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Year 5 PSHE: Summer 2 worksheet

“Looking after our environment” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 5 PSHE unit “PSHE: Summer 2”, for children aged 9 to 10, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 31 to 36 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Looking after our environment

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 5 · PSHE · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can use the three Rs to cut waste.

A Look back3 min

  1. 1.

    Join each situation to the feeling it most likely brings.

    Ali's dog ran awayMia got a prizeSam was left out
    ProudLonelyWorried
  2. 2.

    Ali has these coins. A drink in a plastic bottle costs all of them. Or he can fill his own bottle from the tap for free. Which choice makes less waste?

    20p20p10p
  3. 3.

    Stop, then what comes next? Circle the step that goes in the gap.

    StopChoose
    BreatheShoutHide

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ella's class wants to make less rubbish in the first place. They talk about three ideas that start with R.

Watch me
ReduceReuseRecycle

Reduce means use or buy less first.

Reuse means find a new job for an item.

Recycle means make used materials into new products.

Now you
  1. 1.

    Mia uses an old paint tin as a pot for her brushes. Circle the R she uses.

    Old painttinPot forbrushes
    ReduceReuseRecycle

C Your turn8 min

Read each story. Decide which R fits best.

  1. 1.

    Ali buys loose apples instead of apples in a plastic tray, so less packaging comes home. Circle the R.

    ReduceReuseRecycle
  2. 2.

    Ali's old jam jar becomes a pencil pot. Circle the R.

    Old jam jarPencil pot
    ReduceReuseRecycle
  3. 3.

    Old newspapers go in the paper bin, so they can be made into new paper. Circle the R.

    ReduceReuseRecycle
  4. 4.

    A class decides to share worksheets on a screen instead of printing them. Circle the R.

    ReduceReuseRecycle

Say it out loud: Which R did you try first each time, and why does that R come before the others?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “Recycling is the most powerful R, so we should buy lots of things and recycle them all.”
ReduceReuseRecycle
  1. 1.

    Which R is the most powerful way to cut waste? Circle it.

    ReduceRecycle

E Think deeper4 min

A school lunch table with a sandwich in cling film, a crisp packet, a plastic drink bottle and a paper bag
  1. 1.

    Look at the lunch table. Name two things that could be reduced before any recycling happens. Explain how you know.

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StudyDen · Year 5 · PSHE · Caring for Our WorldAnswers are on the grown-up page

For the grown-up

Looking after our environment · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Ali's dog ran away → Worried; Mia got a prize → Proud; Sam was left out → Lonely

2. Look for: Chooses filling his own bottle, because it makes no new plastic waste.

3. Breathe

B

1. Reuse

C

1. Reduce

2. Reuse

3. Recycle

4. Reduce

D

1. Reduce If your child circles Recycle, they think sending waste away is best. Recycling still uses energy and resources. Ask: what could we have bought less of in the first place?

E

1. Look for: Names two items, such as a wrapper or bottle, and explains that using or buying less stops waste before recycling.

Words to use

Say“Which R would stop this rubbish being made at all? Which R comes next?”
Instead of“Tell them recycling is always the best answer and move on.”

After the sheet

Take three items from the kitchen bin and sort them into reduce, reuse or recycle. Ask which one could have been bought less, then choose one thing to change this week.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

  1. Planning a Local Project(with a plan)
  2. Rights and responsibilities(with a plan)
  3. Goals That Stick(with a plan)
  4. Ready for Year 6(with a plan)
  5. Mapping my PSHE year(with a plan)

Every Year 5 PSHE worksheet

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