What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 29.4.24

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we will be reading and interpreting tables finding out what information the table is giving us and how a table is similar and different from a line graph.  We will then be moving onto our next unit of learning entitled ‘Shape’.  In our first lesson we are learning about full, half, quarter and three-quarter turns and finding out what clockwise and anticlockwise mean. We will be thinking about how many right angles are in a full turn.  Lilac Class are going to learn about acute, obtuse and reflex angles and will learn to measure angles using a protractor.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are planning a newspaper article about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.  Lilac Class will be looking at a range of information texts including actual newspapers articles written just after the Titanic sank.  We will be learning about the features of a newspaper report – headline, Byline, Lead, Body, Picture and Caption and Tail. 

Our new Whole Class Guided Reading text is Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill. This week we are reading pages 13-18 developing our explanation and inference skills.  Lilac Class will be thinking about whether Ernest Shackleton was right to get rid of some of his crew and how the crew felt when the Endurance set sail.  Why did it take a month to make final preparations? 

For RE in Lilac Class, we are learning about what Muslims believe about Allah.  Our key questions will be the following:  What is Tawhid? What are some of the 99 names for Allah and what do these mean?  For Time and Place in Lilac Class, we are learning about how rivers are formed and the journey of a river.  We will be thinking about the role the water cycle plays in the formation of rivers.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are learning about asexual reproduction in plants and how this process is different from sexual reproduction in flowering plants.  In ICT,  Lilac Class are learning about Vector Drawing and will be experimenting with shape and line tools.

For Design and the Arts, we are singing songs about the sea and accompanying them with pitched and unpitched percussion.  Lilac Class will be learning traditional musical notation, for example crotchets, quavers, minims and semibreves.  Lilac Class will also be practising songs for the Tunbridge Wells Singing Festival that will take place at the Assembly Halls on Monday 10^th June. 

Please see attached '50 Recommended Reads for Year 5'.  You may find this information useful when choosing books for your child to read.