What we are doing this week in Lilac Class

WB: 21.3.22

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are starting our new block of learning entitled ‘Fractions’.  We will be revising the work covered during Year 4 using pictorial and concrete representations to demonstrate equivalent fractions. We will then be exploring equivalent fractions and the relationship between the numerator and the denominator.  

In English this week, we are now writing 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 20-23 of Berlie Doherty’s Street Child. Lilac Class are particularly developing their ability to summarise key information in a succinct way. 

In RE, we are continuing with our work about considering who was responsible for Jesus’s Death: Judas, Pilate, God, the crowds, the Sanhedrin or Jesus himself.  We will then be moving onto exploring the themes of jealousy, weakness and selfishness in the Big Story. 

For our Topic this week, Lilac Class are continuing with their work 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.