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 – Friday 27^th  February 2026

Dates for your diary

Class assembly – On Tuesday 3^rd March, the children will be showing off some of their learning from Year 4. The assembly will start at 9.10. Please wait outside the front gates until you are called in.

Parents’ meetings wb 2^nd March – Please make sure you arrive on time to your meeting and, if you haven’t booked yet, book an appointment through the app. We look forward to seeing you all next week.

World book day – Thursday 5^th March: Children may dress up as a favourite book character and bring a book to share if they wish.

Friday 13^th March - morning: Local history walking tour: Both classes will be exploring the village of Stratton to cement some of our local history learning. If you are able to help to walk with the children, please let your child’s teacher know.

Church visit Monday 9^th March – Both classes will be visiting the church on Monday 9^th March as part of their RE curriculum coverage. The timings for the classes are below. We will need volunteers to help walk down and back with us. If you can help, please contact your child’s teacher.

Timings for the church:

Ash – Leave school at 8.55 – 9.15 start, 10.15 finish.

Juniper – Leave school at 10.05 – 10.30 start, 11.30 finish.

Tuesday 31st March: KS2 project day

Our Learning this week:

Maths: This week, the children have started their learning on length and perimeter. They learnt what perimeter is and how to find the perimeter of rectangles and rectilinear shapes.

English: This week, the children have planned, written and edited their own versions of Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant which they will publish next week.

Science: The children started their learning about the digestive system and the organs that help this system work correctly. They learnt what the jobs were of the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestines and the large intestines.

PE: The children started their tennis learning this week with a tennis coach.

Homework:

Maths: Please complete the assigned sessions of Times Table Rockstars that have been set. You can log in at this link https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school. The children should be completing 15 minutes per week. This will be 5 minutes in the Soundcheck area and 10 minutes in the Garage.

Reading: Please read five times a week at home. Reading completed in school does not count towards the five times. Please remember to send in reading books with your child

every day.

Spellings: Please complete 8 games on Spelling Shed www.edshed.com

Have a lovely weekend!

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.