- Stratton Primary School,
- New Road,
- Stratton,
- Bude,
- Cornwall,
- EX23 9AP
- E: secretary@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk
- T: 01288 353196
Year 4: Ash, Juniper
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 24th April 2026
Dates for your diary
Monday 27th April – Parent meeting re Year 4 residential – Wait outside the front of the school at 2.50 and someone will let you in.
Wednesday 6th – Thursday 7th May – Year 4 residential (Adventure Bude)
Residential
If you cannot attend the meeting on Monday, we will upload the PowerPoint from the meeting at some point next week.
The kit list for the residential can be found below.
Our Learning this week:
English: The children completed their corrections and published part of their NCR about Howard Carter. After this, they moved onto their new book ‘Matchbox Diary’. They predicted what the story could have been about and wrote down a character’s thoughts and feelings.
Maths: The children started their new learning around decimals this week. The learnt about tenths as a fraction and decimal before moving onto dividing a 1-digit and 2-digit number by 10.
Geography: The children started their learning about climate change this week. They learnt about the greenhouse effect.
Science: The children continued their ‘animals including human’s’ topic from last half term. They learnt how to group and classify different animals by their characteristics.
PE: The children started their gymnastics and athletics learning this week.
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 great weekend!
Mr Seldon and Mrs Loudwill
Weekly Updates
Residential 2026
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.
Multiplication Tables Check - Guide for Parents
Local History walk - Ash
Local History Trip - Juniper
Egyptians in the Forest
Bike track afternoon
Juniper Egyptian investigation
World Book Day Juniper
Honey Cake Recipe
Spring term - Ash
Spring Term - Juniper
Harvest Festival
