YEAR 4/5
MR SEDDON
Mr Seddon has spent nearly a year teaching at Haslington Primary Academy in 2022-23 and had such a positive experience secured a permanent position back with us this year. He is an experienced teacher, having taught for 28 years and brings a wealth of experience to our school. He strives to ensure children enjoy all aspects of their learning as well as developing their independence, self-confidence and self-esteem, in a friendly, open and caring class environment. Mr Seddon is also responsible for History and Geography – two of his very favourite subjects!
The Year 4/5 class is superbly supported by Miss Cragg, who is an amazing teaching assistant. Miss Cragg cares deeply for the children in our school and makes learning fun and engaging for all our children. She supports the children both inside and outside of the classroom and encourages children to show their potential in everything they do.
CURRICULUM INFORMATION
Each term we focus on a range of different units of work. You can find more information about what we are learning at the beginning of each term on the curriculum planners at the bottom of this page.
HOMEWORK EXPECTATIONS
In Year 4/5, children will bring home weekly maths homework which will reinforce learning that has already taken in place in the classroom and develop their arithmetic and multiplication tables recall. This work will be sent home on a Thursday and is to be returned on a Tuesday. There will be a mixture of quick-fire questions and problems to consider, with space to work out the answers. If they have a really good try at completing their maths homework each week, they will receive an extra smiley.
Children will also be expected to read at home five times a week and complete two reading activities in their reading journals. The reading is to be recorded in the reading record book and the activities are to be completed in the reading journal. Doing both of these will earn them 2 extra smileys.
Spellings to practice are recorded in the reverse of the reading journal. These spellings follow the pattern or rule being taught in class each week. Children do not take part in a spelling test but they do carry out a range of activities to reinforce their learning.
During the half term holidays, children will be set half term projects to complete, based on their learning in class. Completing this will earn the children up to 3 smileys each. In the summer, our holiday homework usually consists of a Maths, English and topic-based activity. For each activity completed, three smileys are earned with a bonus smiley for completing all three.
Please remember to check the Dojo page for regular updates and photos about what your child is learning in class and for whole school information.