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Unit 3 Mini Topic - The Stone Age

Over the past two weeks children in Unit 3 have taken part in their mini topic about The Stone Age. As part of this topic we have learnt about and built our own Stonehenge, explored artefacts, built shelters, found out about how to dye cloth using fruit and discovered facts about a Stone Age…

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Blogging Tips

“With great power comes great responsibility,” says Spidey… and the same thing goes for our Class Blogs. Enjoy yourself, share your learning, but be sure to follow these guidelines when posting:

  • Make sure that you use full sentences, quality vocabulary, appropriate punctuation and that you…

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Unit 3 Safer Internet Day 2017

On Tuesday 6th February Unit 3 took part in safer internet day 2017. This year's theme focused on give a smile. Classes within the unit took part in a variety of activities that focused on the following themes:

  • The permanence of image
  • How to make the internet a safer place
  • Images - real…

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Mummifying a Fish

Over the past 2 weeks Unit 3 children have been learning about the mummification process. They have done this by mummifying a Fish. Each class has mummified their own Fish and discussed each stage of the process. Despite the horrendous smell, children have really enjoyed discovering all about the…

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Healey Dell

On Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th October 2016, the children from Unit 3 went to Healey Dell to undertake geography fieldwork.

 

The children took part in a variety of activities including: a river study, leaf hunting, pond dipping and Andy Goldsworthy Artwork.

 

Here is a gallery of our…

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Roald Dahl Day - Pictures

Roald Dahl Day

On Tuesday 13th September 2016 the children of Shawclough School took part in Roald Dahl Day.  We all had lots of fun dressing up as our favourite character from one of Roald Dahl's amazing books.  Throughout the day children took part in a variety of activities that celebrated…

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Roald Dahl Day

Today we have been celebrating Roald Dahl's 100th birthday. In school we have taken part in a variety of activities related to his books.  One of his most famous books was called "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

 

What is your favourite chocolate bar? Why?

 

What ingredients would…

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Unit 3 Spelling Bee 2016

In June 2016, the annual Unit 3 Spelling Bee was launched. Nearly the whole of Unit 3 was involved in the competition and over a period of four weeks, the students were given over 300 words to learn, culminating in the students competing to spell as many of these words in a knock out style…

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Butterflies

Over the last few weeks Miss Balogh's science class have been watching our caterpillars grow.  They turned into chrysalis' and hatched into beautiful butterflies.  Today we realeased them in to the wild, free to fly and find a new home.  Please look at our photographs…

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Identity Box

This weeks learning log task is all about identity.  It is part of our collaborative project with Falinge Park High School, entitled Earth Works Project. For more information please click on the links below.

 Identity_Box_Poster.pptx

Identity_Box_PowerPoint.pptx

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More Roman Mosaics

More Roman Mosaics using purple mash.

 

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Roman Mosaics

In Unit 3 we have been finding out about Roman Mosaics.  We have used purple mash mosaic software to create our very own mosaics.  Here are a selection of them.  Please look through and feel free to leave a comment.

 

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