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 21^st November 2025

Dates for your diary

Tuesday 25^th November: Juniper forest school afternoon. Please provide at least wellies and waterproofs or send your child in in suitable forest school clothing.

Wednesday 26^th November: Ash forest school afternoon – see above re clothing.

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 with multiplication tables up to the 12x table as well as finding out what happens when you multiply and divide by 0 and 1.

English: Expanding on our work last week on the Iron Man, this week the children have been inventing their own menus to feed the Iron Man using multiple clauses, noun phrases and alliteration, have created their own characters and have started to plan their own version of the story which they will write next week.

History: Crime and punishment in Anglo-Saxon times has been the focus this week, with the children finding out about Anglo-Saxon justice and enjoyed working out how much Wergeld they would get depending on which part of the body might have been injured as well as deciding whether the current system of justice if fairer than the Anglo-Saxon one.

Science: The children have been finding out more about circuits and switches, in particular what a circuit needs to work and what the purpose of a switch is.

DT: The children have started thinking about the light-up Christmas decorations they will soon be creating in DT.

PSHE: This week, we have continued to focus on well-being, journaling in our journals and finding out about how to manage our feelings.

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.