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.
Thank you to Ranger Russ who had a successful visit with his animal friends.
Our Learning this week:
Maths-We will be learning and reasoning about multiplying and dividing by 11 and 12. We will also multiply 3 numbers and find out what factor pairs are.
English-We will be looking at rain forest themed poems before starting a persuasive writing unit about deforestation.
Geography-We will be learning about the negative and positive impacts of deforestation.
Science-We will be collecting, investigating and classifying animals and plants we find in our school environment.
Our Learning This Week:
Maths-We will be learning to describe movements of coordinates on a grid as translations. We will then be multiplying and dividing by 6 and 9.
There are many online games your child can play to consolidate this learning. We have used these websites in class:
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/469/Coordinates-Alien-Attack
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L350/index.html
English-We will be learning to understand and infer a poet’s motivation using the poem-For forest by Grace Nichols. We will be performing our own version of the poem and exploring our likes and dislikes with poems around the rain forest theme.
https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poems/forest
Topic-We will be looking at the climate in a rain forest.
Science-A part of our Science and Geography topics we will be having an exciting visitor to spend an afternoon or morning with each class. Ranger Russ brings a variety of animals from rain forest habitats to share with the children. For more information see the attached letter which will be going home on Monday.
For more information take a look at Ranger Russ’ website
Dates for the diary:
Parents Evening will take place on Thursday 12th and Tuesday 17th March