What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 8.12.25

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are adding two mixed numbers using partitioning and recombining.  We will then move onto subtracting fractions where a denominator is a multiple of the other.  Pictorial representations will be used to support learning. Such as bar models and number lines.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are re-drafting and then writing up our travel articles entitled ‘Come to Belize!’, as the best copy. We will be looking carefully at our next steps and making our writing the very best that it can be!  

For our Whole Class Guided Reading, we are reading Chapters 15, 16 and 17 this week of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. These are the final chapters of our guided reading text. We are explaining how the author, C.S. Lewis makes Chapter 16 uplifting and in the final chapter we will be thinking about why the author may have given Edmund retribution. 

In RE, we are finishing off re-visiting our Big Question ‘Was Jesus the Messiah?’ drawing on the knowledge we have gathered throughout this unit.  What does the Messiah mean?  What examples from the texts that we studied are evidence that Jesus was to be the Messiah?

For Time and Place, we are locating major cities in North and South America and finding out where Belize is in relation to these continents.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are finding out that levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.   We will also learn that if a gear gives you more force, it must give you less speed at the same time.  If it gives you more speed, it has to give you less force. That’s why when you’re going uphill in a low gear, you have to pedal much faster to go the same distance.

In ICT, we are evaluating our film making using digital cameras based on a whole class storyboard we wrote about St Barnabas School.  We will be looking at the different shots we used and how we could improve our videos. In Art, we are using our 2B pencil sketches to create pictures of peppers using felt tip pens based on the work of the artist Yayoi Kusama ‘Pumpkins’.