Cobalt

Cobalt 2026/27

Welcome to Year 4 and Team Cobalt

Your teacher is Mrs Holman

Your teaching assistants are Miss Akther, Miss Vaughan and Miss Udin

What a busy half term it has been for Team Cobalt and Team Citron!

As artists, we have been learning all about the painter Henri Rousseau. We enjoyed learning lots of interesting facts about him, before moving on to exploring sketching using different pencils, oil pastels, and paints. We then went on to create our own drawings and paintings inspired by the style of Henri Rousseau. We are so proud of the finished results – they look amazing!

In RE, we have been learning about the religion of Hinduism. We have explored the origins of Hinduism and enjoyed using maps to find out where it is now practised across the world. As well as this, we have investigated Hindu worship and what this involves, and explored a range of key Hindu symbols, learning what they mean and why they are important to Hindus. We have also learnt about three of the main Hindu festivals: Holi, Diwali and Navaratri. We all agreed on how much fun the festival of Holi looked!

As scientists, we have been learning about ‘Living Things and their Habitats’. We have enjoyed learning about the different animal groups, and used classification keys to group animals based on their characteristics. We loved visiting the school garden and grounds during our ‘Invertebrate Hunt’, in order to collect insect specimens to observe and create labelled drawings of! We found all sorts of creepy crawlies including spiders, wood lice and snails!

Next half term, we have lots of exciting learning to look forward to. We are excited about continuing our learning relating to ‘Living Things and their Habitats’ in Science. We will also be designing and sewing our own Christmas decorations as part of our Design and Technology topic and as historians we will continue to explore the history of our local area; learning about Robert Snooks – a notorious Hertfordshire highwayman!

Well done for a great start to the term Year 4! Have a lovely break and we will see you soon!

PE days for Team Cobalt will be Mondays and Thursdays

Please bring in library books on a Tuesday and your Reading Records on Fridays as we look to celebrate reading at home.

Weekly Highlights

Week commencing 19.10.26

This week in PSHE, we have been discussing the concept of democracy. We learnt what it is and the ways in which it is present in our own lives. To help our understanding, we held a 'Biscuit Party Election', whereby each group was given a different biscuit to speak on behalf of. We then held a classroom election, setting up our own ballot box and taking a vote on which biscuit we would like to elect. The results are in, with Chocolate Digestives securing a firm majority! In addition to this, we have also finished our artwork based on the artist Henri Rousseau. Take a look at our beautiful creations!

Week commencing 12.10.26

In music this week we have continued to enjoy learning how to play our ukuleles, as well as using our voices to sing some fun songs. We all sounded beautiful! As Geographers, we have explored our local area; studying photos of places in Hemel Hempstead both old and new and considering the human and physical geographical differences between them. We were able to spot lots of human geographical differences including more roads, more houses, bigger buildings and different shops.

Week commencing 05.10.26

In Art this week, we have been exploring different mediums. We used the medium of oil pastels to do some mark making in our sketchbooks and extended a picture by the artist we are studying this half- term: Henri Rousseau. We focused on using different shades and shapes in order to create depth and texture in our work. Check out our beautiful examples below...

Week commencing 21.09.26

In RE we explored the Hindu place of worship, which is called the Mandir. We looked at lots of different examples and thought about their similarities and differences and what we liked about each Mandir......