What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 17.11.25

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we will be finding fractions equivalent to a unit fraction and a non-unit fraction.  We will then be moving onto recognising equivalent fractions using our knowledge of common factors and multiples to establish whether fractions are equivalent.  We are also exploring the multiplicative relationship between the numerator and the denominator.  Lilac Class will then start to learn about converting improper fractions to mixed numbers using objects and diagrams to support our learning.

In English this week in Lilac Class we are levelling up and improving our non-chronological report about the different layers of a tropical rainforest using the features of report writing.  Our reports will inform the reader about how rainforests are structured and what groups of animals live in the different layers. For our Whole Class Guided Reading text, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, we are reading Chapter 11 this week.  We will again be developing our inference skills by answering such questions as ‘Why does the Queen agree to give Edmund some food?’ and ‘Why is the Queen furious at the mention of Father Christmas?’  We will also be exploring the intention of the author by explaining how C.S Lewis switches from Winter to Spring and the effect this has on the reader. 

In RE, we are considering what a Messiah would think of our world today.  If God sent another messenger to Earth today, what would he say about our world and how would our world respond to him?

In Time and Place, we are continuing with our work about the beliefs of the Ancient Mayan Civilisation.  This week Lilac Class are learning about the Mayan Creation Story and why maize was so important to the Ancient Mayan Civilisation.

For Science in Lilac Class, we are identifying the different types of forces acting on an object, such as water, air resistance, buoyancy and friction.  In ICT, Lilac Class will create a storyboard to explore a variety of filming techniques.  We will be deciding which filming techniques to use and how to create and save video content on a digital camera.

In Art, we  will be painting our Mayan pottery using fine brushes and only the colours that the Ancient Mayans used, working from our sketches based on original Mayan artefacts.