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, we continued our learning about Greek Mythology. We started to plan our own myths and thought about the characters, settings and plot, while thinking about the structure and features of a myth. We used our knowledge of inverted commas and carefully punctuated some dialogue between two characters. Next week, we will be taking the time to edit and improve our work, including the accurate use of punctuation, spelling and grammar, before writing the journeys our characters will take to resolve a problem. We will then write our myths to share with our friends and family.

This week in Maths, we started by finding the area of rectilinear shapes. We moved on to identifying and finding co-ordinates. We then used this knowledge to plot co-ordinates to create our own polygons. To end the week, we looked at translated shapes on a grid and worked out how many squares they had moved. Next week, we will be estimating where numbers are on a number time, then we will be rounding numbers to estimate answers to a calculation and learning to use the inverse to check answers. We will end the week recapping our times tables knowledge, in preparation for out Multiplication Tables Check in June.

In science, we explored the journey that sound vibrations make through the ear. We explored the pitch of musical instruments before moving on to making our own panpipes to experience this for ourselves. We found out that blowing into the longer straw made a lower pitch sound and that blowing into the shorter straw made a higher pitch sound.

In PSHE, we talked about the positive things about having friends but also are there any negative things about friendships? We explored changes in friendships and whether this is a normal part of life, and as we get older our friendship groups can change. In small groups, we discussed ways in which friendships can change or end and listed these on a post it.

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