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Southwark News Week beginning 27th November
Here is a breakdown of what we will be looking at over the coming week:
English- We will be continuing our unit of work about Robin Hood, reading a version by Marcia Williams alongside the Disney film. We will be acting, planning and beginning to write our own versions of the Robin Hood legend ‘The Golden Arrow’ this week. As well as focusing on fronted adverbial phrases in grammar.
Maths- We are beginning a unit of work on measure, beginning with a recap of Year 3 objectives and thinking about converting units of measure.
Spelling- Our focus this week in class is the suffix sion. We will be thinking of as many words as we can such as mission and practising our spelling using methods such as speed spelling and hangman.[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Reading- All children read with me at least once a week as part of a Guided Reading programme as well as reading with our new class teaching assistant-Mrs Minnaar. After the adult led sessions they complete tasks relating to the text. In addition, some children receive additional one to one reading with an adult. However, I can not emphasis enough the importance of encouraging your child to read independently or to yourself every day as this helps with their learning across the entire curriculum. Your child is led to appropriate books by the adults in class but the expectation is that they choose books themselves and change these books when they need to during early morning work session. If your child is not bringing home challenging enough or too challenging books please speak to them about this and write us a quick message in their reading journals.[/dropshadowbox]
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. This will concentrate on the period between the Viking and Anglo Saxon struggle to control Britain to the time of Edward the Confessor.
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.
PSHE- Our current focus is anti-bullying to coincide with anti-bullying week. We will also be relating this to ideas from the 2 films we viewed this term-Trolls and Ninjago.
Homework- Homework is given out on a Friday and should be returned by the following Friday. In addition to tasks given out I expect the children to read every day and continue to practise the multiplication tables. I will be collecting the reading records in every week to check children are reading and would ask that you initial or sign to show they have read and make any comments you deem necessary, children should also record all independent reading they have done in the book so I am able to see that they are reading regularly. Children should feel free to keep a book for as long as they need to in order to finish reading. If you have any concerns about your child’s book choice, please speak to me or write me a note.
Successes– Well done to Limar, Ciaran, Harley and Tyray who all received merit cards this week!
Well done to Marble group-Team Sport who won this week’s marble competition and to Limar and Stefan for being our Readers of the Week.
Additional information– A big thank you to everyone who contributed to Operation Christmas Child and donated items for our shoe boxes. I was overwhelmed by your generosity!
Week beginning 27th November, 2017
[dropshadowbox align=”center” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Thank you very much to all the parents who attended the SPaG & Handwriting workshop. Your children enjoyed working with you. If you were unable to attend, the presentation as well as handouts have been sent home.[/dropshadowbox]
Congratulations to our Mathletic Award winners…
Silver Awards
Lambeth Class : Tanush, Alexandru, Sheznin
Vauxhall Class : Jacob
Bronze Awards
Lambeth Class : Kayden, Ameliya, Hugh, Patrick, Kamil, Francis, Maxwell, Suden, Rebeka, Martin, Djamal, Shaira, Zofia, Alvin, Zuzanna
Vauxhall Class : Yashal, Mason, Abigail, Nathan. Taliyah, Ethan, Dhiyanesh
Super Mathlete Award goes to …
Lambeth Class : Tanush (4840 Points)
Vauxhall Class : Abigail (3212 Points)
Well done everyone who are completing the weekly Mathletic challenges for homework !!
Thank you very much to everyone who contributed generously to the Shoebox Appeal – Operation Christmas Child. Its much appreciated and the boxes will be collected next Tuesday.
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English
Our featured text is ‘The Lonely Beast’. We will be doing a range of drama and role play activities which will promote talk and enrich children’s vocabulary as well as develop their creative skills. Children will be exploring adjectives as well as prepositions and creating story maps in preparation to write narratives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYxM7JCFpg
Maths
We will be revisiting place value and support children to partition numbers using the ten frame. Please encourage your child to understand the teen numbers by clicking on the link below.
Ten frame – Game
Science
We continue our science topic ‘Sort it out’ which is about materials. Children will be identifying natural and man made materials and sorting them out as well as describing how objects feel – hard , soft, bumpy, rigid, transparent, smooth, waterproof… Why not play a game at home encouraging your child to look at different objects and describing them?
PSHE
We will be looking at people who help us in the community for e.g fireman, police, doctor, nurse, paramedic, builder, teacher etc…
ICT
Please support your child to develop keyboard skills to type their name and write a few sentences – focusing on shift key ( for capital letters), space bar, enter, delete key.
Home work
Homework is sent home every Friday and should be promptly returned every Wednesday. Mathletics homework is also set weekly related to the concepts children are learning. Children can earn bronze, silver and gold certificates as they earn the points. Please check the back of your reading record for your child’s username and password.
Reading is very important and please enjoy reading a range of fun books as well as their reading books to promote a love for reading. Please remember to write a comment or sign your child’s reading record regularly. We appreciate your support to enable your child to be a fluent reader.
