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 14^th November 2025

Dates for your diary

Christmas Fete is next Friday after school.  Can you help out on a stall for half an hour? If you can please contact one of the ‘Friends’.  Thank you. Don’t forget to send your sold or unsold raffle tickets back into school.

The £40.00 deposit for our residential is due on the 26^th November in order for us to secure our booking.  If this is a problem, please let us or the office know.

Our Learning this week:

Maths: This week, we have continued to practice our multiplication tables learned in year 3 as well as the 6s, 7s, 9s and 11s.

English: The children read parts of their new book this week – ‘The Iron Man’. They spent time focusing on how to use speech punctuation correctly, wrote a character description - focusing on similes and wrote a diary entry as Hogarth.

History: We have continued our learning about the Anglo-Saxons by looking at the meanings of Anglo-Saxon and Viking place names, specifically the endings of places i.e. -ford, -ham and -by. Lots of places around England still have these endings to their names.

Science: The children made their own circuits and learnt how to draw them using the correct symbols for each piece of equipment they used.

DT: The children will be making their Christmas decorations over the next few weeks. There will be a letter going out on Monday to explain more about this and about a donation towards equipment.

PSHE: As this week was Anti-Bullying week, the children spent lots of time talking about this and what they could do if they ever saw signs of someone being bullied. They talked about being an ‘Upstander’ and using the ‘Power of good’ to help try and stop any bullying that might happen in the future.

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.