Welcome to Year 4!

Your Class teachers are Mr Seldon (Ash Class) and Mrs Loudwill (Juniper Class).

Please contact them at:

jasonseldon@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

and catloudwill@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Ash and Juniper Weekly Update – Thursday 2^nd April 2026

Dates for your diary

Thursday 2^nd April – Final day of the half term.

Monday 20^th April – First day back to school

W/b 27.4.26 – Parent meeting re Year 4 residential (date tbc)

Wednesday 6^th – Thursday 7^th May – Year 4 residential (Adventure Bude)

Parent Newsletter: Mrs Glasby has not been able to send the parent newsletter out yet due to a technical issue. Please check the school website for the newsletter instead: Newsletters | Stratton Primary School 

Thank you so much to all the parents who helped out with our history walk around Stratton the week before last, we could not have done it without you. Photographs of your child’s trip can now be found on this webpage. The children were fascinated to see for themselves the historical buildings we had talked about back in the classroom. Juniper class were amazed to bump into Mr Diamond, whose father had been the first person to break soil on the then new estate on the former Hillhead Farm and Ash class loved going on a personalised tour of the Tree Inn by the current owners!

Our Learning this week:

It’s been an action packed week this week with the children enjoying showing off their creations on project day, making, sampling and evaluating their own pasta sauces in DT and finally taking part in an Easter egg hunt with their buddies around the school.

Project afternoon

Wow! What an amazingly creative and talented bunch Year 4 are, from detailed models of tombs to stunning artwork, exciting games and tricky codes to delicious baking! Project day had it all! Well done to everyone for completing and presenting their projects so confidently. We are very proud of you all! Thank you too to all of the parents and carers who supported their children both in person on the day and behind the scenes at home. Your efforts are very much appreciated.

English: For their final write this week, the children wrote a non-chronological report all about Ancient Egypt. After writing, they took the time to edit their work for punctuation, spelling, fronted adverbials and paragraphing amongst other things. Mr Seldon and Mrs Loudwill are very much looking forward to reading these over the holidays!

Maths: Who would have thought a few weeks ago that the children would be subtracting missed and improper fractions with such confidence. There is still work to be done but they have worked really hard to boost their understanding of this tricky topic over the past few weeks.

History: The children have continued to work on their posters about Ancient Egypt, adding illustration, maps and diagrams to improve their presentation. They were also excited to find out the results of the tomato mummification experiment that was set up last week – why not ask them about it!

PE: The children took part in their final tennis coaching session to end the week, demonstrating how to try and play a long rally with back hand and fore hand shots.

Homework:

We would be very grateful if children could continue to complete their times table homework over the holidays where possible and would love it if they could find time to share and read their favourite stories with you over the Easter break.

Have a lovely Easter break and we look forward to welcoming you all back in the summer term!

Mr Seldon and Mrs Loudwill

Homework Expectations in Year 4

Reading:

Children in KS2 are expected to read 5 times a week for 15-20 minutes at a time. 

Spelling:

In Year 4, children are expected to compelte 8 games on Ed Shed.

Maths:

In Year 4, children are expected to complete 4 soundchecks and 5 garage sessions a week.

Homework is set every Friday and then it is checked on the subsequent Friday.