What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 22.9.25

This week is Baseline Assessment week and this may affect some of our coverage. 

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000.  We will be considering which place value column we should look at to round the number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000.  Lilac Class are then moving onto rounding numbers within 1,000,000.

In English this week, we are levelling up and improving our Space Poems inspired by the work of Pie Corbett. We are checking that we have examples of features of poetry writing such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia and personification in our poems.

For our Whole Class Guided Reading text,  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis  we are reading Chapter Four this week.  Lilac Class are focusing on their inference skills, looking beyond the actual text and thinking about why the Queen believes Edmund is an idiot and why she wants him to bring his siblings.  We are also exploring why Edmund does not want to go and get his siblings and bring them to the Queen. 

In RE this week, Father John will be leading a session on what the Bible says about God.  Lilac Class are exploring in depth texts from the Bible (A Psalm of David, Isaiah 6:1-6 and John 4:7-12) focusing on key vocabulary.  We will be thinking about what specific parts of the texts mean and are telling us about God. 

For our Time and Place, we are examining a timeline of the Ancient Mayan Civilisation dating from 5,000BC to 900AD. We will be learning about the developments that took place starting from the Mayans being hunter-gatherers in the rainforests and volcanic mountains, through to their development of writing and then to the decline of their major cities.  

For ICT, we are experimenting with search engines and making use of a web search to find specific information.  We will be comparing results from different search engines and be able to explain why we should search for trustworthy websites and not share any personal information online. 

For Science in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our work on Geocentric and Heliocentric theories.  What are these models, and why are they different?  We will be exploring how scientific thinking has changed over the centuries.  We will then be describing the movement of the planets relative to the Sun.  Lilac Class are finding out what planets are in the Solar System, how large they are and their position in relation to the Sun.  In Music, we will be listening to ‘Mars’ and ‘Venus’ from Gustav Holst’s The Planets Suite.  Lilac Class will be thinking about the different dynamics and instruments that are used and how they convey the meaning of the music.  We will also be using graphic notation to record musical ideas.