Year 3/4 (Water Class)

Welcome to Water Class!

2025-26

If you need to get in contact with me as class teacher, please use our class email address: water@gkglt.co.uk

You can expect a response within 2 working days during term time.

Welcome to Spring 1, 2026!

During this half term, we will be…

• Reading and writing adventure stories and explanation texts in English.
• Both year groups will be looking at multiplication and division in Maths.
• Exploring rocks and soils in Science.
• Discovering the Anglo-Saxons in Britain in History.
• Learning about abstract shape to make a sculpture in Art.
• Discussing safety and wellbeing in Learning for Life.
• Understanding more about prayer in Christianity in Religion and Worldviews.
• Develop skills linked to swimming and gymnastics in PE.
• Building websites in Computing.
• Learning French adjectives to describe colour, size and shape in French.

Key Information

Sports:

• PE is every Monday afternoon.
• Swimming is every Thursday morning, starting back on Thursday 8th January 2026!

Weekly Home learning:

• Children should read every day. This should be aloud to an adult at home minimum three times a week.
• Spelling tests are every Monday. Children are also expected to complete 7 assignments a week on EdShed. A list of the spellings for this half-term can be found below.
• Maths homework is handed out every Friday and due in the following Friday.

Copies can be found below in the Maths homework section and are uploaded weekly.

Other home learning

• Times Table Rock Stars is also available for your children to play whenever they like.
• Duolingo is also available for the children to practise their French skills at home.

Other:

• Our Smokey Row day is Wednesday. In KS2, we aim to visit every other week (weather and adult ratio-dependent). Our visits for Spring term are: 7th January, 21st January, 4th February, 25th February, 11th March and 25th March.

If you have any questions for me, please feel free to send me an email as noted at the top, or can always catch me at pickup of course.

Best wishes,
Miss Butler