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 16^th January 2026

Dates for your diary

Swimming – W/C Monday 26^th January– every day. Please come to school with your swimming costume/trunks on underneath your school uniform.  (Don’t forget to pack underwear!)  Please also make sure you have given your consent. Thank you, we now have enough volunteers to walk and will be contacting those who offered this week. Timings for volunteers are as follows:

Ash – Leaving school at 9.05. Back to school by 11.00.

Juniper – Leaving school at 9.55. Back to school by 11.45.

Our Learning this week:

Maths: This week, the children have begun to learn the formal method for multiplication which we will be continuing with next week. Having quick times tables recall is an essential skill to facilitate so please make sure your child is completing their TTRS homework.

English: The children have enjoyed writing wintery poems, creating speeches in order to persuade Cora to remain Queen of Winter and have also used fronted adverbials to summarise the main parts of the story of Findleswylde.

Science: The children have been experimenting with different sized chocolate buttons as they continue to learn about states of matter. They had to use their investigative and predictive skills to decide whether small or large chocolate buttons would melt the fastest.

PE: The children enjoyed more dodgeball this week and Juniper have had their first dance session with Miss Dingle. Ash class will have their second session next week. Scott, the coach teaching the children dodgeball is running a netball club after school every Friday until 4:15 which still has a few spaces. Please send an email to your child’s teacher if your child would like to attend.

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.