Grade 5

The Grade 5 program strengthens students’ understanding of cleanliness, discipline, responsibility, safety, and environmental awareness through deeper application of the Japanese 5S principles. At this level, students expand beyond personal cleanliness to explore the wider impact of habits on their home, school, and community. They learn to observe their surroundings more critically using the San-Gen (Gemba) principles, identify problems, suggest solutions, and practice systematic methods to maintain order and hygiene. The curriculum also introduces more advanced ideas such as waste reduction, recycling, resource conservation, time management, personal hygiene standards, healthy eating habits, and the importance of respecting public resources and systems. Students develop leadership qualities, teamwork skills, and the ability to make thoughtful decisions that reflect responsibility and maturity.

What Grade 5 Students Will Learn

1. Cleanliness, Hygiene & Personal Standards

Grade 5 students learn to build strong habits of self-care—maintaining proper hygiene, organizing their study and home spaces, caring for their belongings, and developing structured daily routines. They understand how cleanliness affects health, confidence, discipline, and personal growth.

2. Waste Management & Environmental Responsibility

Students learn the full cycle of waste generation, segregation, disposal, recycling, and reduction. They study types of waste, community waste challenges, harmful impacts of littering, food wastage, electricity wastage, and water wastage. They begin applying CAPDo (Check–Act–Plan–Do) to reduce waste in their daily lives.

3. San-Gen Principles & Problem-Solving Skills

Using Gemba (real place), Gembutsu (real things), and Genjitsu (real facts), students learn to observe problems around them like dirty surfaces, misplacements, water leaks, unsafe conditions and take steps to correct them. They learn to use their five senses effectively and begin developing a “sixth sense” for identifying risks or irregularities.

4. Standards & System Thinking

Students are introduced to the concept of standards like traffic rules, water purity standards, food safety standards, classroom organization standards, waste bin standards, shoe arrangement standards, and more. They learn why standards are necessary and how following them creates safer, cleaner, and more disciplined environments.

5. Safety Education

The program covers in-depth safety training: traffic safety, bicycle safety, fire safety, electricity safety, water safety, and safe behavior at home and outdoors. Students become more aware of hazards and learn preventive actions to protect themselves and others.

6. Leadership, Values & Social Behavior

Students learn the qualities of serving leadership, humility, responsibility, communication, respect, honesty, and teamwork. They practice working in groups, helping weaker peers, and contributing positively to shared spaces. They learn to treat all kinds of work with dignity.

7. Healthy Living & Eating Habits

Students learn the importance of good nutrition, balanced meals, healthy food choices, and disciplined eating habits. They understand how health affects learning, behavior, and long-term well-being.

How This Program Supports the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

The Grade 5 program directly contributes to the goals of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by:

1. Encouraging Habit-Based Cleanliness

Students practice not littering, not spitting, keeping toilets and classrooms clean, and maintaining hygienic surroundings. These are core behaviors expected by Swachh Bharat.

2. Strengthening Waste Segregation & Recycling

By learning waste types, segregation rules, and reduction strategies, students actively support the national mission of scientific waste management.

3. Promoting Environmental Awareness

The program teaches students how waste, pollution, stagnant water, and unclean public areas affect health and society, motivating them to care for community spaces.

4. Instilling Responsible Citizenship

Through values, teamwork, leadership, and daily discipline, students grow into responsible young citizens who naturally support cleanliness and community improvement.

5. Connecting Home, School & Society

Parent involvement activities and reflection exercises ensure that habits practiced in school extend to homes and neighborhoods creating the community engagement that Swachh Bharat Abhiyan emphasizes.

6. Creating Long-Term Behavioral Change

By teaching the “why” behind every habit, the program ensures that students internalize cleanliness, hygiene, and discipline as lifelong values—helping build a cleaner India for future generations.