What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 26.2.24

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are learning to calculate a fraction of a quantity.  This will focus on concrete and pictorial representations to support learning. Lilac Class will be thinking about how you can represent this multiplication as a bar model.  What happens to the numerator and the denominator?  Lilac Class will then be identifying a fraction of an amount using pictorial and concrete methods. We will then be finding the whole from a unit and non-unit fraction using counters and bar models.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are continuing with planning a narrative poem about life in the workhouse. We will be using our Street Child text, other texts and poems about the workhouse, BBC documentaries and photographs for stimulus and ideas.  We will then be drafting our poems written in the first person from the perspective of someone who is living in the workhouse during the Victorian period.   Lilac Class be using features of poetry writing such as onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors, expanded noun phrases and personification. 

For Whole Class Guided Reading Lilac Class are reading Chapters 11 and 12 of Berlie Doherty’s Street Child entitled ‘Shrimps’ and ‘The Spitting Crow’ Examples of our inference questions, where we read between the lines are: ‘Can you find evidence that suggests Jim was scared of the grandmother?’ and ‘Why do you think the boys ran away as soon as Jim tried to join in?’  We will also be developing our summarising skills drawing on key events and also sequencing events

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 felt were most important to us and annotating texts. 

For Time and Place, Lilac Class are learning about diseases and medical care during the Victorian period and what developments and improvements were made.  What would our health care system be like without the contributions Florence Nightingale made, for example? For Science in Lilac Class, we are finding out what conditions cause more solid to dissolve.  Our questions we are exploring 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?’ For Design and the Arts this week, we are engraving our designs inspired by William Morris onto a polyprint tile and then using this as a printing block.  We will then be ready to print our wallpaper. In Music, we are learning to sing ‘Food, Glorious Food’ from the Musical Oliver!