Welcome to Southwark Bridge Class

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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.

Southwark News Week Beginning 12th November 2018

November 11, 2018

 

A great big thank you to Zoe Henry  from the Theatre Bug Dance Company who taught an exciting street dance class with year 4 on Friday.

What are we learning this week

Maths – This week, we will be learning to multiply by 10 and 100 and understanding that this is the same as a number getting 10 and 100 times bigger and not just adding a 0 or 00 to a number. This is essential understanding for our upcoming work on decimals. Children will be given a username and password 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.

English –This week we will be completing our written explanation texts-How to Draw Horrid Henry by writing a conclusion and self and peer assessing. We will then be amending our writing according to the feedback.

Topic – We will be completing our topic of Remembrance this week by writing poems to reflect our understanding of how children were affected by WWI.

I.C.T-We will be continuing to develop our PowerPoint presentation skills by including animation and transition between slides.

 

Important information

We will be watching Goosebumps at Grants cinema on Wednesday as part of Croydon INTO festival. 

Due to unforeseen circumstances Friday’s additional cinema trip has been cancelled. A letter will be going out to explain further.

Southwark Weekly News Week Beginning 5th November

November 2, 2018

Our Learning This Week:

Maths-We will be subtracting 4 digit numbers including multiple exchanges, learning when or when not to exchange and different ways to use an inverse operation to check an answer.

Literacy-We will be following an explanation video-How to Draw Horrid Henry and recognising the similarities and differences between explanation and instruction writing. Then, we will plan and write our own explanation text.

 

Topic-We will be having a short break from our topic on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings to focus on Remembrance day. Our focus will be learning about the effects of war on those left behind, in particular working children and women.

R.E-We will be continuing our topic on discrimination linking to Black History Month.

I.C.T-We will be focusing on features of PowerPoint presentations and how to improve our presentation techniques.

Other information

Devil Emoji’s group won our marble competition with an impressive 197 marbles this week! Merit cards were given to Junaid, Diego, Nikodem, Oscar, Leen and the whole class. Amna is our reader of the week. Well done!