What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 23.2.26

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are calculating a fraction of a quantity identifying the relationship between dividing by a denominator and multiplying by a numerator, focusing on pictorial representations to support learning. We are then finding the whole and using fractions as operators, recognising the connection between finding a fraction of an amount and multiplying a fraction by an integer.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our planning of a narrative poem about life in the workhouse. We will be using our Street Child text, other texts, BBC documentaries and photographs for stimuli and ideas. We will then be drafting our poems written in the first person from the perspective of someone who is living in a workhouse during the Victorian period. Lilac Class be using features of poetry writing such as onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors, expanded noun phrases and personification. 

For Whole Class Guided Reading, Lilac Class are reading Chapters 11 and 12 of Berlie Doherty’s Street Child entitled ‘Shrimps’ and ‘The Spitting Crow’. Examples of our inference questions, where we read between the lines are: ‘Can you find evidence that suggests Jim was scared of the grandmother?’ and ‘Why do you think the boys ran away as soon as Jim tried to join in?’  We will also be developing our summarising skills, drawing on key events and also sequencing events

For RE in Lilac Class, we are starting our new unit of learning entitled ‘Salvation’.  This week we are answering our Big Question ‘What did Jesus do to save human beings?’ as formative assessment. 

For Time and Place, Lilac Class are finding out about what the main inventions of the Victorian period were and how they have shaped our lives today.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are finding out what conditions cause more solid to dissolve.  Our questions we are exploring are ‘How does the temperature of the water affect the amount of solid that dissolves in water?’ and ‘How does stirring the water affect the amount of solid that dissolves in water?’ In ICT, we are starting our new unit of learning entitled ‘Flat Files’.  We will be explaining how information can be recorded and ordering, sorting and grouping our data cards. 

In French, Lilac Class are learning words that you need when shopping.  Lilac Class are designing shopping lists – what they want to buy and how many Euros the items on their shopping lists will cost. In pairs using French vocabulary, one child is the shopkeeper and the other is the customer. We will also be learning words for different French food and designing our own French menus.

For Design and the Arts, we are starting to learn about William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement.  We will be creating wallpaper using polyprint tiles based on the designs of William Morris.  This week we are designing a repeated pattern based on the theme of nature. 

For Homework this week, I would like your child to complete any activity on the Wider Learning Curriculum Matrix.  Outstanding efforts will be put on our class blog!

If you have not already done so, please make sure you have purchased your tickets for the Tunbridge Wells Singing Festival on Tuesday 3^rd March at the Assembly Halls.  Here is the link:

https://www.assemblyhalltheatre.co.uk/whats-on/