What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 4.5.26

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are reading and interpreting two-way tables and then timetables.  We will be exploring the information these give us and how a timetable is the same and different from a two-way table. Lilac Class are then moving onto a new unit of learning entitled ‘Shape’.  We will be learning to understand and use degrees, know what clockwise and anticlockwise mean and how many degrees are in a right angle, a full, half and quarter of a turn.  Lilac Class will also be learning about acute, obtuse and acute angles.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are planning a newspaper article about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.  We will be looking at a range of information texts, including actual newspaper articles written just after the Titanic sank.  Lilac Class will also be watching some original film footage and extracts from documentaries about the tragedy.  We will be learning about the features of a newspaper report – headline, Byline, Lead, Body, Picture and Caption and Tail. 

Our Whole Class Guided Reading text is Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill. This week we are reading pages 13–18, developing our explanation and inference skills.  Lilac Class will be thinking about whether Ernest Shackleton was right to get rid of some of his crew and how the crew felt when the Endurance set sail.  Why did it take a month to make final preparations? 

For RE in Lilac Class, considering who supports us in our lives and who has supported us during key events in our life journey so far. We will also be learning about what Muslims believe about Allah.  Our key questions will be the following:  What is Tawhid? What are some of the 99 names for Allah and what do these mean?  For Time and Place in Lilac Class, we are learning about how rivers are formed and the journey of a river.  We will be thinking about the role the water cycle plays in the formation of rivers.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our learning about how flowering plants, completing a life cycle diagram that shows each stage of the process – pollination. Fertilisation, seed dispersal, germination leading to the growth of a flowering plant.

In ICT, Lilac Class are creating vector drawing by combining shapes and coloured shapes using  Google Drawings, experimenting with the shape and line tools.  In French, we are continuing with our work on the names of different animals and designing our animal rescue poster.

For Design and the Arts, we are singing songs about the sea and accompanying them with pitched and unpitched percussion.  Lilac Class will be learning traditional musical notation, for example crotchets, quavers, minims and semibreves.