A very warm welcome to Willow class web page – I hope you find the information below useful!

Welcome to Mr Jenkins’s class. Here is all you need to know for the Summer term.

Swimming

Swimming will be on Monday mornings.

Outdoor PE

This will take place on Friday afternoons in Term 5.

Outdoor PE Kits should include long warm jogging trousers, a red T-Shirt, trainers, (Please send velcro fasteners if your child is unable to tie their laces) and a fleece type jacket.  Please find a link to purchase our new Saltford School red sports fleeces here. Please keep these in school all week as sometimes we have to adjust our P.E. slots. Please ensure your child comes to school with their Saltford School PE kit in a named bag. Please can you also ensure all items in the bag are named.

Indoor PE

There will be no indoor PE this term.

Summer term 2026

In Geography, we will be learning about Earthquakes and Volcanoes. 

Our History unit is Ancient Greece. 

In Science, we will be looking at ‘Light and Sound‘ in T5 and in T6, the topic will be ‘Rocks and Soils’.

Any named resources you could bring in to support this work are always well received.

Homework

Please see this letter here  giving further information about homework expectations in Y3 and Y4.

Reading:.

We actively encourage daily reading with your child. Your support with this is greatly appreciated. Please continue to read with your child daily, ensuring you sign their planner clearly marked with an H (Home Reading)

All children will need to bring their reading folders every day. Daily reading is expected in some form at home.  It is amazing how reading for just 10-20 minutes a day can make such a difference to your child’s progress. Please see our presentation about how you can support your child’s reading at home here. Please continue to fill in their bookmarks in line with our “Reading for the stars” initiative. We will monitor the planners and bookmarks each Monday.

Spellings will be given out on a Friday and tested the following Friday.  Please support your child with their spellings and sentences. For more information on our new spelling scheme, please see the letter here.

The Doodle Maths app is an excellent resource provided by the school and when used regularly can have a huge impact on your children’s progress. Following advice from Doodle, they have said little and often is the most effective way for children to use Doodle Maths. So we expect children to use it 4 – 5 x weekly, 10 minutes each time. This means teachers will now be looking at the number of days completed each week and the time the children have taken on it. This will provide the optimum conditions for the algorithm to work as it is designed to do. Please can you sign your child’s planner once this is completed.  Staff will monitor this on a Friday morning.

Times tables will be set and tested on Fridays. We will be using TT rockstars in school with the children working on an iPad in their times tables test sessions to provide them with targeted times tables questions, focussing on any areas of weakness. TT Rockstars will be able to identify the tables that the children need additional practice on. Children will also be able to use TT Rockstars at home, if you would like them to, to reinforce their understanding from their work in school.

In the meantime there are lots of fun times tables games online to help with these:

https://ttrockstars.com  The children will know their logins for this fantastic website, which they use regularly in school.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16

YouTube has useful videos, including songs for times tables. 

Further information.

For more information, please see our Summer term letter. 

For more information about Year 4 camp, please see the presentation here. For Y4 Health and Relationships education, please see here. Our presentation about the Y4 Multiplication Tables Check can be found here.

Please do come and speak to us if you have anything you would like to discuss.