What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 9.12.24

In Maths this week in Lilac Class we are adding fractions with different denominators.  We are finding the common denominator using our knowledge of factors and multiplication.  We will also be using pictorial representations to support our calculations.  We will then move onto adding fractions that are greater than one by converting mixed numbers into improper fractions. This will lead us to adding two mixed numbers using partitioning and recombining. 

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are re-drafting and then writing up our travel articles as a best copy. We will be looking carefully at our levelling up and making our writing the very best that it can be!  

For our Whole Class Guided Reading we are reading Chapters 15, 16 and 17 this week of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. These are the final chapters of our guided reading text. We are explaining how the author C.S. Lewis makes Chapter 16 uplifting and in the final Chapter, answering why the author may have given Edmund retribution. 

In RE, we are finishing off by re-visiting our Big Question ‘Was Jesus the Messiah?’ drawing on the knowledge we have gathered throughout this unit.  What does the Messiah mean?  What examples from the texts that we studied are evidence that Jesus was to be the Messiah? In French, we are learning the words for different places you will find in a town, such as a swimming pool, church, bank or park.  We will also be learning the words for different forms of transport.  Lilac Class will be designing a poster advertising Tunbridge Wells, persuading people to visit and drawing and labelling the different places within it. 

In ICT, we are evaluating our film making using digital cameras based on a whole class storyboard we wrote about St Barnabas School.  We will be looking at the different shots we used and how we could improve our videos.

For Time and Place, we are we are locating major cities in North and South America and finding out where Belize is in relation to those continents.  For Science in Lilac Class, we will find out that levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.   We will also learn that if a gear gives you more force, it must give you less speed at the same time.  If it gives you more speed, it has to give you less force. That’s why when you’re going uphill in a low gear, you have to pedal much faster to go the same distance. In Art, we are continuing with our pictures of peppers drawing on the work of the artist Yayoi Kusama.