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.
In Southwark Class this week our learning will be as follows;
- In Mathematics we will be working on finding the perimeter of a shape using a grid to help as well as finding the perimeter of a rectangle or rectilinear shape by measuring or using already known information. We will be returning to our mental maths work and will be aiming to achieve our 100 and 144 club certificates by demonstrating we know all the multiplication and division facts to 12×12(A key objective in year 4).
- In English, we are focusing on telling stories from different viewpoints using the advert and short story Coming Home as our inspiration. We will be beginning a new book-The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
- In reading we will be reading regularly in small guided groups and doing follow up and preparation activities to support progression with reading comprehension.
- In topic time we have just started to enjoy learning about the rain forest. This week we will be focusing on identifying the location of the world’s rain forests and discovering more about the animals living in the different layers of the rain forest.
The children have settled back into class really well following their Christmas break and they are enjoying our new topics. Thank you for your continued support with homework and reading at home. Thank you also for the generous Christmas gifts and thoughtful cards.
Successes-
This week team Emoji achieved an impressive 56 marbles. Well done-Tyler. Kiana,Vishal and Ciaran.
We have 3 readers of the week-Ciaran, Adrian and Kiana. 
Daniel achieved a merit card for putting extra effort into learning his key words and reading regularly at home. Well done Daniel!
This is the last week of school before we break up on Wednesday 20th for Christmas and there are lots of different activities going on in school.
There will still be plenty of opportunities for learning to continue in amongst everything else.
Maths-We will be looking ahead towards our next term’s learning about multiplication and division.
English-Writing–We will be continuing our reviews following our successful visit to the Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomine last week.
Reading-We will be beginning our new class text-The Ice Palace by Robert Swindells.
The children will be set homework to complete over the holiday so please make sure they complete a little bit each night otherwise they will have a lot to do if they leave it to the night before we come back to school.
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Thank you to all of those who came and supported the Christmas Fayre on Saturday. It was a great success as ever.
Congratulations to all Year 4 who received a merit card this week for their outstanding behaviour, yet again, during our trip. In addition, congratulations go to Limar, Kiana,Vishal, Charlie and Ayan this week who all gained merit cards for their fantastic writing. Well done also to Stefan who is our reader of the week.
Monday 18th-Year 3,4&5-Carol concert in St Andrew’s church-limited space is available but parents will be welcome from 2pm.
Tuesday 19th-Class parties in the afternoon. Children can wear their own clothes this day. Please make sure they bring a small donation of food for the party.
Wednesday 20th-Last day of term. Attendance assembly. School finishes at 3.30pm. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
School starts back again on Wednesday 3rd December at 8.50am