Ash and Juniper Weekly Update – Friday 6th December 2024

Key dates:

Friday 13th December - Juniper Class Forest School (wellies and coats needed please)

Wednesday 18th December - Christmas Dinner Day

Wednesday 18th December - Ash Class Forest School (wellies and coats needed please)

Thursday 19th December - bike track 

Friday 20th December - Christmas Party Day - the children will select which food to bring in next week and the information will be shared on here next Friday. 

Friday 20th December - Last day of term

Tuesday 7th January - First day of the spring term

Homework club after school on a Tuesday (until 4pm) - it is not too late to sign up to this club. If you would like to, please contact Mrs Carpenter. 

Our Learning this week:

English:  This week, we have continued to read more of 'The Iron Man' and the children are really becoming invested in the story. It has been lovely to have the childen reading the text to each other in class more and more this week. Plus, they  are really taking key snippets from the text and using this in their writing, which has been brilliant to see as their writing has reeally benefitted. Some of their descriptive language choices have been truly impressive. 

Maths: This week we have been recapping the multiplication and division facts for the 3, 6 and 9 times table and also spent a couple of days focusing on the 7 times table too. Please remember that the children can practice their tables on TTRS for their homework or Hit The Button as an extra if they would like to increase their confidence in recalling their multiplication and division facts. 

Science: The children were given the task of sorting our complete and incomplete circuits this week to test their understanding of their learning so far. 

Music: In music, the children have been being exposed to one new ABBA song a week in their lessons before then continuing to practice the song 'Mamma Mia'. They are really enjoying this both in terms of learning to sing the song and learning to play different musical instruments alongside this to accompany it. So far we have used the glockenspiels, egg shakers and claves. 

History: Moving on with our Viking learning further, this week, the children drew maps to show the paths the Vikings took from their homelands to England and then learnt where they settled. Then, in a subsequent lesson, we have begun to look at what life was like as a Viking in England. We will be continuing with this next week as the children are creating information posters about this. 

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you all on Monday!

Miss Barriball & Mrs Carpenter

Ash Class: hannahbarriball@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Juniper Class:  kerrycarpenter@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

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.