Cobalt 2025/26

Welcome to Year 4 and Team Cobalt

Your teacher is Mrs Holman 

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

In English this week, we used our reading VIPERS skills to retrieve factual information about the Ancient Egyptians: the pyramids, mummification and the River Nile. We used books from our classrooms, along with our knowledge from our history lessons. We looked at the features of non-chronological reports and compared fiction and non-fiction texts. Next week, we are looking forward to writing our own non-chronological reports about the ancient civilisation, including presentational features, a range of sentence types (subordinate clauses and adverbial phrases) and a range of accurate punctuation.

 This week in Maths, we have explored what happens when we multiply and divide multiples of 10 by the number 10, as well as why this happens. We have practiced multiplying and dividing a range of 2 and 3 digit multiples using a place value chart to help show us how the digits in each multiple move, as they become either bigger or smaller, depending on whether you are dividing or multiplying. We have then practiced doing this more efficiently without a place value chart by remembering the rules:

To multiply a whole number by 10, place a zero after the final digit of that number.

To divide a multiple of 10 by 10, remove the 0 from the ones place.

Next week, we will be exploring what happens when we multiply and divide multiples of 100 by 100 as well as why this happens.   

 In history, we found out about the Ancient Egyptian process of mummification. We discovered that this was a process used to preserve the body in order for it to continue on to the afterlife and live forever. We ordered the steps for mummification and even had a go at mummifying using some oranges!

 In DT, we have begun working on our Ancient Egyptian nightlights! We have blown up our balloons and started covering them with many layers of tissue paper and glue in order to create the shape required for our lights. We are excited to decorate them once we have finished building up the layers!

 In PSHE, we learnt about resilience. We looked at some scenarios and used role-play to show how the characters would be feeling when things don’t go to plan. We set a goal for them and discussed how we could make ourselves feel better if a dream does not come true, and how we can remain positive. We talked about self-belief and resilience, what this means to us and how it can support us with our goals, even when they do not happen.

 In French, we have learnt some words for hot (‘chaud’) and cold (‘froid) and practised using them to describe pictures containing either hot or cold things. We then recognised these words in some sentences written in French and translated each sentence in English.     

Have a great weekend, everyone!

PE days for year 4 will be on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays

Please bring in library books on a Friday

Well done to our Weekly Award winners:

Arlo and Micaela

Iyanna and Eylul

Bobby and Henry

Isaac and Isla

Georgia for being so thoughtful and sharing her things.

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers:  

x5 Isaac Mia  Olivia

x6

x7 Bobby

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers:

 

Cooper

Henry Isaac Bobby Ruben Dominykas Freddy

• 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 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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