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 to our Southwark class blog. Thank you for all your support during our first week back at term. We have had some fantastic bridge homework brought in and it is lovely to see all children in school with an excellent attitude to their learning. It’s also very encouraging to see so many of the class reading every day at home. Please can I ask you to sign your child’s homework diary which is sent home every night to show that they are reading with a short comment as follows:
Read pages 12-24 enjoying the book and showing good understanding when I ask questions plus signature.
This will earn your child team points-marbles and also helps them keep track where they are with a book. Please come and speak to me after school any day if you would like some help with helping your child read at home. Your child will need to bring their homework diary to school every day as we will find every opportunity to read with them. They can change their books during early morning work each day and whilst your child will be encouraged to choice their book independently, they will be guided to which books are suited to their current level.
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English-We will be continuing our returning to school unit which you can access at the link below, writing in role as Nemo or his father, Marlin to further our understanding of character and inferring meaning using evidence from a video text.
https://www.literacyshed.com/the-thinking-shed.html
Our class read will be The Creakers by Tom Fletcher. If you would like to read along with us the book can be purchased at the link below:
Guided Reading groups will start this week. Your child will read twice with an adult in a guided focus group in additional to their daily English lessons and do targeted comprehension and writing tasks to complement their guided reading.
Maths-
We will be continuing our place value to four digits work by recognising and representing both 3 and 4 digit numbers in different ways, counting forward and backwards in thousands and finding a thousand more and a thousand less than a given number. We will be continuing to develop your child’s numeracy with our fluency, reasoning and problem solving approach and the use of higher order thinking questioning.
A useful website we regularly use to practise key learning is:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Science-We will be beginning a topic on teeth and the digestive system.
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Homework will be sent home next Friday (14th September) due in by the following Friday.
Congratulations to Team Mega stars who earned more than 90 marbles in their first 3 days back at school. Well done to Leen, Marquez, Josiah, Evie, Amna and Lucas!
As you know, our topic for this term is called ”Temples, Tombs and Treasures’ linked to our HISTORY curriculum about Ancient Egypt.
Your child has taken home a homework sheet to cover the homework for the whole half term. Please choose another activity to complete for homework this week. We have had some fantastic work so far! I have attached an electronic copy of the homework below in case the paper copy is lost Homework-Egyptians
In English, we will continue developing our narrative writing with a short film called Origins; The Story of a Lone Robot in order to develop show not tell methods of writing. We will then be moving on to some work on playscripts based on a story called Jimmy and the Pharaoh.
In Maths, we will be continuing to look at formal written methods for multiplication and division, so it would be helpful for children to continue to practise their multiplication tables and related division facts. Please encourage your child to use Mathletics to revise these skills.
I have also asked children who are not yet able to tell the time to 1 minute intervals (including digital, analogue and 24 hour time) and to recognise all amounts of British coins and note variations to practise these in a practical context at home, for when we revisit these units.
The following website is useful but the most effective practise is practically using these skill in your child’s daily life e.g. counting change, counting how many minutes until bed time or what time they leave and return from the park.
P.E will continue to be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, please ensure your child has their kit for every lesson. In addition to this we will continue to run the Daily Mile to help promote the fitness of our children.
As I’m sure you all know, reading daily is essential in helping your child progress with reading and writing. Please enjoy reading a range of fun books as well as your child’s school reading books to promote a love for reading. Please remember to write a comment or sign your child’s reading record regularly. Remember that your child can keep a book for as long as they need in order to finish it. We appreciate your support to enable your child to be a fluent and competent reader.
In Science, children will begin a unit on Electricity.
Additional information-
Congratulations go to our Readers of the week from the week before half term-Jaida, Anomiga, Ciaran, Limar and Ayan as well as this week’s Azain, Limar ,Anomiga and Stefan.
Merit cards were also given to Harley, Charlie, Tyler and the whole class for their fantastic behaviour and enthusiasm for sports day yesterday.
Miss Danzey will be starting 2 after school clubs next week, teaching the children a little Latin or Ancient Greek. If you are interested in your child taking part, please let me know and I will give you a letter.
I look forward to seeing you all at next weekend’s Friends of Howard Summer Fair and thank you all for your donations of bottles for the bottle stall.