What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 13.3.23

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, will be multiplying a mixed number by an integer exploring a range of methods to find the most efficient calculation.  How could you partition this mixed number to solve the calculation?  Lilac class will then move on to calculating a fraction of a quantity by exploring the relationship between dividing by the denominator and multiplying by the numerator.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are levelling up our narrative poems about the Victorian workhouse based on the analysis of poetry we have been reading.  What features of poetry writing have been used and why are they effective?  What words and phrases have we ‘Magpied?’

For Whole Class Guided Reading Lilac Class are reading Chapters 15 and 16 of Berlie Doherty’s ‘Street Child’ entitled ‘Josh’ and ‘Boy in Pain’. We are finding evidence in the text that tells us whether Grimy Nick likes Jim and why we think Jim wished he had a brother and how he felt when the dog was given a bone.  We are also predicting why the next chapter is entitled ‘The Monster Weeps’ thinking about who might the monster be and why might they be crying. 

For RE in Lilac Class we are considering who is responsible for Jesus’s death.  We will be completing a pie-chart shading in slices according to how much responsibility we think each person/group has.  We will then be writing a description of who is responsible, how much and why. For Time and Place, in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our learning about diseases and medical care during the Victorian period and what developments and improvements were made.  What would our health care system be like without the contributions Florence Nightingale made, for example? For Science in Lilac Class, our main question is: Can evaporation separate a solid (solute) from a liquid (solvent)?  We will be boiling in a sauce pan cold water containing 2 tablespoonfuls of salt.  We will boil this solution for 30 minutes and observe what happens.  For Design and the Arts, we are printing our wallpaper and then we are learning about the Victorian watercolourists such as William Henry Millais, Alfred William Hunt and John Ruskin.  Why was the landscape of the countryside so important to them? We will then visit Grosvenor Hilbert Park to sketch a landscape, weather permitting!