Ash and Juniper Weekly Update – Friday 25th April 2025

Welcome back for our last term as Year 4!  

It was lovely to see so many of you at the residential meeting this week.  Hopefully you have now all had a copy of the kit list. If you have not signed a copy of the behaviour agreement, these are in the school office for you to do so.  

Key dates:  

Residential 8th/9th May.

Please ensure that the instalments for residential are fully paid up.

Our Learning this week:

English: Our text for the next few weeks is The Matchbox Diaries written by Paul Fleischman.  This week we have been thinking about how to write speech correctly, use modal verbs and how to add adverbs.    

Maths:  We have commenced our decimal unit of work. We have been placing tenths on a place value chart, number line and thinking about tenths as fractions. 

Geography: In geography we have been learning about 'The Greenhouse Effect' and 'Greenhouse Gases.'

Science: In science we have been thinking about the different types of teeth humans have and why they are different.  We have been learning about what teeth are made of and at what age humans get them.

Music: We are learning 'Lean on Me' by Bill Withers this half term.

TIMES TABLES: Please keep repeating them as often 

Miss Barriball & Mrs Carpenter

Ash Class: hannahbarriball@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Juniper Class:  kerrycarpenter@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

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.