Oxford Connections: People & Places Student Book Year 5

A knowledge-rich, F–6 Humanities program with explicit teaching and literacy at its core

Oxford Connections: People & Places is a brand-new program that will provide all the teacher and student resources needed to explicitly teach the full humanities curriculum, while embedding and developing core literacy skills.

The engaging print Student Workbooks feature reading passages, source materials and activities that inspire curiosity and help students understand how people, places and connections shape our world. Whether exploring history, geography, civics, business or real-world issues, students gain more than content knowledge – they build confidence in reading, writing and comprehension, empowering success across the curriculum. 

The Student Workbooks are supported by Teacher Digital Subscriptions available for purchase separately.

The Oxford Connections series provides complete coverage of the:

• HSIE K-6 NSW 2024 Syllabus (implementation from 2027)
• HUMS VIC 2.0 Curriculum
• HASS AC 9.0 Curriculum
• HASS WA 2025 Curriculum

Year 5 Contents

• Unit 1 Connection to Country (5 topics)
• Unit 2 Aboriginal Languages and Cultural Identity (5 topics)
• Assessment
• Unit 3 Impacts of European Settlement (4 topics)
• Unit 4 Colonial invasion (4 topics)
• Assessment
• Unit 5 Climate and environmental settlement (4 topics)
• Unit 6 Mapping and organisation of places (5 topics)
• Assessment
• Unit 7 Understanding democracy and government (4 topics)
• Unit 8 Economics and business (4 topics)
• Assessment