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.
Our Learning this week
In English, we will continue developing our narrative writing with our text The Firemaker’s Daughter by Phillip Pullman. Next week we will be planning and writing our own sections of the story in the suspense style.
In Maths, we are continuing our work on decimals applying our learning to estimating, comparing and calculating with numbers to two decimal points in the context of money and measuring.
Southwark class have been given a topic homework this week, Please choose an activity from our termly topic homework to complete and hand in by Friday 18th May.
In P.E sessions, we will be continuing athletics and a dance/aerobics unit. 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.
Well done to all children who were awarded a merit card this week, Tyler, Adrian B, Tyray and Emmanuel who were awarded the rare privilege cards for their outstanding commitment to following our school ethos-the 5 cs-Commitment,Care, Courtesy,Consideration and Cooperation.
Well done to our many readers of the week this week Daniel and Abi. a special mentions needs also to go to -Vishal. Azain, ,Anomiga, Limar, Jaida, Roshan, Adrian B and Olivia. These children read on a daily basis at home and are making excellent progress with their reading as well as their writing as a result. 
Don’t forget that we will be celebrating the royal wedding next Friday by having a non uniform day where all children can wear red, white and blue. 
Week beginning 8th May 2018.
In Maths this week, we will complete our work on decimals- ordering numbers with tenths and hundredths as well as finding the effect of dividing 1 and 2 digit numbers by 10 and 100. This week’s homework is set on Mathletics and your child’s password and user name can be found in their homework diary.
In English, we will be beginning to plan and write our suspense story based on the adventures of our main character Lila from The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Phillip Pullman.
In Topic, we will learn about Ancient Egyptian mummification and the afterlife and will begin our cross curricular design and technology lessons. In groups, we will be designing and making a structure designed to protect an Egyptian mummy from rain and buried in sand for thousands of years (over a weekend) We will be exploring how different joining and construction methods help to give strength to the structure. For this topic we will be using wood. If you have any left over small pieces of wood that you would be willing to donate we would very much appreciate it.
Thank you for your continued support.
Congratulations this week go to Harley, Tyray, Adrian B and the whole class for achieving merit cards as well as to our readers of the week-Anomiga and Limar.