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title: "Year 5 Highlights"
url: "https://www.thepalmeracademy.com/news/2023-07-14-year-5-highlights"
school: "The Palmer Academy"
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# Year 5 Highlights

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/thepalmeracademy/images/news/51(4).jpg)   14 July 2023

During this term we have delved back in time to the birth of the industrial revolution; discovering the hard times that particularly poor children faced, especially working in mills and factories under extremely difficult conditions. Everyone was surprised how children, so young, were allowed to work.

Science brought another interesting practical using various materials to make a pulley. As you can see by the photos some great models were created. Let’s keep going strong for the final week.

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