Summer term

We hope that everybody had a super Easter break. We can't believe it's already the summer term! Alongside our residential, we have another term packed with new and engaging learning opportunities and plenty of chances for all the children to celebrate their successes and prepare for their transition to Year 5 later this year.

Can we ask that children have fully stocked pencil cases with the essentials they need to be ready to learn this term?

We have an open-door policy, so please come and talk to us if you have any questions, worries, or concerns.

Drop-off and collection times: 

Drop-off: 8:40 am (Register taken at 8:50 am)

Collection: 3:20 pm

Daily Equipment:   

• Please ensure your child brings their homework diary and a reading book in each day. 
• They are also welcome to bring in a small pencil case with a pencil, ruler, rubber, sharpener, black handwriting pen, purple pen and colouring pencils.   
• As we are an all-weather school, children should bring a coat with them each day, as they will be outside at playtimes unless the weather is terrible.    

 Dates for Spring Term 

April 

Mon 13th INSET day 

Tues 28th Year 4 top up swimming lessons 9:40am – 10:40am (10 lessons, finishing 7th July)

Sat 25th PTFA adult social

Wed 29th Apr– Fri 1st April Year 4 High Ashurst Trip

May 

Fri 8th May PTFA Bingo, after school, main hall

Fri 15th VR Headset Day Yr 3, 4 and 5, upper school group room

Fri 22nd Artists Day, whole school event, classrooms

May Half Term - 25th - 29th May

June 

Fri 12th PTFA Non-uniform day

Sat 13th PTFA Outdoor cinema

Mon 15th Class photos and Year 6 leavers photos, field / sports hall

Fri 26th One World Day, whole school event, classrooms

Tues 30th Moving up day

July 

Wed 1st KS2 Sports Day, all day

Fri 3rd INSET day 

Thurs 9th KS2 District Sports, Charter House School

Fri 10th Ice cream tuck shop (year 5)

Sat 11th ParkFest 2026

Wed 22nd Last day of term, 2pm school closure

PE days    

4BR: children will need to be in their P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

4G: children will need to be in their P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

 In Y4 the children will be having swimming lessons. Each class will have a total of 11 sessions each at Cranleigh School

This term, certain children will be asked back for extra 'top-up' lessons. We will let you know in due course. 

Maths   We follow the White Rose scheme of learning.   

More information is available here: White Rose Website 

Summer 1

Fractions/ Decimals

Pupils will be taught to:

• recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions
• count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by 100 and dividing tenths by 10
• solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number
• add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
• recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundreds
• recognise and write decimal equivalents to [Fraction:1/4], [Fraction:1/2], [Fraction:3/4]
• find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths
• round decimals with 1 decimal place to the nearest whole number
• compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to 2 decimal places
• solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to 2 decimal places

Summer 2

Maths homework : 

 Homework sessions will be set on TTRockstars. 

This will be 15 minutes on Garage each week plus 2 soundcheck games. Garage helps them to learn the tables they are not yet confident with, and Soundcheck prepares them for the Multiplication Tables Check. Once the set homework is complete, children can play any of the games for additional practice, including 'Jamming' to practise specific tables without the timer; 'Studio' to increase speed and Rock Status; and 'Soundcheck' to prepare for the summer term times tables test. 

https://ttrockstars.com/

 A maths homework sheet will also be sent home each Friday to be returned the following Friday. This will be additional arithmetic practice to aid children's fluency and familiarity with written methods that have been learned at school.

English

As a school, we use Talk4Writing as a framework- all units are based on this.

 Summer

Fiction Units

Non-fiction Units

Class Novel:  In class, we will begin reading Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo.  This tells an important story in an age-appropriate manner, it may open up some conversations at home about equality, racism and its history.  

English homework:

Reading: children should read daily and record in their homework diary.  

Spelling: at least 5 games on Spelling Shed each week (Spellings will be updated each Monday.)

     https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/

What are we doing in other subjects this half term?

Science: Sound  

History: complete  then  then 

Geography: complete  then  then 

Art:  

RE: complete  then  then 

ICT: 

PHSCE: 

MUSIC:  

(The children have a weekly music lesson with our music specialist teacher, Mrs Bell, in the music room) 

Library :

We visit the library as a class each week. The library is also open to the children every lunchtime and after school on Tuesdays (with an adult.)

Children may borrow two books for a period of two weeks.

At the end of the loan period, books must be returned to the school, where the loan can be renewed if required. If a book is lost, please talk to

Mrs Bickmore or Mrs Burnham. We ask for a contribution of £5.00 towards replacing lost books. Children can log in to their Reading Cloud

accounts from home to check their current loans or look for suggestions about what to read next.

                    To access Reading Cloud, click here.