What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 15.12.25

This week we are finishing off our units of work and involved in our Christmas activities.  Not only will Lilac Class be busy practising and performing in the Key Stage 2 Carol Concert, we will also be carol singing at the Tunbridge Wells Care Home.

For 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 finishing our best copies of our travel articles entitled ‘Come to Belize!’. For our Whole Class Guided Reading we are examining Chapter 17 this week of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This is the final chapter of our guided reading text. We are explaining how the author, C.S. Lewis makes Chapter 16 uplifting and in the final Chapter, considering why the author may have given Edmund retribution. 

In ICT, we are finishing off our evaluations of 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.  We will then complete an assessment of this unit.

For Time and Place, we are finishing off our map work 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 learning about levers, pulleys and gears; these forces allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.  

There will be no homework for the Christmas Holiday.  However, there will be our e-book Planet Earth on Purple Mash to read.  I will also attach our Wider Curriculum Learning Matrix with optional activities that your child might want to do over the holiday. Merry Christmas to you all!