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

Our week in Year 4…

In English this week, we continued with our non-fiction module, learning about travel leaflets. We continued to take inspiration from the texts, ‘Africa, Amazing Africa’ and ‘India, incredible India.’ We looked at some of the locations in Hemel Hempstead and wrote persuasive sentences to encourage people to visit. We thought about the power of three, rhetorical questions and the use of expanded noun phrases. Next week, we will be focussing on our presentation and we will write our travel leaflets using our best handwriting, with a focus on ascenders and descenders, and the correct letter formation.

In Maths this week, we have continued our learning on fractions, focussing on mixed numbers and improper fractions. We have used lots of diagrams to help us understand how to add and subtract mixed numbers and improper fractions. The methods can be very tricky, but we have practiced lots and have been able to use our times tables knowledge to help us.

As well as this, we have continued to work hard on our times tables with some daily rockin’ as we approach our Year 4 MTC. Practising little and often both at home and in school really does make all the difference, so keeeeeepppp rockin’ Year 4!! Next week, we will be focussing on our times tables and we will continue with our daily chanting and other methods of practice. We will concentrate on being as fluent and accurate as possible with the range of facts up to 12 x 12.   

During PSHE, we had to think about people, pets, places, objects and memories that are special to us, and discuss why we appreciate them. We then created rainbows which captured our thoughts and expressed our gratitude.

As scientists, we explored how distance affects sound. To help test the theory, we made string telephones with different lengths string to see if the sound increased or decreased the longer the string got.

 In History, we have explored the significant legacies of the Ancient Greek civilization. These included democracy, maths, the alphabet, science and medicine, theatre, democracy and of course, the Olympics. We explored each legacy and considered what modern life would be like without it. We then voted on which legacy we thought was the most important. Afterwards, we focussed in on the legacy of the Olympics and had a go at designing our own Ancient Greek Olympic programme of events.

Next week, we are very much looking forward to curriculum week:

Monday – Art day

Tuesday – Drama day

Wednesday – Sustainability day

Thursday – Music day

 

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:

Dua and Margot

Tate and Bobby

Drew and Mattie

Charlie and Archie

Kenny - for helping a friend to complete his work.

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

x5 Iyana Charlie

x6 Bobby Logan Isaac

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

 

Logan

Isaac Bobby Henry Sienna Monty Mattie Georgia  Cooper Dom

• 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

  WB 11.05.26 We used string telephones to learn how sound travels over long distances.

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• WB 08.05.26 We had lots of fun exploring amplitude!

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  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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