Iona
Welcome to Iona Class
We are Year 1
Our teachers are Miss Rhodes, Mrs James , Mrs Yeaman & Mrs Green
See what we have been doing in Y1 in our lessons this term.
Iona Spring Term Newsletter
The children were sequencing the story of Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
The children were halving cubes in hoops.
The children were matching rhyming words
The children built the Three Little Pigs houses in the outside area.
The children were learning about printing in Art so they studied Pointillism.
The children were working out the pattern in Maths using different objects.
Children made porridge outside whilst retelling the story of Goldilocks.
The children created a fact sheet about safety.



Collage In Art
The children were using different materials to create fairy tale characters.
Holidays and Holy Days
The children were sharing where they have been on holiday.
Money
The children have been buying items and giving change.
Fantasy Stories
The children have been comparing different fantasy stories.
Lent
The children were learning about almsgiving, fasting and prayer during lent.
Place Value
The children were learning what the numbers mean in place value.
Literacy
The children were roleplaying the Little Red Hen Story.
Sliders
The children enjoyed making sliders with year 3 for their class assembly next week.
Science Day
The children had fun doing different science activities working their way through the different KS1 classes.
Fairy Tales
The children were looking at different Fairy Tales and discussed different sections of the stories.
Poetry
The children were working in small groups, working together to learn their words for their assembly later in the month.
All Change
We were learning how plants change and grow. We created different sizes of animals to how they change.
World Book Day
The children shared their books with each other, dressed in their character costumes.
Weighing
We learned about calculating mass and using weighing scales.
Stories from other cultures
We watched the story of Handa's Surprise and we learnt about different tropical fruits.
E-Safety Day
The children listened to a story about Smartie the Penguin who took advice from his parents about how to stay safe online. They made posters to teach EYFS how to stay safe and they learnt a short safety poem.
Learning Poems that Rhyme
The children have enjoyed acting out poems about food and routines.
Adding and Subtracting
We have been using a number line to add and subtract.
Special People
Poems
Counting Money
Where's my Teddy?
In Year 1, we have been developing our understanding of story settings through acting out the scene in the wood. Take a look at our role play!
Where's my Teddy Roleplay?
What are the British Isles?
The children have been learning about all the countries of the British Isles and were challenged to label the map to reveal what they already knew.



Christmas Party Information 2017
Our visit to Eastwood Library


Our shopping trip to Sainsburys
We enjoyed making our Cornflake Cakes with the ingredients we bought from the shop
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AUTUMN TERM NEWSLETTER TO PARENTS
We have all taken part in our Victorian Wash Day
We enjoyed using musical instruments to make animal sounds




We had so much fun following our instructions with bossy verbs to make a jam sandwich















As part of our RE topic, we made a special trip to Our Lady of Good Counsel to act out a Baptism. All the children played a part, most of which were part of the congregation, others were the parents and godparents.
Special thanks go to Mrs O'Malley who very kindly took part with her baby.
In Literacy, we enjoyed acting out Farmer Duck using time connectives








