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.
What will we be learning?
Maths-We will be learning about recognising hundreds and tenths and their decimal equivalents.
English-We will be continuing to write our persuasive letters to Croydon council.
Topic-We will be looking at rainforest climates and comparing world biomes.
PSHE-We will be looking at an NSPCC topic around keeping children safe
PE-We will be taking part in gymnastics and circuit training lessons
Important Information
All the children will be taking part in a Cross Country event on Monday 25th March in the morning at Duppas Park. Please can children bring appropriate footwear and tracksuit bottoms as well as wet weather gear as the weather is unpredictable.
Friday 29th March-The children will be encouraged to ‘Wear a Hat’. This will raise funds for a worthy charity that is close to the school’s heart-brain tumour research.
Our Learning in year four this week:
Literacy
We will be looking at writing persuasive letters focusing on formal language, complex sentences and the structure we have boxed up from the persuasive texts we have looked at together.
Maths
We will be studying non-unit fractions, counting in fractions and recognising 10th and 100ths as decimals.
PE
We will will be studying gymnastics and circuit training.
PHSE
In addition to year four’s CUES-ed focus, we will be focusing on safeguarding children using the NSPCC Let’s talk PANTS initiative . Some useful information can be found here https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/.
Science
We will continue to extend our knowledge of Animals including humans classifying vertebrates using branching databases.
Topic
We will continue our rain forest theme with a focus on the plants which grow in the rain forest and how they can be used.
Dates for the Diary:
Thursday 21st and Wednesday 27th March-Parents’ evening will be held in the hall. Appointments have been sent out. Please let us know if you can’t make an appointment on the day.
congratulations to Armaan, Lillian, Richa, Cynde and Magnus from Southwark and Harry, Aryan, Sofia, James and Kerem who all received merit cards this week.