What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 14.7.25

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are exploring efficient strategies for adding and subtracting decimals.  When would you use a mental method?  When would you use an informal jotting such as a number line? We are then sequencing decimals, combining our knowledge of number sequences and decimals.  We will be looking for patterns and using and finding a rule that involves adding and subtracting a decimal each time. This will be followed by us multiplying and diving decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are writing a final ‘best’ copy of our dual narrative based on our reading of our supplementary text Ice Trap!  Shackleton’s Incredible Expedition by Meredith Hooper.  The part of the text we are focusing on is where Endurance is trapped in the ice and is sinking. 

In our guided reading sessions Lilac Class will be reading books from our Reading Curriculum, for example, The Window by Jeannie Baker and Flotsam by David Wiesner, as well as Everest about Edmund Hilary by Alexandra Stewart and Joe Todd-Stanton.  For RE in Lilac Class, we are learning about the Qur’an and why it is important to Muslims and making connections between what is written in the Qur’an and how we should live our lives.  For example, ‘Be kind to your parents, especially when they are old’, ‘Always keep promises’ and ‘Be honest day by day’. For Time and Place in Lilac Class, we are finding out about different natural resources in India. We will be thinking about what natural resources are and why India was colonised by the British in 1858.

In Science, we are learning about the work of the famous naturalists Jane Goodhall and Sir David Attenborough and the contributions they have made to knowledge. For Design and the Arts, we are finishing off our seascapes using a range of different materials to create a variety of effects and textures. 

In ICT, we are designing and evaluating a quiz using a design format.  Lilac Class will be using the Scratch programming environment. In Spanish this week we are continuing our revision of greetings in Spanish and learning to write in Spanish the following: Hello, Goodbye, What is your name? Good morning, See you later, My name is …, Good night, See you tomorrow, How old are you? and I am …years old. 

There will be no homework set this week however, please check that your child has completed reading the e-book Dark Water.  There is also the Summer Reading Challenge being held again this year at the Tunbridge Wells Library in the Amelia Scott Centre.