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 are we learning this week
Maths – This week, we will be learning to multiply and dividing by 6, 7 and 9. Please remember that all multiplication and division facts to 12×12 need to be learnt off by heart by the end of year 4 to achieve expected standard in Maths.
English –This week we will be using a video text to inspire our writing. Please see below:
https://www.literacyshed.com/cominghome.html
Miss Symes will continue to work on spellings with the class on Thursday mornings. Please use this website to consolidate learning of /shun/ words.
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zyv4qhv
Topic – We will be returning to our Vikings topic- learning about Viking beliefs and gods.
I.C.T-We will be continuing to develop our PowerPoint presentation skills by including animation and transition between slides.
Important information
The Christmas Fair will be on the 15th December. 
What are we learning this week
Maths – This week, we will be multiply and dividing by 10 and 100 and understanding that this is the same as a number getting 10 and 100 times bigger or smaller and not just adding or taking away a 0 or 00 to a number. This is essential understanding for our upcoming work on decimals. Children have been given a username and password stuck in their homework diaries to a new free maths programme we will be trialling to support your child’s knowledge and understanding of the key year 4 objective-multiplication and division facts to 12×12 this week called J2blast.
Children have been using the following game in class to revise their mental subtraction.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids
English –After the success of our written explanation texts-How to Draw Horrid Henry, children will be researching an preparing to present their own how to… explanation scripts.
Topic – We will be returning to our topic-Anglo-Saxons and Vikings looking at religion and beliefs in this period.
I.C.T-We will be continuing to develop our PowerPoint presentation skills by including animation between slides.
Congratulations go to team Fireworks with an amazing 250 marbles this week and to Solly, Junaid and Daisy who all received merits this week. Evie is our reader of the week, well done! The whole year group behaved impeccably during our trip to the cinema this week and we would like to say thank you to the parents who came along with us.
Dates for the diary
Saturday 15th December-Christmas Fair