Cobalt

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

Welcome back!

In English this week, we have started learning about the features of explanation texts. We rehearsed the features by making our own imaginative designs of a flying machine writing an engaging opening to our own explanations. Next week, we will be writing some sentences to explain how a dishwasher works using the imaginary version in the book, ‘Until I met Dudley.’ We will focus on the use of subordinate clauses and adverbial phrases, and check that our punctuation is accurate.

In Maths this week, we have continued to learn about perimeter. We have learnt the steps for finding out the lengths of unknown sides and used our multiplication and division skills to calculate the perimeter and side lengths for a range of regular polygons. We have also completed a fun investigation which involved arranging sets of triangles together in order to make the longest and shortest perimeters. Next week, we will be learning and practising our 8 x tables.

In PSHE, we read the story, ‘Ruby’ by Maggie Glen. We identified what is special about ourselves, and valued the ways in which we are all unique. We practised liking ourselves, and respecting our own unique features. We thought about the adjectives that best describe us and wrote them around our own self-portraits.

As artists, we have been learning all about the painter Henri Rousseau. We enjoyed learning lots of interesting facts about him, before moving on to exploring sketching using different pencils, soft and oil pastels, and paint. We then went on to create our own drawings and paintings inspired by the style of Henri Rousseau. We are so proud of the finished results – they look amazing!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

PE days for year 4 will be on Mondays and Thursdays

Please bring in library books on a Friday