Cobalt 2025/26

Welcome to Year 4 and Team Cobalt

Your teacher is Mrs Holman 

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Pullen, Mrs Elson and Ms Andrew

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In English this week, we continued reading the story of ‘Hermelin’ by Mini Grey. We took part in freeze frames to show how Hermelin feels in the story and we wrote a diary entries about what he saw, focussing on using adjectives to describe his feelings. We then planned and wrote our own short stories using the same structure as… ‘The Dramatic Rescue of Baby McMumbo!’ Next week, we will be reading and enjoying poetry by Valerie Bloom. We will then write and perform our own poems using figurative language.

This week in Maths, we have been learning a new times table – the sixes! We have practiced counting backwards and forwards in 6s and linked this to the six times tables. We have also used our six times tables to help us solve a range of worded problems and used the distributive law to help us solve unknown times tables facts from the six times tables. As an example, we learnt that 6 x 6 is the same as saying 5 x 6 + 6, so if you know 5 x 6, then you can work out 6 x 6 by adding one more group of 6! We have also consolidated our new learning by doing some rockin’, focusing particularly on the 6x tables. Next week, we will be moving on to learning about the 9x table. 

This week, as part of our learning in Religious Education, and to celebrate the festive season, we visited Reverend Matt at St. Barnabas Church. We talked about why and where worshippers connect to prayer and worship, including how Christingles are used by Christians to celebrate Jesus as the Light of the World. When we got back to school, we made our own Christingles to take home to show our families. In addition to this, we looked at the similarities and differences between the Hindu and Christian faiths and compared some significant aspects of the two religions.

In Design Technology, we practised the running stitch and the over sew stitch on a material called binca. We discussed the strength of both stitches and which one would be better to use for our Christmas decoration. We also enjoyed designing our Christmas decoration using annotated sketches. We thought about the purpose of our product and the colours, shapes and embellishments we would like to use, while thinking about the intended user.

Bon weekend, everyone!

PE days for year 4 will be on Mondays and Thursdays

Please bring in library books on a Friday

Well done to our Weekly Award Winners:

Drew, Sienna, Isla and Dua

Arlo, Hunter, Ruben and Dominykas

Logan, Tate, Edon and Mia

Isaac, Henry, Drew and Charlie

Archie - for being an encouraging and supportive friend during PE.  Mattie - for being patient and supportive of others whilst we learn to sew!

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers 

x5 Micaela

x6 Isaac Bobby

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Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

 

Edon	Henry Georgia  Isaac Bobby Ruben

Web links that you may find helpful

• www.bbc.co.uk/history
• BBC Bitesize - KS2 Science
• BBC Bitesize - Dance Mat Typing Build speed of typing in a fun and challenging way
• CBBC - Newsround An engaging news based website.
• 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 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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