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 1^st May 2026

Dates for your diary

Monday 4^th May: May Day Bank Holiday – school closed.

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

Consent forms for residential: If you have not already done so, please complete the consent form with your child and return it to your child’s teacher ASAP.

Our Learning this week:

Thank you for attending the meeting regarding next week’s residential. The children and staff are all very excited to go. If you have any questions, please get in touch with your child’s class teacher. Don’t forget to complete the behaviour contract and return this to school as soon a possible. Thank you.

Spelling homework: Some children are experiencing problems logging into their Edshed accounts. This is being looked into. In the meantime, please email your child’s class teacher if you are having problems and to let them know whether or not your child has completed this homework. Thank you.

English: The children have continued their learning centred on our book ‘The Matchbox Diary’. They have added speech punctuation to their scripts from last week, written a diary entry using noun phrases and have written a short autobiographical piece about significant events in their lives using small objects from home as prompts.

Maths: We have continued with our work on decimals this week, dividing 1 and 2 digit numbers by 10 and 100 and learning about hundredths.

Geography: The children learned about how and why the Earth’s climate is changing looking at renewable energy sources as a means to mitigate climate change.

Science: After learning about vertebrates and invertebrates, the children were thrilled to get the opportunity to handle some animals during their visit from the Really Wild team (see photos). They had a fantastic time with many pushing themselves out of their comfort zones to be near or touch the variety of animals brought in to share. If you have never come across one before, you might like to look up tenrecs – what incredible creatures!

PE: Continuing with gymnastics, the children focussed on using body tension to improve their flight in the air whilst jumping on and off apparatus and travelling between equipment. Sports day practise continued in our athletics unit this week.

Homework:

Maths: NEW ADDITION TO HOMEWORK: In addition to the Garage and Soundcheck sessions set, please complete 3 rounds in the Studio setting. https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school.

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 great 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. From this week please also complete 3 Studio games.

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