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 29th January 2018

January 28, 2018

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LITERACY:

The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about how to read a story as a reader and then as a writer this week and have been working on collecting our ‘ingredients’ for a great story in year four. This week we will be using these ‘ingredients’ to write our own class texts of the Great Kapok Tree.

If you would like to talk to your child about this story or indeed another story by Lynn Cherry we have started reading please see the links below.

MATHS:

 

We will be continuing our Multiplication and division unit. Having focused on the 6,7 and 9 times tables last week, we are now moving on to 11 and 12 times tables, multiplying 3 single digit numbers and then factor pairs. 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.

This week’s homework: Due in Friday, 2nd February 2018. We were very fortunately to have an interesting visitor-Tim Rodgers-come to speak to year 4 last week to teach the children about internet safety. This week I would like you to write a letter to Tim sharing all the information you have learnt. In addition, bonus marbles will be given for those children continuing to support their Maths work on Mathletics. Children’s passwords and user names remain the same as in year 3 and have been attached to your child’s  homework.

IMPORTANT DATES:

5th – 9th February 2018 – Online safety week

9th February 2018 – Last day of Spring 1 term

19th February 2018 – Children return to school for Spring 2 term

Congratulations to Roshan, Ayan and Aella who all received merit cards this week.

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Southwark News Week Beginning 15th January 2018

January 12, 2018

In Southwark Class our learning next week will be as follows;

  • In Maths we will be consolidating our learning of multiplying by ten and hundred and then moving on to dividing by 10 and 100. Current Maths guidance emphasises the importance of children recognising x10 as making the total ten times larger and x100 as making the total one hundred times larger. Please can you remind your child of this and the fact that whilst in most cases it does look like you just need to add or subtract 0 or 00 that this isn’t the case. This will help your child immensely as they begin multiplying and dividing decimals later this term.   Please come and chat to me if you need any support explaining this to your child.  We have been learning that when you calculate 6×100, each of the ones becomes 100 times bigger. 
  • In English we will be learning the pattern of story The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry off by heart with actions internalising the writer’s language. We will then be retelling the story with drama and writing a story map to track the structure of the story. If you would like to share this story at home with your child you can watch the full story on the link below.
  • In Topic time we will learn about the valuable resources which come from Rain forests.
  • In RE we will be continuing our learning about Sikhism during ppa time.
  • In French we will be beginning to learn the days of the week in order to work towards being able to say the date in French. We will also continue to revise numbers to 50 and the link below can support your child learn these numbers.

    Successes this Week

  • Thank you for your continued support with your child’s reading at home. A much improved 24 out of 28 children read often at home this week.
  • Vishal, Olivia, Joshua and Fawwaz all received merit cards this week. Well done!
  • Anomiga is yet again our reader of the week. Well done Anomiga!