Practical Life · Grade 5

Skills

• Runs their own morning and evening routine unprompted.
• Notices something that needs doing and does it without being asked.
• Cooks a full meal for the family, from a recipe, and gets it on the table hot.
• Adapts a recipe: doubles it, halves it, substitutes a missing ingredient.
• Plans a meal, lists what is needed, and shops for it.
• Stores leftovers correctly and knows what has gone off.
• Cleans a room properly, top to bottom, to a standard someone else would accept.
• Knows where the water stopcock, the fuse box and the fire extinguisher are — and what each is for.
• Fixes something broken instead of replacing it, at least once, successfully.
• Waters plants, cares for a pet, or grows something edible from seed to plate.
• Makes a phone call to an organisation and asks for what they need.
• Navigates an unfamiliar journey with a change, with a plan for what to do if it goes wrong.
• Fills in a simple form correctly: name, address, date of birth, date.