What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 3.3.25

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are finding equivalent fractions and decimals (tenths and hundredths) using counters, bead strings and number lines to support learning.  We will then be looking at equivalent fractions and decimals, specifically focusing on halves, quarters, fifths and tenths. We will also be identifying thousandths as fractions and decimals. Lilac Class will then move onto ordering and comparing decimals with the same number of decimal places, using place value charts and counters and number lines to develop learning. 

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are reading and analysing poems about the Victorian workhouse.  What features of poetry writing have been used and why are they effective?  We will then be writing our own narrative poems, drawing on our annotations of workhouse photographs and texts that we have been doing over the last couple of weeks in preparation for our poetry writing.

For Whole Class Guided Reading, Lilac Class are reading Chapters 13 and 14 of Berlie Doherty’s Street Child entitled ‘The Lily’ and ‘The Waterman’s Arms’. We are finding evidence in the text that shows us that Jim was scared of Grimy Nick and explains why Jim has no control over his life and the decisions he makes. 

For RE in Lilac Class, we are examining the events leading up to Jesus’s resurrection in the Gospels.  We will be discussing the events that we feel were most important to us and annotating texts. For Time and Place, we are drawing on what we have been finding out about the main inventions of the Victorian period and thinking about how they have shaped our lives today.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are exploring what conditions cause more solid to dissolve.  Our questions we are investigating are ‘How does the temperature of the water affect the amount of solid that dissolves in water?’ and ‘How does stirring the water affect the amount of solid that dissolves in water?’ In ICT, we are comparing paper and computer-based databases.  Lilac Class will be explaining what a field and a record is in a database and navigating a flat-file database to compare different views of information.  We will be choosing which field to sort data by to answer a given question. 

This term, the Modern Foreign Language (MFL) we are learning is Spanish. This week we will be learning phrases to create conversations and completing a cartoon strip with speech bubbles filling in what each character could say to one another in Spanish.

For Design and the Arts, we are completing our wallpaper designs inspired by William Morris and will then start to engrave our designs onto a polyprint tile that will be used as a printing block.  Lilac Class will then be ready to print wallpaper.