Grade 5 Life Skills: topics by term
Grade 5 Life Skills: what the CAPS curriculum covers in each of the four terms, with the official documents to download and ways the AlignWellz AI tutor can help.
Grade 5 Life Skills topics by term
CAPS says the Life Skills topics are suggested and teachers may adapt them. Creative Arts and Physical Education are taught every term; their detailed activities are in the official document.
Term 1
Personal and Social Well-being
- Positive self-concept formation
- Reading skills
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Coping with emotions
- Relationships with peers, older people and strangers
Physical Education
- Movement sequences that require consistency and control in smooth and continuous combinations
Creative Arts
- Performing Arts
- Visual Arts
Term 2
Personal and Social Well-being
- Discrimination, stereotype and bias
- Child abuse
- Dealing with violent situations
- Issues of age and gender in different cultural contexts in South Africa
Physical Education
- A variety of target games
Creative Arts
- Performing Arts
- Visual Arts
Term 3
Personal and Social Well-being
- Festivals and customs from a variety of religions in South Africa
- Safety measures at home and the environment
- Water as an important basic need
- Healthy eating for children
Physical Education
- Rhythmic movements and steps with attention to posture and style
Creative Arts
- Performing Arts
- Visual Arts
Term 4
Personal and Social Well-being
- Local environmental health problems
- HIV and AIDS education
- Substance abuse
Physical Education
- A variety of field and track athletics or swimming activities
Creative Arts
- Performing Arts
- Visual Arts
Source: CAPS Life Skills Grades 4-6, section 3.2 (annual teaching plan).
How the AlignWellz tutor helps with Life Skills
- Your child picks Life Skills, a term and a topic and the tutor knows what they are working on. They can also type, speak or upload a photo of their homework.
- The tutor guides step by step instead of just handing over answers, and explains things a different way if something doesn't click.
- Your child's own school worksheets, homework and textbooks always come first; CAPS is a guide, not a rule.
- Parents see time spent in Life Skills on the parent dashboard.
AI can make mistakes, so it works best alongside your child's teacher and textbook.
Official downloads
- Life Skills: CAPS document (English)
- Life Skills: CAPS document (Afrikaans)
- All CAPS documents for Intermediate Phase (Grades 4–6)
These files are hosted by the Department of Basic Education, so you always get their current version. Workbooks are large PDFs, best downloaded on Wi-Fi. The DBE doesn't publish a workbook for this subject.
Other Grade 5 subjects
- Home Language
- First Additional Language
- Mathematics
- Natural Sciences and Technology
- Social Sciences
- Second Additional Language
Back to all Grade 5 subjects.
Grade 5 Life Skills: common questions
Which Life Skills topics run through the whole of Grade 5?
Performing Arts and Visual Arts appear in all four terms, so they are worth practising little and often rather than only before tests.
Is the order of topics the same at every school?
Not necessarily. CAPS is the national framework, and the order of topics inside it is not prescriptive, so the term-by-term plan here is the Department of Basic Education's suggested sequence. Your child's school (or your homeschool plan) may teach topics in a different order, so check with their teacher. AlignWellz puts your child's own worksheets, homework and textbooks first.
Can an AI tutor help with Grade 5 Life Skills?
Yes. Your child can ask the tutor about Life Skills by typing or speaking, or attach a photo of a worksheet or homework (a clear JPG, PNG or WebP). The tutor is designed to guide step by step and check understanding rather than just hand over answers, and it puts your child's own school material first. They can also pick a term and topic from this page so the tutor knows what they are working on. AI can make mistakes, so it works best alongside your child's teacher and textbook.
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