Welcome to Southwark Bridge Class
A warm welcome to Southwark Class children, parents and carers.
Our Southwark team are:
Please click here for information on the Year 4 Statutory Times Tables Test
Class teacher-Miss Oasgood
Class teaching assistants - Mrs Glenn & Miss Griffiths
Please feel free to write us a note in your child’s homework diary, come and talk to us after school any day or phone the school to speak to us directly if there is anything you wish to discuss concerning your child.
Recommended reading books for Year 4:
Best Books for Year 4 | Y4 Reading List | BooksForTopics
Expertly selected books for 7 and 8 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)
Expertly selected books for 9 and 10 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)
Key Information:
- A wide selection of quality books have been purchased for this class this year and your child is encouraged to take home a book every day. Each time you sign to show your child has read at home, they will receive a marble towards their team jar. The team with the most marbles at the end of the week will be crown team of the week!
- Homework will be set on Friday and due in the following Friday unless stated otherwise on the homework (A longer time will be set for projects)
- Spellings will be learnt at school and tested on Mondays. Please click on link: school-links-spellingjournalyear4southwark-1
- In your child’s homework diary, they will have a green stamp at the end of each day to show they are following our school’s ‘Good to be Green’ behaviour policy. If they do not get a green stamp it is because they have not ended the day on a green card or have received a red card during the day. You will be notified by text if a red card consequence has occurred.
Things for you to try at home this week:
Real P.E (the programme we use for your twice weekly p.e lesson) now have a parent/home login for you to continue being active at home.
real PE at home includes an online programme which supports families to be active, play and learn together. It includes a programme specifically for children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 with 12 themes, 6 areas, over 250 activities and challenges and 1000s of hours of fun and activity. This programme is also great for family play and fun.
It also includes a programme for children in Key Stage 2, with daily and weekly guidance provided for both programmes (starting from next week) in addition to an option to choose your own themes and activities.
There are so many benefits to being active, not only to our physical wellbeing but also to our emotional and mental health, especially in such testing times for all of us. We hope that the ideas help support you and your family to stay fit and healthy in the coming months. Here are the details to access real PE at home:
The website address is: home.jasmineactive.com
Parent email: parent@howardprim-1.com
Password: howardprim
Maths-Use your Mathletics login to try the decimal tasks.
Reading-Write a book review for a book you are reading on Get Epic. You can print out or use the headings from this format if you like. Book-Review
Don’t forget you can let us know how you are doing and ask us any questions using Class Dojo.
Welcome to our home learning blog. The Year Four teaching team will be updating this blog regularly with home learning tasks designed for your children.
English:
Our Spelling learning this week is words which use the prefix ex- Here are some practising activities, games and tests to help your child learn these spelling words.
https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-733.htm
Our grammar focus is apostrophes. Here is a video to teach the rules and some games designed to help practise this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zx9ydxs
Reading:
We recommend a website for reading quality books online. We have set up a login for each class so you can access this resource for free.
https://www.getepic.com/students
Southwark Class Login details
Millennium Class Login Details
Writing task:
We have been exploring the story The Tin Forest by Helen Ward. Use this illustration from the story to write what might happen next.
Remember to include:
Fronted adverbial phrases
Conjunctions
Expanded noun phrases
Punctuation including capital letters, full stops, commas in lists and after adverbial phrases, inverted commas for speech and apostrophes for plural possession. We recommend the follow website which explain these grammar terms
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn
Maths:
We have updated Mathletics. Our focus this week is decimals please look at free websites like Topmarks for good activities and games or the free resources on Mathsframe. BBCBitesize has good free video teaching resources for decimals
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/471/Y4-Decimals-and-Fractions
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=decimal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zr6pvcw
Science:
We are learning the basic function of the digestion system in humans. Watch the following videos and explain how the digestive system works.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z27kng8
Topic/Geography:
Research the journey of chocolate from pod to product.
P.E:
We recommend Kids hiit and Cosmic Yoga workouts available on YouTube to help keep us active.
Hopefully this will be plenty to keep your children busy and active. Newsround has excellent resources if your child is interested in World Events and News at a child’s level.