week commencing 19th February
Here is a breakdown of what we will be looking at over the coming week:
English- We will be beginning a new unit of work based around persuasive writing. We will be looking for the key features for a persuasive letter and then work towards writing our own persuasive letters about halting the destruction of the rainforests.
Maths- We will be working on the most efficient way to multiply 2 digit by 1 digit numbers and also beginning to think about measuring area and simple coordinates.
Alongside this we will be doing a weekly times table challenge and working towards membership of the 100 or 144 club and I would like all children to work hard on their tables to achieve this!
Reading- All children read with an adult at least once a week as part of a Guided Reading programme. After this adult led session they complete tasks relating to the text or linked to current English and Spelling focuses. We continue to read stories as a class.
ICT- We are still holding an extra ICT session each week to introduce the children to touch typing. This a free to use course and is accessible to everyone. If you would like to continue this at home, I have included the link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr
This week in ICT we will be continuing our fact-files about the rainforest animals they have researched.
PE- PE lessons are on Tuesdays and Thursdays and children will need their PE kits. I would also like to remind you that the school policy is that all earrings should be removed, hair should be tied back and tights should be removed when getting changed.
I would also ask that PE kits stay in school between Monday and Friday as occasionally we are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take part in additional activities.
This half term we will be doing Gym sequences, including methods of travelling including a jump, and a Boot camp of circuits to improve fitness, stamina and muscle tone and will continue to run the daily mile.
Topic- Our topic for this term is rainforests. We will be learning about their strata and make up, the animals and people who live there and the effects of deforestation and pollution. We will now be moving on to learning about the types of plants found in the rainforest which can be used for medicines, using the book The Shaman’s Apprentice.
PSHE- We will be starting a new scheme of work called Apple’s friends which will help children to understand their feelings and relationships with others. There will also be some simple tasks for the children to complete at home.
In addition to this we will be doing some lessons focusing on the differences between helpful and unhelpful pressure and the benefit of talking to trusted adults when the need arises.
Homework- Homework is given out on a Friday and should be returned by the following Friday.
In addition to tasks given out I expect the children to read every day and continue to practise the multiplication tables.
I will be collecting the reading records in every week to check children are reading and would ask that you initial or sign to show they have read and make any comments you deem necessary, children should also record all independent reading they have done in the book so I am able to see that they are reading regularly.
Children should feel free to keep a book for as long as they need to in order to finish reading.
If you have any concerns about your child’s book choice, please speak to me or write me a note.
Successes– Well done to AJ, Yuliana and Zamira who achieved merits this week! Well done to Rainbow table who won our last table points competition! Well done to Aishu who has reached the 100 club!
Additional information- Here are some useful dates for the diary.
1st and 14th March- Parent teacher meetings will take place.
Many thanks for all your support in raising money for the NSPCC! The children had a fabulous time with our sports and Maths treasure hunt.
Week beginning 19th February 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#c8feb0″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Welcome back to school! We hope you enjoyed your half term break. School starts again on Monday 19th February at 8.50am. [/dropshadowbox]
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THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
LITERACY:
Book Focus: The Gingerbread Man
Phonics: Group Phonics will resume this week, reviewing previous sounds and focusing on speedy blending of cvc words
MATHS: This week we will focus on developing children’s use of language related to concepts of time, position and size
PE: Gymnastics. This week the children will learn about different types of jumps [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#0c21cf” ]HOMEWORK: will be sent out on Friday 23rd February 2018
READING BOOKS: Please remember to send in your child’s reading book with yellow diary. [/dropshadowbox]
Week beginning 19th February 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#c8feb0″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Welcome back to school! We hope you enjoyed your half term break. School starts again on Monday 19th February at 8.50am. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#5c288c” ]SPRING TERM 2 TOPIC: Traditional Tales
THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
LITERACY:
Book Focus: The Gingerbread Man
Phonics: Group Phonics will resume this week, reviewing previous sounds and focusing on speedy blending of cvc words
MATHS: This week we will focus on developing children’s use of language related to concepts of time, position and size
PE: Gymnastics. This week the children will learn about different types of jumps [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#0c21cf” ]HOMEWORK: will be sent out on Friday
READING BOOKS: Please remember to send in reading books with yellow diaries on the following days:
Mondays- Red group
Tuesdays- Blue group
Wednesdays- Green group
Thursdays- Orange Group
Fridays – Yellow group
Please note that there will not be Show and Tell this term so please do not send in any items to share. Show and tell will return in the Summer term. [/dropshadowbox]
Southwark News Week Beginning 19th February 2018
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Welcome to the Spring term. We are looking forward to a new half term in Southwark Bridge Class. This week our learning will be as follows;[/dropshadowbox]
- In Mathematics we will look at efficient methods for multiplying 2 digit numbers by a 1 digit number as well as beginning to look at measuring area and coordinates.
