What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 23.3.26

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are rounding to 1 decimal place, working out which number with 1 decimal place is closer.  When rounding to 1 decimal place, if the digit in the hundredths column is 5, we will be learning that the number rounds to the greater of the two numbers with 1 decimal place.  We will then be moving onto understanding percentages using a hundred square, Rekenreks and 100-bead strings to represent and explore the concept.

For Whole Class Guided Reading, Lilac Class are reading Chapters 19-22 of Berlie Doherty’s Street Child.  We will be exploring how Jim felt when he left Nick and Snipe after the coal fell on them and how his life changed when he reached the green caravan. 

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are drafting a historical report about being a pupil during the Victorian period.  As a class we have read You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Victorian Schoolchild! Lessons you’d rather not learn by John Malam. This text will serve as a basis for a historical report about Victorian education.

For RE in Lilac Class, we are considering who was responsible for Jesus’s death.  Lilac Class are completing a ‘Responsibility Pie’. Shading in slices of the pie-chart according to how much responsibility we think each person/group had.  The pie-charts slices will be colour-coded matched to a description of who is responsible, to what extent and why.  Father John is coming in to talk to us about his trip to Viadolorosa.  This is a place in Jerusalem that shows the route that Jesus took on his way to be crucified on the cross.  It marks the Stations of the Cross. 

For Time and Place, in Lilac Class, we will be writing up some important information that we learnt from a talk that Dave will give us about what St Barnabas School was like in 1897, reading from log book entries written by different Head Teachers. We have the original log books in school and Dave gets them out to show to the public during our Heritage Day.  How has life as a pupil at St Barnabas changed?  Are some things the same?

  For Science in Lilac Class, our main question is: Can evaporation separate a solid (solute) from a liquid (solvent)?  We will mix cold water in a sauce pan cold with 2 tablespoonfuls of salt.  Lilac Class will then boil this solution for 30 minutes and observe what happens. 

In ICT, we are continuing with our work on flat files.  This week we are explaining that computer programs can be used to compare data and we will select an appropriate chart to visually view data. In French, Lilac Class are learning words for different types of transport and the buildings that you would find in a town. We will also be designing a map of an imaginary town drawing and labelling in French the different buildings and places.

For Design and the Arts this week, we are examining a piece of orchestral music composed during Queen Victoria’s reign.  The music is ‘Nimrod’ from Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations. This will be a musical appreciation exercise.  How does the music make you feel?  Why?  Do you like the music?