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 16th October 2017

October 15, 2017

Week beginning 16th October 2017.

 

Millennium and Southwark classes had a very successful Viking day on Thursday last week. The children took a lot of pride in their costumes and props and we are very grateful for your support. We were delighted to welcome our visitor Peter Quirk from Viking School visits,  A wonderful and very memorable day was had by all and every child was able to fully access the History curriculum through drama, story telling, artefact handling and fun games.

It was a pleasure meeting some of you on Parents Evening and we look forward to meeting the rest of you this week.

This week we will be focusing on:

In Maths, the children will learn to use negative numbers in context.

In English, we will write an explanation text about Horrid Henry.

In French, we will be continuing our unit on greetings.

Science and R.E will continue to be taught during ppa sessions and focus on Teeth and digestion as well as Judaism.

We would like to congratulate Brayen and Exauce for representing us well during Croydon Cross Country race trials last Thursday. Team Emoji won our marbles competition this week and Anomiga won our Reader of the week cup, Congratulations to you all!

Other news.

Reminder: the children will be going on a trip on Friday  20th October 2017 to Croydon museum. We will be grateful for any parents or carers who could accompany us on this short trip. Please let me know if you can.

 

Southwark News Week Beginning 9th October

October 6, 2017

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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Remember to get dressed up for our fantastic Viking Day this Thursday! Can’t wait![/dropshadowbox]

English- We will be continuing to think about instruction writing which will lead into an explanation text describing how to draw Horrid Henry..

Maths- We are focusing on place value, extending our knowledge to include negative numbers.

Spelling- Our focus this week in class are the prefixes un and im. We will be thinking of as many words as we can such as unkind, impossible and impractical and practising our spelling using methods such as speed spelling and hangman.

Reading- All children read with an adult at least once a week as part of a Guided Reading programme. After this adult led session they complete tasks relating to the text or linked to current English and Spelling focuses. We continue to read stories as a class.

ICT- Our topic for the half term is online safety and we are currently learning about the potential dangers of cyber bullying  and this week’s focus will be what to do if we are unhappy about what someone says to us online.  If you have any concerns or queries about this subject, there are plenty of parent friendly websites to help and advise. I have included an example below.

http://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers

We will be continuing holding an extra ICT session each week to introduce the children to touch typing. If you would like to continue this at home, I have included the link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr

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 playing invasion games and will continue to run the daily mile.

RE- We will be studying Judaism with a focus on Jewish celebrations. This unit will be taught on a Wednesday morning as part of ppa.

Science- Our current Science topic is teeth and digestion. This will also be taught as part of ppa.

Topic- Our topic for this term is Vikings and Anglo Saxons. This will be celebrated during a fantastic day on Thursday which will be off timetable and spent in the company of our Viking visitor-Peter Quirk.

We will be uploading pictures of our day and the fantastic fancy dress worn by your children by the end of this week.

French- We will be revising our conversational skills so far and then moving on to learn the numbers between 20 and 50 and learning vocabulary to describe our families.

Music- We will be learning to sing in Spanish and think about the instruments which are used and using untuned percussion to keep the beat.

Homework- Homework is given out on a Friday and should be returned by the following Friday.

 

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Key information – 11th and 19th October 2017 – Parents’ evening Ask your child about our Privilege Cards-once your child has received 5, they will earn a prize[/dropshadowbox]

 

Class Successes-This week’s readers of the week go to Adrian and Anomiga who earned an impressive 14 marbles each for their home reading. Well done you two!