Ms Daniel (she / her)

I am the Year 4 class teacher in Birch Class, as well as the Arts Subject Leader at Robsack Wood Primary Academy. All views and opinions are my own.

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In their Science learning today, Birch Class devised and carried out a fair test exploring which liquids had the highest viscosity.

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Year 4 went to Arundel Wetlands as part of Generation Wild, exploring wetland wildlife and sustainability, built nests, met a giant bird puppet which set exciting challenges and they saw some amazing wetland birds like pelicans, redshanks and tufted ducks.

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Yesterday, in their Outdoor Adventure Activity learning, Birch Class worked collaboratively in teams of five, exploring ways of travelling as a team whilst being allowed only 5 points of contact across the team- 2 hands, 4 feet and 2 bottoms.

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Birch Class devised a fair test to explore the effect of different fruits on jelly setting time.

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Birch Class devised a fair test to explore how different treatments affect the falling time for paper

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Yesterday in Science Week Birch Class investigated flight, devising a fair test comparing the time taken for types of paper to fall to the floor.

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As part of Science Week, Birch Class made switches using card, paper fasteners and paper clips. They then tested them in a working circuit using a bulb to prove whether their switches would connect and disconnect the circuit. Well done Birch.

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As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Birch Class dressed up as a character from their favourite book. Amongst other exciting activities, they created their own designs for a new National Book Token as part of a national competition.

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Birch Class spent this afternoon building circuits to identify what they need to make a complete circuit. They then tried swapping out components, batteries etc to discover different permutations for a working circuit.

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Birch Class wrote some wonderful poetry this morning about steam trains using figurative language. this as in response to our A Town Explores a Book workshop about E Nesbit’s book The Railway Children which they attended this morning.

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Year 4 attended a drama workshop from “8Ways to Connect”. The focus was on ways of resolving conflict, based around E Nesbit’s novel, ‘The Railway Children’.

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Birch Class are completing a classroom number scavenger hunt at the moment. They’re struggling to find something which is a prism... maybe they can create one...

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Yesterday, Year 4 completed some creative learning around the artist, Paul Klee’s Continuous Line drawing technique.

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Finished drawings from year 4 ...

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Birch Class practised drawing images using the ‘continuous line’ today in the style of Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso’s cartoons.

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An excellent gymnastics lesson this afternoon creating sequences of jumps, balances travelling and rolls. Great challenge and discipline, Birch😊

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Birch Class wrote Christmas / seasonal haikus, then made greetings cards with the haikus published inside. Then they made their own envelopes- great DT and art learning-well done Birch.

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Elm Class are talking about Climate Change, what is causing it, what evidence we can see and what we can do in mitigation.

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Year 3 were courageous, determined and resilient in their Sports Day competitions yesterday - great team spirit and sportsmanship.

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Elm Class had a lively discussion about climate change this morning and created some lovely information posters suggesting ways we can all live more sustainably.