What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 22.6.26

Some of the coverage last week has been affected due to it being Assessment Week. 

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are exploring how to translate a shape, starting with translating a single point, then translating using coordinates. We will then be identifying lines of symmetry on shapes (vertical, horizontal, diagonal) using mirrors to help us.  We will also be starting our new block of learning entitled ‘Decimals’.  Lilac Class are using known facts to add and subtract decimals within 1 and finding compliments to 1.  We will be using ten frames and a hundred squares to support learning.  Lilac Class are then adding and subtracting decimals across 1 using partitioning and part-whole models to demonstrate our learning.  If time, Lilac Class will then move onto adding numbers with the same number of decimal places. 

For our Guided Reading text, Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill this week, we are reading pages 49–54. Lilac Class are again looking carefully at the illustrations by considering why the boat is so small on the double-page picture and why a map of South Georgia was provided.  Our summarising task is to compare the differences between the two parties’ current situations in less than forty words. 

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are now drafting our dual narrative based on our reading of our supplementary text Ice Trap!  Shackleton’s Incredible Expedition by Meredith Hooper.  The part of the text we are focusing on is where Endurance is trapped in the ice and is sinking.  As a class, we discussed the question ‘What should Shackleton and his men do now that the ship is sinking?’  In groups, we acted out this situation and what the men did, e.g. pulling lifeboats across the ice and carrying provisions from the sinking ship.  We will also draw on our ‘Hot Seating’ activity about this situation from the viewpoint of the men and then from the perspective of Ernest Shackleton, their leader. 

For RE in Lilac Class, we will continue with our study of Zakah and why it is important to Muslims.  Lilac Class will be thinking about who is generous to us and how being generous makes a difference and how it makes you feel.

For Time and Place in Lilac Class, we are exploring the mountain ranges in India and finding out where they are situated on a map.  We will be finding out how different types of mountains are formed and finding out facts about different mountain ranges. For Science in Lilac Class, we are learning about the life cycle of insects and amphibians and the differences between complete and incomplete metamorphosis.  In ICT, we are creating a program that uses selection to produce different conditions.  We are revisiting previous learning on selection and will be identifying how conditions are used to control the flow of actions in a program.  Lilac Class will be using the Scratch programming environment.

In French, this week we are learning about France as a country (currency, where it is located, what is a traditional dish, for example) and studying a map of French. 

For Design and the Arts, we are starting our Seascapes using a range of different materials to create a variety of effects and textures.  We will be listening to Arnold Bax’s Symphonic Poem Tintagel for inspiration and examining the mixed media design Colourful Fish Swirl by the artist Nikki B who lives in Tintagel in Cornwall.