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 wrote a longer persuasive letter, in more detail, about litter in the local community. We included a range of conjunctions, punctuation and adverbial phrases, and also some facts and personal anecdotes. We revisited the story of, ‘Greta and the Giants,’ inspired by Greta Thunberg and her stand to save the world! Next week, we are starting a new module and learning about the poet, Michael Rosen. We will have lots of fun reading his poems and discussing the language used and the impact on us, the reader!

This week in Maths, we have been learning more about time and have focussed on how to convert between the 12 and 24 hour clock. We have also solved time related problems by converting minutes to seconds, days to weeks and months to years. Next week, we will be learning about time durations and how to calculate them, building on our knowledge of time from previous weeks. In our times tables, we continue to focus on our 7s.

In science, we have continued our learning about the water cycle. We set up an experiment in our classrooms and created our own mini water cycles. We have enjoyed observing them each day and seeing the water droplets that have formed. We will then be able to use the vocabulary, ‘evaporation’ and ‘condensation’ to describe how the water cycle works.

In Art, we have continued to develop our clay pots. We have now finished creating them using the clay and some of us have started giving them a base layer of white paint, in preparation for next week, when we will decorate them using colours inspired by the Ancient Greek pots we explored earlier on in the topic. They are coming along very nicely!

We enjoyed our class swap again this week, playing rounders’ together in PE and continuing to design our Hardware Investigators leaflets in computing. This week, we learnt how to input images, change fonts and colours and even manipulate the background on each page. Everyone is mixing well in their new classes and getting used to new friendly faces. We are very proud of the positivity and maturity that year 4 are demonstrating, ready for year 5.

PE days for Year 4 in the summer term will be Tuesdays and Thursdays

Our library day is Friday - please bring books into school every week