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Hobletts Manor Junior School

Learning and Achieving Together

Cobalt

Cobalt 2024-25

Welcome to Year 4 and Team Cobalt

Your teachers are Mrs Holman & Mrs Bonner

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Pullen & Mrs Hajzeri

In English, we are learning about Greek Mythology. We started by looking at different Gods and Goddesses, and thinking about their qualities and why we like their characteristics. We then read and listened to the story of 'Daedalus and Icarus' and created a comic strip, thinking about the thoughts and feelings of the characters. To end the week, we made notes about the story and wrote a summary with the key points: Who? What? Where? When? Why? Next week, we will be writing a diary entry, in role as Daedalus. We will also learn about a new Greek myth, 'Theseus and the Minotaur.' We will be writing the dialogue between the two main characters in the story, using accurate speech punctuation.

This week in Maths, we have started off the new term by learning about Roman Numerals. We began by comparing the numerals with our own number system and found out that, unlike our system, the Romans did not use place value, but instead combined the 7 numerals in different ways to create their numbers. We then made number lines of our own with the numerals which went up to twenty. After this, we progressed our knowledge by going all the way up to 100 in Roman Numerals! At the end of the week, we revised our knowledge of the bus stop method for division. Next week, we will be looking at negative numbers and will continue to focus on the threes for our times tables.

In History, we began our brand new topic all about the Ancient Greeks. We explored where they fall on a timeline and compared them with other periods in time, noticing that they were a relatively short lived ancient civilization. In addition, we investigated and ordered some key events from the Ancient Greek period, before looking at where Greece is on a world map and exploring some of the key features of the country.

In computing this week, we started our new topic, 'Effective Searches.' We learnt how to find new information using a search engine. We found a friendly version of google called 'Kiddle,' which we used to type in questions to find answers for our quiz.

In PSHE this week, we looked at some images and discussed the different emotions. We then drew out the connection of jealous behaviour. We discussed what jealousy is and how it can feel. We learnt that jealousy is a common emotion but an unhelpful one. We can all experience it about people and things.

Our PE days for Team Cobalt this half term will be Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Our library day is Friday - please bring books into school every week.