What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 23.6.25

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are learning to read and plot coordinates; the x-value must be read first.  Lilac Class will solve problems with coordinates. We will be using given coordinates to work out the missing coordinates.  Lilac Class are also exploring how to translate a shape, starting with translating a single point, then translating using coordinates. We will then be identifying lines of symmetry on shapes (vertical, horizontal, diagonal) using mirrors to help us. 

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our drafting of a 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.  As a class, we discussed the question ‘What should Shackleton and his men do now that the ship is sinking?’  In groups, we acted out this situation and what the men did, e.g. pulling lifeboats across the ice and carrying provisions from the sinking ship.  We will also draw on our ‘Hot Seating’ activity about this situation from the view point of the men and then from the perspective of Ernest Shackleton, their leader. 

For our Guided Reading text, Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill this week, we are reading pages 49-54. Lilac Class are again looking carefully at the illustrations by considering why the boat is so small on the double-page picture and why a map of South Georgia was provided.  Our summarising task is to compare the differences between the two parties’ current situations in less than forty words. 

For RE in Lilac Class, we are studying Zakah and why it is important to Muslims.  Lilac Class will be thinking about generosity.  Who is generous to you and how can being generous make a difference and how does it make you feel? 

For Time and Place in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our work on mountain ranges in India and finding out where they are situated on a map.  We are finding out how different types of mountains are formed and finding out facts about different mountain ranges. For Science in Lilac Class, we are learning about the life cycle of insects and amphibians.  For Design and the Arts, we are planning seascapes using a range of different materials to create a variety of effects and textures.  We will be listening to Arnold Bax’s Symphonic Poem ‘Tintagel’ for inspiration and examining the mixed media design ‘Colourful Fish Swirl’ by the artist Nikki B who lives in Tintagel in Cornwall.

In ICT, we are creating a program that uses selection to produce different conditions.  We are revisiting previous learning on selection and will be identifying how conditions are used to control the flow of actions in a program.  Lilac Class will be using the Scratch programming environment.  In Spanish this week we are revising our 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.