Week beginning 20th November 2017.
Week beginning 20th November 2017.
In Maths this week, we are learning to count up and down in tenths, as well as finding and writing fractions of a discreet set of objects.
In English, we will complete film reviews based on the film Trolls which the children watched last week. We will begin a new story Jack and the Beanstalk.
In Science, we will investigate darkness and record our findings.
In History, we will compare research and compare three periods in history.
Important dates
Friday 8th December 2017 Trip to watch a Pantomime Show at Waddon Leisure Centre.
Saturday 9th December 2017. FOH Christmas Fair.
Please support your child with their homework as it helps to consolidate the work covered in school.
We thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Taggart Class Teacher
Mrs Glenn Teaching Assistant
Mrs Tooze. Teaching Assistant
Millennium and Southwark’s Viking Day Thursday 12th October 2017
Southwark News Week beginning 16th October 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.
Week beginning 9th October, 2017
Our children have enjoyed the walk around the local area and a big thank you to all the parents for the continued support. We are continuing to learn about Croydon – transport, parks, libraries, restaurants, shops etc..
English
We have an exciting new text called ‘Lila and the Secret of the rain’. Your children will be able to understand about ‘Journey stories’ as well as develop an understanding of contrasting localities which is linked to our geography topic. They will be able to compare and contrast Croydon (UK) with Kenya focusing on climate, weather conditions, physical (hills, mountains, lakes) and human features ( houses, town, village ).
https://www.slideshare.net/stories4/lila-and-the-secret-of-rain
Maths
Our focus is addition and children need to know their number bonds ( pairs of numbers) of all numbers to 10 and 20. Please support your child to learn how to add using resources at home e.g. spoons, sweets, pasta
RE
We will have a school Assembly to gain an awareness and understanding of the festival of Diwali by a special visitor and children will do fun activities related to it.
Hand writing
Please encourage your child to use joined up handwriting. We are doing the caterpillar letters focusing on the letters c, a o, d, g.
Southwark News Week beginning 25th September 2017
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Writing
We will be continuing our three week unit learning about and writing explanation texts. This week we will be investigating explanation texts and beginning to plan our own around the theme-How to Draw Horrid Henry. In spelling, we will be practising words with the prefix in such as infinite, inedible and indecisive. This poster may be helpful in helping your child learn these words at home. A4 Poster
Reading
We will be continuing our daily guided reading. Every child has a weekly focus session with me and follow up tasks to complete independently which are then reviewed at the beginning of the next teacher led session.
Maths
Our focus this half term is on number and place value. We will be continuing to become fluent with 4 digit numbers with a strong focus on reasoning and explaining our understanding.
I.C.T
In addition to our weekly ICT lessons year 4 will be starting a touch typing course next week. If you would like to continue this work at home the website is free of charge and can be found on the link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr
PE
PE is on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please keep p.e kits at school as we are lucky enough to be able to do additional p.e on occasion and will use p.e shoes for our daily mile. P.E kits will be sent home at half term. Please make sure all items are named including the p.e bag as this helps us prevent items going missing.
RE
We will be looking at Judaism in particular the Jewish celebrations and customs. This will be taught by our PPA teachers on a Wednesday morning.
PSHE
We will be looking at new beginnings and settling in to a new school year.
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Reading books are changed by your child during early morning work at the start of each day. We expect your child to read to you every evening and for this to be recorded in their reading record. You can:
- Just sign or initial.
- Write a comment e.g if the book was challenging, too easy, any particular words your child found difficult to read, any questions that you asked and your child’s response
Children receive a marble (class reward) for each time they read. Well done to Emmanuel who is our reader of the week this week! 
Additional well done to:
Brayen who received a merit card for his outstanding team work in p.e with Mrs Adams. As well as, Aella, Vishal, Jaida, Roshan, Tyler, Limar, Emmanuel and Stefan who all received merit cards for always demonstrating the 5cs and having an excellent start to year 4.
Homework:
Homework will be given out on a Friday afternoon. We expect it to be completed the following Friday. If your child is absent when the homework is given out the are asked to tell myself on my TA Miss Halcomb who will give them a copy on their return. Please let us know via the homework or reading diaries of any problems with completing the homework and we can help them before Friday.
We will be trialling both Spellodrome and Mathletics homework for which you will be sent passwords shortly. If your child does not have access to a computer/ tablet at home, then please let us know.
Week commencing 18th September
What a lovely first week back we have all had! It is wonderful how much hard work children have done over the summer and I can see a huge improvement already in the quality of work as compared to last year. We are all very much in need of a well earned rest, ready for another exciting week!
Here is a breakdown of what we will be looking at over the coming week:
English- We will be looking at examples of instruction writing before writing our own set of instructions which will lead us into a unit exploring explanation texts.
