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.
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- In Mathematics we will look at efficient methods for multiplying 2 digit numbers by a 1 digit number as well as beginning to look at measuring area and coordinates.
- In English we will introduce a new genre- persuasive letter writing. We will be discovering the ingredients which make a successfully persuasive letter and pulling apart a model letter in preparation for innovating our own letters based around saving our rain forest.
- In Science we will learn about Sound during ppa with Ms Siames.
- In Topic time we will learn about the effect deforestation has on the peoples who live in the rain forest.
- During P.E lessons we shall continue our gymnastics unit, linking tuck,pike and straddle jumps with balances and travelling.
- During French lessons we will continue our work on the date. Now that we know the months of the year and numbers to 31 we will be learning the days of the week.
Thank you to all the children who brought sponsorship money for the NSPCC into school. If you have outstanding money it is not too late to bring it into school. Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed our sport and multiplication treasure hunt.
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It will shortly be parent’s evening on the 1st or 14th March. I look forward to sharing your child’s progress over the last term of year 4 with you. In addition, we would like to invite you to come in to school to watch our class assembly at 9.10am on Monday 5th March. We will be performing a short play based around the book-The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry to share our learning about saving the rain forest. Hopefully you will be able to join us when we perform our assembly to the key stage. [/dropshadowbox]
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LITERACY:
The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning our topic this term. This week we will be continuing on our rain forest cross curricular theme by looking in depth at a poem by the poet Grace Nicols.
If you would like to talk to your child about this poem please see the link belowhttps://www.clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poets/nichols-grace
MATHS:
We will be continuing our Multiplication and division unit. Having focused on the 11, 12 times tables last week, multiplying 3 single digit numbers, we will be moving on to factor pair and multiples of numbers. There are many good websites to support your child’s learning in Maths such as Topmarks. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/multiplication-and-division
We will be continuing our Rain forest topic alongside our Science, R.E, P.S.H.E, French and I.C.T learning this week. In particular we will be focusing on dealing with unhelpful pressure and know some techniques to deal with this as well as knowing the importance of talking to a trusted adult when they need to.
This week’s homework:
This week’s homework will be set activities onMathletics. Children’s passwords and user names remain the same as in year 3 and have been attached to your child’s homework diary. Please let us know if your child does not have access to a computer as we can arrange for them to do it in school.
IMPORTANT DATES:
5th – 9th February 2018 – Online safety week. our sponsered Treasure Hunt will take on Tuesday or Thursday, weather dependent.
9th February-Last date for NSPC sponsor form due in. Don’t forget the class with the most forms wins a prize!
9th February 2018 – Last day of Spring 1 term
19th February 2018 – Children return to school for Spring 2 term
Congratulations to Ayan,Tyler and Tyray who all received merit cards this week. Anomiga is our class reader of the week. a warm welcome to Jasmine who has joined us from West Thorton.
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