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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 this week, we started our new module, looking at non-chronological reports. We explored the features before researching information and planning our own about the Egyptians. Next week, we will be using the notes we have made to write our own reports about the ancient civilisation, including an introduction, the importance of the River Nile, Mummification and the Pyramids. We will also be using our historical knowledge to make sure our facts are accurate. We will then use presentational features of the text type, such as heading and sub-headings.

This week in Maths, we started by solving problems involving fractions an money. We used the bar model strategy to help us. We have also been learning about equivalent fractions and have used diagrams to help us understand what it means to have fractions which are equivalent. We then represented equivalent fractions on diagrams of our own. Finally, we progressed to generating pairs of equivalent fractions using multiplication and division. The golden rule is: whatever you do to the top, do the same to the bottom! In times tables, we have continued to practice our 8's. Remember to keeeep rocking at home, using TTRS!

In PSHE this week, we discussed statements about alcohol and whether we thought they were true or false. We then learnt about the liver, what its job is, and how and why we should look after it and keep it healthy. We then learnt a song and wrote an extra verse for ‘Make a good decision,’ thinking about how we can resist peer pressure and make positive choices.

As historians, we have been learning all about Tutankhamun and the amazing discovery of his tomb by Howard Carter. We spent time looking at sources such as newspaper articles, pictures of what was found in the tomb and even Howard Carter's diary. We then used these to write some fantastic newspaper reports all about this significant event. We are very proud of our writing!

In Science, we have continued to monitor our 'eggsperiment' and have completed two observations in which we have recorded the effects of the different liquids on our eggs. We will be completing some more observations next week.

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.