- In English we will introduce a new genre- persuasive letter writing. We will be discovering the ingredients which make a successfully persuasive letter and pulling apart a model letter in preparation for innovating our own letters based around saving our rain forest.
- In Science we will learn about Sound during ppa with Ms Siames.
- In Topic time we will learn about the effect deforestation has on the peoples who live in the rain forest.
- During P.E lessons we shall continue our gymnastics unit, linking tuck,pike and straddle jumps with balances and travelling.
- During French lessons we will continue our work on the date. Now that we know the months of the year and numbers to 31 we will be learning the days of the week.
Thank you to all the children who brought sponsorship money for the NSPCC into school. If you have outstanding money it is not too late to bring it into school. Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed our sport and multiplication treasure hunt.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dates for your diary
It will shortly be parent’s evening on the 1st or 14th March. I look forward to sharing your child’s progress over the last term of year 4 with you. In addition, we would like to invite you to come in to school to watch our class assembly at 9.10am on Monday 5th March. We will be performing a short play based around the book-The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry to share our learning about saving the rain forest. Hopefully you will be able to join us when we perform our assembly to the key stage. [/dropshadowbox]
Week Beginning 19th February 2018
We are looking forward to a new half term in Waterloo Bridge Class. This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will look at shape. We will draw, model and describe the properties of two and three dimensional shapes. We will learn to identify horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular lines.
- In English we will introduce a new story Escape from Pompeii by Christina Ballit. We will make predictions and explore the story using drama. We will also use the story to find out about Pompeii during Roman times.
- In Science we will learn about soil formation.
- In Topic time we will learn about the eruption of Vesuvius in AD. 79 and the destruction of Pompeii.
- In RE we will start a new unit on Christian Sacred and Inspirational Writings. This week we will learn about the Bible story of the Temptation in the Wilderness and about how Christians remember the story during Lent.
Thank you to all the children who brought sponsorship money for the NSPCC into school. If you have outstanding money it is not too late to bring it into school.
Week beginning 19th February 2018.
Week beginning 19th February 2018.
Welcome to the second half of the spring term.
In Maths this week, we will learn about 3D shapes as well perpendicular and parallel lines.
In English, we will start on a new story, Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit.
In Topic, we will continue our learning about earthquakes.
In Science, we will learn about animals including humans.
We look forward to meeting you during the Parent Teacher dates which will be communicated to you.
Please encourage your child to use Mathletics, Spellodrome and Teach your monster regularly.
We thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Taggart.
Mrs Glenn.
Mrs Tooze.
Mrs Edgeler.
Week beginning 19th February 2018
I hope that you’ve had a fantastic week off! We have a busy and exciting term ahead of us.
Our learning objectives for the first week back will be as follows:
Writing
We will be continuing to use Dr Xargle’s Book of Earthlets as a stimulus for our writing. This week we will be ‘reading as writers’. We will be using the following structure to help us to ‘box up’ the text.
The children will then be given the opportunity to design their own alien and spacecraft which will form the basis of their own non-chronological report. They will use the boxed up plan as a template and plan an innovation text.
Reading
Our next class read will be Charlotte’s Web by E.B White.
Phonics/ SPaG
We will not be doing phonics this week. Instead myself and Miss Brown are each going to be teaching the opposite class for the first hour of each day. We have found that mixing the children for phonics has been beneficial. It is something new that we are trialling to develop and enhance our professional practice and have a growing understanding of the cohort as a whole.
Maths
Miss Brown will be teaching the maths in 2H this week. We will be recapping using arrays. We will then be looking at multiplying by 2, 5 and 10.
Please have a look at this example of an array.
