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.
Welcome back in our first week of the Spring term! The year four team would like to say a huge thank you for all our wonderful Christmas cards and gifts and sincerely hope you have all had an enjoyable couple of weeks.
What are we learning this week?
Maths – Recapping and completing our learning about perimeter and area of rectilinear shapes.
English – We will be using a poem For Forest by Grace Nichols to start our term’s topic on Rainforest and Deforestation,
https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poems/forest
Science – We shall be revising our key facts from our teeth and digestion unit before moving onto Solids, liquids and gases.
Computing – We shall be looking at Online Safety, specifically how to stay safe whilst online gaming.
We will be using the game Band Runner to explore online safety issues to find out more look at the links below.
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/8_10
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/articles/gaming/
Wow! The end of the first term already! It has been such an amazing start to the year and everybody has worked so hard and achieved so much! A break is well deserved!
What we hope to achieve during the last week of term;
English- We will be putting the finishing touches to our robin writing. Click on the link below to watch the clip.
https://www.literacyshed.com/cominghome.html
We have been amazed by the progress made in writing this term, the quality has been amazing and we hope to continue this upward trend next year.
Reading- All children should be reading at home every day during the holidays!
Maths- We are recapping our term’s learning this week.
In addition to this, all children need to be practising the multiplication tables as one of the Year 4 objectives is know the tables and related division facts to 12×12. There will be a weekly test in class.
There is a free interactive game we use often in class as a starter which children can also access at home. Please find the link below;
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Your child has also been given a password to a new times tables speed game which will help them to improve their recall of multiplication and division facts while still having fun.
Homework- Homework will be set on a Friday and should be returned by the following Wednesday each week. The children will be expected to read every day and practise their multiplication tables in addition to other work that is given.There will also be weekly tasks set on Mathletics and Spellodrome. This week, we have given a project which does not need to be handed in until Friday 11th January. Children should research and present their information about how children in another country celebrate Christmas. see below for a copy of the homework.
Other information-
Saturday 15th December is the Christmas Fair, please come and support the school!
Monday 17th December is the final dress rehearsal in St Andrew’s church prior to our performance.
Tuesday 18th December is the Year 3 and 4 Christmas performance in the church at 10am.
Wednesday 19th December is class parties- letter attached below.
Thank you for all your help and support this term. We couldn’t have done it without you. Have a wonderful Christmas break, however you spend it!