Maths- We are focusing on place value, extending our knowledge to include numbers in the thousands and different ways to represent them and will be will be comparing and ordering numbers to 10,000 and rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000.
Spelling- Our focus this week in class is the aw sound and we have been concentrating on words which use the alternative spellings of au and augh such as daughter, naughty, author and Autumn.
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. 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.
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.
PSHE- This half term we will be thinking about new beginnings and settling into a new school year.
RE- We will be studying Judaism with a focus on Jewish celebrations. This unit will be taught by Mrs Adams on a Wednesday morning.
Science- Our current Science topic is teeth and digestion. This will also be taught by Mrs Adams.
Topic- Our topic for this term is Vikings and Anglo Saxons. This will concentrate on the period between the Viking and Anglo Saxon struggle to control Britain to the time of Edward the Confessor.
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. In addition to tasks given out I expect the children to read every day and continue to practise the multiplication tables. I will be collecting the reading records in every week to check children are reading and would ask that you initial or sign to show they have read and make any comments you deem necessary.
Successes- Well done to AJ, Oliver, Atif, Yuliana and Gabi V who received merit cards this week!
Well done to the red table for getting off to an early start in our table points competition.
Additional information- Once we have access, homework will be set for children on Mathletics and Spellodrome. Please let me know if your child does not have access to a computer or tablet at home.
Look out for a letter about our exciting school trips this term….
Southwark Class Weekly News Week beginning 18th September 2017
It has been an enjoyable week for all in Southwark class this week as we get used to the new expectations and timetable which comes along with a new school year.
This week we will be covering the following learning objectives in:
Writing
We will be beginning a three week unit learning about and writing explanation texts. This week we will be revising instructional writing and comparing it to explanation texts. In spelling, we will be consolidating our learning of spelling words which have the /aw/ sound but are spelt with augh or au such as astronaut, Autumn and daughter. The clip below can help you help you and your child with these words.
Reading
We will be continuing our daily guided reading. Every child has a weekly focus session with me and follow up tasks to complete independently which are then reviewed at the beginning of the next teacher led session.
Maths
Our focus this half term is on number and place value. We will be comparing and ordering 4 digit numbers to 10,000 using representations as proof as well as rounding numbers to 10, 100 and 1000.
I.C.T
As you may have noticed from our homework this week our I.C.T topic is mobile phone and internet safety. This week we will be focusing on cyber-bullying and what to do if you receive unwanted and inappropriate text or chat messages. There are many good parent websites on this topic such as the one below to help start conversations with your child about this topic:
http://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers
PE
PE is on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please keep p.e kits at school as we are lucky enough to be able to do additional p.e on occasion. This week we joined in with a live broadcast from Body Coach Jo Wick (see above) P.E kits will be sent home at half term.
RE
We will be looking at Judaism in particular the Jewish celebrations and customs. This will be taught by our PPA teachers on a Wednesday morning.
PSHE
We will be looking at new beginnings and settling in to a new school year.
Key information
Reading books are changed by your child during early morning work at the start of each day. We expect your child to read to you every evening and for this to be recorded in their reading record. You can:
- Just sign or initial.
- Write a comment e.g if the book was challenging, too easy, any particular words your child found difficult to read, any questions that you asked and your child’s response
Children receive a marble (class reward) for each time they read. Well done to Aljmetin who is our reader of the week this week!
Homework:
Homework will be given out on a Friday afternoon. We expect it to be completed the following Friday. If your child is absent when the homework is given out the are asked to tell myself on my TA Miss Halcomb who will give them a copy on their return. Please let us know via the homework or reading diaries of any problems with completing the homework and we can help them before Friday.
We will be trialling both Spellodrome and Mathletics homework for which you will be sent passwords shortly. If your child does not have access to a computer/ tablet at home, then please let us know.
Trips
There are lots of exciting trips coming up this term. A letter will be sent home by Friday 22nd September with further details.
Week beginning 18th September 2017
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Maths-We will be ordering, comparing and rounding numbers up to 10,000,000
English-We will be continuing to look at the book Holes by Louis Sachar as well as poetry with Mrs Pearce.
Science-We will be studying Light with Mrs Adams
P.E-We will be going swimming this week with Miss Handley and Mrs Swift. Please remember swimming costumes and towels!
Our second PE lesson will be helping us to develop our basketball skills and playing small sided games.
Topic-The topic for this term is World War 2. This will continue throughout the Autumn term by Mrs Adams.
R.E-We will be starting our work on Buddhism with Mrs Adams.
Computing-We will be learning how to create our own APP with Mr Govinden.
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Congratulations to Satrina and the entire class who were awarded a Merit card last week for their great attitude towards their work this week.
Thank you to all the parents who came to the Year 6 meeting last Monday. We hope you found it useful
Don’t forget to register on the Class Dojo website to see how well your child has been working in class.