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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Maths-We will be learning about kilometres and perimeter.
English- This week we will be studying the poem Jack and the Beanstalk from Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes.
Science-We will be studying materials
P.E-There are still two p.e lessons this term and your child will need jogging bottoms and a long sleeve top for our Quick Cricket tournament.
R.E-We will be continuing our work on Discrimination with Ms Symes..
Important Dates
Please remember the Christmas Fair is on Saturday 9th December. It would be great if you could support the school by coming.
Friday 15th December-Christmas lunch and Christmas Jumper day.
Monday 18th December 2017- pm Christmas performance at St Peter’s church.
Tuesday 19th December-Class Parties are in the afternoon. Please look out for a letter that your child will be taking home over the next few days. Southwark please bring sweet treats and Millennium savoury.
Wednesday 20th December-Last day of term!!
Congratulations to all those who received a merit card this week Tyray and Julia. Keep up the hard work.
Congratulations also to Harley and Daniel who are our class readers of the week.
Here is a breakdown of what we will be looking at over the coming week:
English- We will be finishing our enjoyable unit of work about Robin Hood, by writing and editing our own versions of the Robin Hood legend ‘The Golden Arrow’ this week. As well as focusing on fronted adverbial phrases in grammar and apostrophes for possession.
Maths- We are continuing a unit of work on measure,
Spelling- Our focus this week in class is the suffixes tion, ssion and sion. We are investigating words which use these suffixes and finding patterns to help us remember which suffix to use when spelling.
ICT- We are still holding an extra ICT session each week to introduce the children to touch typing. This a free to use course and is accessible to everyone. If you would like to continue this at home, I have included the link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr
Our ICT topic this half term is software developing, we will be designing a Maths game on Scratch. The class are having great success with this and I must congratulate Azain, Vishal and Adrian for the impressive leadership skills they are demonstrating during this coding lessons. Thank you!
PE- PE lessons are on Tuesdays and Thursdays and children will need their PE kits. I would also like to remind you that the school policy is that all earrings should be removed, hair should be tied back and tights should be removed when getting changed. I would also ask that PE kits stay in school between Monday and Friday as occasionally we are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take part in additional activities. This half term we will be learning Pilates and Quick Cricket and will continue to run the daily mile.
RE- We will be studying a unit of work concerning discrimination. This unit will be taught by Miss Siams on a Wednesday morning.
Topic- Our topic for this term is Vikings and Anglo Saxons. The children will be continuing their research on a particular area of study such as clothes and fashion or homes and food. The children will be making and designing their own game using the fact we have been researching.
French- We will be revising our conversational skills so far as well as learning the numbers between 20 and 50 and learning vocabulary to describe our families.
We are looking forward to our visit to the Pantomime which will take place on Friday 8th December. Unfortunately it is not possible for parents to accompany the class on this occasion as we are limited with tickets. Please look at the link below to find out more about this exciting trip.
In addition, I’m sure you are all excited about the Howard Primary School Christmas Fair which will be between 11am and 3pm on Saturday 9th December. Look forward to seeing you there.