Cobalt 2025/26

Welcome to Year 4 and Team Cobalt

Your teacher is Mrs Holman 

Your teaching assistants are Miss Akther, Mrs Elson, Ms Andrew and Miss Bobbi

Another busy week in Year 4!

In English this week, we continued with our report writing module, and we concluded a newspaper report about some strange events in year four, where some chocolate biscuits were stolen from team Cobalt and team Citron. We have enjoyed writing them and including the features of reports, along with different sentence types: subordinate clauses and adverbial phrases. We also used inverted commas to quote some eyewitnesses! Next week, we will be looking at the features of travel leaflets. We will be inspired with the texts, ‘Africa, Amazing Africa’ and ‘India, incredible India.’ We will then collect information to write our own leaflets about our home town, Hemel Hempstead.

This week in Maths, we have been learning how to order a range of mixed numbers. We began by using number lines to compare a range of fractions and mixed numbers. We then progressed to comparing fractions and mixed numbers with the same numerator (number on top of the fraction). We learnt that the bigger the denominator (bottom number of the fraction) the smaller the fraction will be, as this means that the whole thing has been divided into more equal parts. As well as this, we have focused on learning how to add and subtract fractions efficiently. Next week, we will continue our learning on fractions, focussing on how to convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions.  

For our science, we explored the journey sound vibrations make through the ear. We explored the pitch of musical instruments before moving on to making our own panpipes to experience this for ourselves. We found out that quicker vibrations produce a higher pitch and slower vibrations create a lower pitch.

During RE this week, we all took part in a P4C lesson, (Philosophy for Children). We watched a video about right and wrong, and generated questions for discussion relating to right and wrong. We then voted for our favourite question and discussed our thoughts. We listened carefully to each other and responded respectfully, saying whether we agreed or disagreed with each other’s points and why.

As historians, we learnt about one of the most famous historical figures from the Ancient Greek Empire, Alexander the Great. Firstly, we looked at different artefacts to see how he has been depicted throughout history. Then, we explored the story of Alexander the Great and learnt how he vastly expanded the Greek empire, how he conquered Ancient Greece and exactly what made him so great! We designed our own statues with all the achievements we found out about in order to commemorate him.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

PE days for year 4 will be on Mondays and Tuesdays

Please bring in library books on a Friday

Well done to our Weekly Award winners:

Henry and Monty

Margot and Iyana

Isaac and Dua

Hunter and Olivia

Bobby - for being very kind and supporting a friend's achievement.

Celebrating Home Learning - Well done to our challenge rockers for rocking 7 times each week this half term:   

x5 Logan

x6 Bobby

x7 Isaac

Celebrating Home Learning - Well done to our challenge readers for reading 7 times each week this half term: 

 

Edon	Isaac Monty Mattie Georgia  Freddy Bobby Ruben  Cooper Dom Logan

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk/year/zmyxxycBBC
• Books To Make You Feel Better..pdf

Documents you may find useful

• key-word-spelling-lists.docx
• Spelling Lists - All Year Groups.pdf
• Grammatical Terminology Prompt.pdf

  WB 27.04.26 We made pan pipes to explore different pitches in Science!

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• WB 13.04.26 Exploring sound through vibrations!

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  WB 23.03.26 Our Egyptian bread rolls

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  WB 23.03.26 A visit to St Barnabas

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  WB 16.03.26 A nature walk to inspire our haiku writing...

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  WB 09.03.26 Using chromatography for British Science Week!

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  WB 02.02.26 Investigating electrical insulators and conductors!

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  WB 26.01.26 Our DT, PSHE and History this week!

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  WB 19.01.26 Sorting different types of pyramids...

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  WB 12.01.26 Our Science and DT this week...

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  WB 05.01.26 We started our new topic all about the Ancient Egyptians!

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  WB 15.12.25 Merry Christmas! Our beautiful completed decorations...

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  WB 08.12.25 Cornets and Carols!

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• WB 01.12.25 Practice our stitching and our Christingles!

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  WB 17.11.25 Investigating decorations for our DT...

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• WB 10.11.25 Armistice Day and Children in Need

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  WB Our Maths work this week and our beautiful artwork!

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• WB 20.10.25 Perimeter is the distance around the outside of a flat shape!

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