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What we are doing this week in Lilac Class

WB: 15.3.21

I am so impressed with how the children have settled in and with their superb attitude to learning.  It has been so lovely to see how happy they have been to meet their friends again and to be back at school. This week we will start our usual Homework for the week.  It will be on the Lilac Class Blog from Monday 15^th March and hard copies will be stuck in Homework books and given out on Friday 19^th March. Homework will need to be completed by Friday 26^th March. 

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we will continue to consolidate our work using the formal written method for multiplication and division. We will be also using our reasoning skills to solve problems about multiplication and division.

In English, we are finishing off and levelling up our drafts of a non-chronological report about children working during the Victorian era. We are focusing on clearly organising our information using paragraphs and sub-headings as well as including factual and technical language when presenting our information.  In addition to this, we will be studying William Shakespeare’s Macbeth as part of Shakespeare and Story Telling Week. There will be live sessions and lots of drama and creative activities.   

In Guided Reading, we are now reading Chapters 18 and 19 of ‘Street Child’. We will be thinking about what Jim might be feeling and explaining our opinions, giving evidence from the text to support our ideas.  

In RE in Lilac Class we are starting our new unit of learning entitled ‘Salvation’.  Our new Big Question is ‘What did Jesus do to save human beings?’  In addition to answering our big question (as we do at the beginning of each new unit), we will be learning about the Stations of the Cross and examining texts from the Bible, starting from the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane to Jesus rising from the dead.

For our Topic this week, Lilac Class will be finding out how rich and poorer Victorians spent their leisure time and how the development of the railways opened up so many opportunities, improving lives. In DT, we will be continuing with our own Victorian Cookbooks based on the recipes of Mrs Beeton.