We can represent multiplication calculations as repeated addition. For example 8 x 2 is the same as 2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2 = 16.
PSHE
We will be continuing with Zippy’s Friends. We are looking at what makes a good friend. Please speak to your child about these sessions (which always take place on a Thursday afternoon).
P.E.
Monday: athletics.
Wednesday: circuits (planning/ peer teaching based on our prior PE sessions). Science
We are looking at differences between plants and animals and variation between animals. We will also be looking at seasonal changes.
Half Term
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Wishing you a restful half term.
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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#181cf7″ ]We have not set any homework over half term but you are welcome to use the following learning videos to practise some of the things the children have been learning
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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#a723bf” ]What to look forward to next term?
SPRING 2 TOPIC: Traditional Tales
The children will be exploring a range of traditional stories in Spring Term 2. We would like to encourage all children to celebrate World Book Day with us on 1st March 2018 by dressing up as their favourite book character.[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#48f6e4″ ]IMPORTANT DATES
Monday, 19th February 2018 – Children return to school
Thursday, 1st March 2018 – World Book Day. (Children may dress as their favourite book character, £1 donation)
More important dates to follow after half term[/dropshadowbox]
Half Term
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Well done to the children who received certificates for completing all their homework in the Spring 1 Term. Also, huge congratulations to all the children making good progress with learning their animal word lists.
Wishing you a restful break.
Kind regards.
Miss Pillay[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#181cf7″ ]We have not set any homework over half term but you are welcome to use the following learning videos to practise some of the things the children have been learning
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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#a723bf” ]What to look forward to next term?
SPRING 2 TOPIC: Traditional Tales
The children will be exploring a range of traditional stories in Spring Term 2. We would like to encourage all children to celebrate World Book Day with us on 1st March 2018 by dressing up as their favourite book character.[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#48f6e4″ ]IMPORTANT DATES
Monday, 19th February 2018 – Children return to school
Thursday, 1st March 2018 – World Book Day. (Children may dress as their favourite book character, £1 donation)
More important dates to follow after half term[/dropshadowbox]
Monday 12th February, 2018
It’s been a busy and exciting Half-term and we thank you for all your help and support. All your children are enjoying their learning and has made good progress. We have a lot of budding authors as well as artists following our creative writing of Space stories and doing lovely space art pictures. Children have enjoyed chatting to our own resident ‘astronaut ‘ as part of their learning about Space.
Half-Term Week – Monday 12th February – Friday 16th February, 2018
Parent’s Evening this term will be on – Thursday March 1st, 2018 & Wednesday March 14th, 2018
Our Mathletic winners
Silver Award
Lambeth class -Tanush, Rebeka, Harry, Francis, Patrick, Zuzanna
Vauxhall Class- Nathan
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class
Monae, Suden, Maxwell, Alvin, Zofia, Sheznin, Martin, Vera, Kamil
Vauxhall Class – Diyanesh, Ethan,Taliyah,Sarah,Abigail,Yah
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class – Tanush – 4650 Points
Vauxhall Class – Abigail – 4203 Points
Our Learning this term…
Our context for learning for the next term is ‘It’s Raining! It’s Pouring’!
Our focus is on geography – we are learning to identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles. Children will be using atlases and developing their locational knowledge of UK and its capital cities.
English
We will be writing recounts of our holidays and learn about the different features of poems – stanza, repetition, rhyming words, onomatopoeic words, rhythm… Children will read a range of rain poems and will learn to perform poems.
Maths
We will be learning what is fraction (equal parts of a whole) and learn to make halves and quarters of shapes and amounts. They will continue to develop their skills in counting in 2’s/ 5’s/10’s forward and back from different numbers.
Counting in 2’s…
Counting in 5’s
Counting in 10’s
Doubling & Halving
Fractions
Science
We will finish our learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
Art
In Art we will be exploring patterns and create a patterned umbrella using a range of media. Please support your child by looking at different designs / patterns you can choose.
P.E
Children will continue developing their gym skills.
PSHE
In PSHE, our topic is called ‘Good to be Me’. We will be thinking about their talents and what talents/skills they have that children are proud about.
Music
We will continue to sing using our voices creatively and learn about rhythm and tempo.
R.E.
We will be continuing our learning about different religions focusing on the basic principles of Islam.