What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 25.3.24

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are recognising percentages as fractions and decimals and considering how they are the same and different.  We will be using our place value counters to recap that when 1 whole is split into 10 equal parts, each part is equal to 0.1 and when it is split into 100 equal parts, each part is 0.01.  Lilac Class will then be finding equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.  All of these equivalents can be found by splitting up a hundred square into given equal parts and then making the link to hundredths.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are levelling up a historical report about being a pupil during the Victorian period.  As a class, we have been reading You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Victorian Schoolchild! Lessons you’d rather not learn by John Malam. This text has served as a basis for our writing. 

We are coming to the end of Street Child by Berlie Doherty. We will be using our inference skills when thinking about how Barnie (Dr Barnardo) was different from other teachers Jim has had and why it was risky to tell Barnie about where all the street children sleep. 

For RE in Lilac Class, we are discussing how we can weigh up the value and impact of the ideas of sacrifice in our own lives and the world today.  We will also be re-visiting our ‘Big Question’ to see how much we have learnt and how our knowledge of salvation has developed this term. For Time and Place, in Lilac Class, we are going to be involved in a debate about the positive and negative impact the development of the railways had on the population of Great Britain.  During the process of building the railways there were many accidents and trains were not always safe.  However, improvements were made and cheap transport changed people’s lives forever.   Lilac Class are learning about Isambard Kingdom Brunel. 

For Science in Lilac Class, we are conducting an experiment that shows an irreversible change.  We will be explaining that some changes result in the formation of new materials by adding vinegar to bicarbonate of soda in a bottle and putting a balloon over the top.  For Design and the Arts, 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!  We will also be making shortbread based on Mrs Beeton’s recipe. 

I have not set Homework over the Easter break. However, I have attached our Wider Curriculum Learning Matrix with optional activities, if your child would like to do any of them.  Also, please ensure your child has finished our e-book ‘Ollie and the Great Stink’