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Year 5 at @grangevalley1 ✍️📚🌎

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Today was our last PSHE lesson with LFC. Our topic has been ‘ How can we help our environment?’ And the children have discussed different ways we can do this. Today everyone decorated bird and bug houses which will be hung around our outdoor areas to protect our local wildlife.

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During today’s science lesson we discussed ‘how did the universe begin?’ We enjoyed a demonstration using a balloon and glitter to re-enact the hot explosion. Lastly, we looked at scientific evidence and compared our RE knowledge regarding God creating the world in 7 days.

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Today in maths we multiplied 2-digit and 3-digit numbers with a single digit. Together we worked out which would be the best value for money at first using place value counters for 1, 10, 100 before moving onto number bonds and the column method.
Great money saving year 5!

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On Thursday year 5 looked at the benefits of living on Mars and engaged in a debate before writing a persuasive balanced argument between living on Mars and Earth.

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In Science on Tuesday we looked at what ‘spherical’ means before discovering that Earth bulges when spinning around the equator because of its centrifugal force.

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Father Dan came to visit us on Monday to talk about how difficult it can be to always do the right thing. The children loved debated what temptation is before looking at the Lord’s Prayer in detail

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In Geography we looked at four and six grid references before looking at similarities and differences between St. Helens and other local areas.

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In music we’ve been practicing ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’ on the glockenspiel before adding a backing beat.

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In art, the children took inspiration from Teis Alber’s piece ‘moonwalk’; considered how drawing can be developed through printmaking before making our own collagraph plate.

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During today’s PE lesson with Tom, we looked at various communication methods and understanding how to effectively communicate.

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So proud of my brilliant year 5 class and the stuffed toys that they have made in DT this half term! Superstars! 🌟🤩 @kapowprimary

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In this weeks art club, we’re using materials from our school forest to create a piece of art inspired by nature! #EliInAction #ArtClub #POWERsInAction 🖌️🎨🌳

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In todays maths lesson, we used cubes to help us create shapes and calculate the volume of solids! #StanInAction #PowersInAction

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Wow! We had the best afternoon at @OutwoodHaydock watching their performance of Matilda! It was incredible, thank you for having us! 🎭🤩

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This morning, Dylan’s Reptiles came into school as part of our English unit. He spoke about how David Attenborough inspired his love of animals, we even got to hold a snake and bearded dragon! 🐍 #Omar #OmarInAction #Outstanding

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We’ve had a brilliant morning on our whole school walk, promoting road safety and national health week! #RoadSafety #NationalHealthWeek #PeriInAction

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Our local PCSO’s have joined us this morning to talk all about safety in open water. Thank you Nat & Emma! #community #safety

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In todays history lesson, we learnt about the push and pull factors of migration! #WrenInAction

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What a lovely way to end our first week back at school with a visit to Haydock Library to learn all about empathy day and refugee week! 📚 #Outstanding #Community

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We had so much fun in our first Key Stage 2 art club tonight! We looked at work from Laurel Burch and recreated some of her art! 🖌️🎨 #Outstanding #EliInAction