What we are doing this week in Lilac Class

WB: 14.3.22

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are continuing with division revising work covered in year 4 and then moving onto short division method using counters to partition numbers and then group to develop understanding. We will then be moving onto dividing with remainders.  Remainders will be represented as a whole number and not as a fraction at this stage.   

In English this week, we are planning a Victorian pupil’s diary account about their day at school.  Our text that we will be using for this is ‘You Wouldn’t want to Be a Victorian Schoolchild!’ by John Malam.  Our diary entries will describe what reading, writing and arithmetic lessons were like.  We will also be finding out about lunchtimes, prizes and punishments.  In Guided Reading, we are reading chapters 18 and 19 of Berlie Doherty’s Street Child. Lilac Class are explaining their opinion this week. We will be thinking about whether Jim should feel guilty about his actions and why. 

In RE, Father John will be coming into talk to us about the Stations of the Cross and The Via Dolorosa – the route Jesus took on his way to the cross.  Father John will be talking to us about the Holy Church of the Sepulchre.  We will also be considering who was responsible for Jesus’s Death: Judas, Pilate, God, the crowds, the Sanhedrin or Jesus himself.

For our Topic this week, Lilac Class will be finding out about diseases and medical care during the Victorian period and the progress that was made in medicine.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are using our knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including filtering, sieving and evaporating.  In Art, we are continuing with our Victorian samplers using binka and a selection of coloured thread.  Lilac Class will also be learning about William Morris and his designs.  We will then create our own designs based on his ideas related to nature.