What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 13.1.25

This week is Assessment Week, so some of our curriculum coverage will be affected. 

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are starting our second block of learning entitled Multiplication and Division. Lilac Class are initially extending the formal written method covered in Year 4.  We will be using place value counters on place value charts to model the structure of the formal method.  We will also be multiplying a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number using the area model.  We are using this method before the formal written method, building on our knowledge of arrays.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are drafting our viewpoint narrative. This piece of extended writing is based on the first chapter of Berlie Doherty’s Street Child entitled ‘The Shilling Pie’. This week we are using our plans and brilliant vocabulary that we created during our brainstorming session and drama activity as a basis for our narrative, written from the viewpoint of the main character, Jim Jarvis. 

For Whole Class Guided Reading Lilac Class are reading Chapter 2 of Street Child. entitled ‘The Stickman’.  We will be discussing whether Mr Spink was right to force the family to leave their lodgings because they could not pay their rent and why the children were scared of the workhouse.

 In RE, we will be examining texts from Exodus 1:8-14 and 1:22. Lilac Class are highlighting key phrases from the Old Testament and explaining what each passage is about. We are going to match key vocabulary such as oppressed, persecute, justice, injustice, freedom and salvation to parts of these passages that are about the persecution of the Israelites by the Egyptians. We will be answering the question ‘Why were the Jewish people persecuted by the Egyptians?’ looking for evidence in the Exodus texts.

In ICT, Lilac Class will be creating a simple circuit and connecting it to a microcontroller, programming a microcontroller to make an LED switch on and explaining what an infinite loop does.  We will then be designing sequences that use count-controlled loops. In French, Lilac Class are learning words for different members of our family and will be involved in partner work creating questions and answers.

For Time and Place, we are finishing off our work using primary and secondary sources to find out information about Queen Victoria.  We have been finding out, for example, answers to the following: What sort of person was she?  How did she feel when she became Queen?  What was her childhood like?  How long did she reign?  For Science in Lilac Class, we are carrying on with our grouping of materials according to their properties and explaining the uses of different materials and comparing and sorting them.  We are learning what certain terms mean, such as flexible, reflexive, transparent and translucent. 

In Design and the Arts we are creating Victorian samplers using thread and binka.  We will be learning to use a variety of stiches with different coloured thread.  Lilac Class are basing these on  plans that we are designing this week.