction of time with regrouping
– Drawing timeline to solve word problems involving time
– Multiplication of 3-digit by 2 digit numbers
– Divisions and multiplications of fractions
– Conversion of fractions to decimals and vice-versa
– Sums relating to fractions of a set
– Decimals up to thousandths
– Rounding off decimals
– Geometrical properties involving isosceles triangle, equilateral triangle, right-angled triangle, parallelogram, rhombus and trapezium
– Finding symmetry
– Data analysis using mean, median and mode
– Solving word problems involving mass, money, volume, length, multiplication and division, fractions, decimals, time, percentage, and area and perimeter.
These are the common skills needed:
– Formulating hypothesis
– Generating possibilities
– Predicting
– Observing
– Using apparatus and equipment
– Comparing
– Classifying
– Inferring
– Analysing
– Evaluating
– Creative Problem Solving
– Decision-Making
– Investigation

The above skills are needed for all these topics:
– Cycles in plants and animals
(Reproduction)
– Cycles in matter and water
(Water)
– Plant system
(Respiratory and circulatory systems)
– Human system
(Respiratory and circulatory systems)
– Cell system
– Electrical system
– Interaction of forces
(Frictional force, gravitational force,
force in springs)
– Interaction within the environment
– Energy forms and uses
(Photosynthesis)
– Energy conversion










Kindly refer below for the schedule of the classes from which you can choose from or contact us for possibilities of opening a class at your preferred schedule! (subject to availability):

Vision Exchange

P5 EnglishP5 MathematicsP5 Science
Thurs 5pmTues 3 pm (full)Sat 4.30 pm (full)
Sat 8.45 am (full)Thurs 3 pmSun 3.30pm
Sun 8.45 am (full)Sat 11 am (1 seat left)
Sat 1.45 pm (1 seat left)Sun 11 am (full)
Sun 1.15 pm

West Coast Plaza

P5 EnglishP5 MathematicsP5 Science
Tues 5.30 pmTues 3 pmFri 3pm
Sat 10 amWed 6 pm
Sat 12 pm

How to register?

You can call, Whatsappemail or visit us at our centers at Vision Exchange #06-15 or West Coast Plaza #01-16/17/18.