Welcome to the Rosen class page. Below you will find details of what the children have been learning and doing at school. Please click on the link to the right of this page for homework.

Autumn Term 2025

In Learning Means the World this week, the children were excited to begin our new unit, ‘Never Eat Shredded Wheat’. We explored the four main compass points — North, South, East, and West — and the children showed great enthusiasm as they learnt about the additional points: North East, South East, South West, and North West. They practised using compass points to describe the location of objects on a map. Can your child use their compass skills to give directions to get from one feature to another on the map below?  

This week in our Learning Means the World lessons, the children have been busy designing a special bag for a fairy and creating a thumb pot with a lid to use as Cinderella’s jewellery box. A real highlight of the week was our trip to the Henley Literary Festival, where we met Andy Day and discovered more about the books he has written. The children enjoyed learning how to draw Dino Dad and listening to Andy read an extract from his story. Everyone was thrilled to take home their very own signed copy of Dino Dad: Mystery of the Missing Egg.  

  

  

This week in Learning Means the World the children have been exploring the wonderful world of birds! Together, we discovered common characteristics of a bird, talked about the word vertebrates, and enjoyed finding out fascinating facts about different species of birds using the RSPB website (https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/a-z). A real highlight was measuring different bird's wingspans with a tape measure—much to everyone’s excitement, one child even had the same wingspan as a tawny owl! We then moved on to learn about life cycles, focusing especially on the stages of a bird’s life.  

  

This week, the children have been busy creating harvest-themed artwork in preparation for the Harvest Service at Trinity Church.  In Maths, we have been practising different counting strategies to ensure the children count accurately. We explored various strategies such as lining objects up, moving objects, using a 10 frame, and crossing out objects. The children then matched numbers in different representations — linking numerals with groups of objects, cubes on a 10 frame, and the number written as a word.

  

  

This week, the children continued discussing different types of puppets. They had lots of fun designing and creating their very own sock puppets. Later in the week, we learned about living and non-living things. The class enjoyed going for a walk outside to spot, identify and compare examples of living and non-living things. Can your child explain what living things can do compared to non-living things that have never been alive?

  

  

The children in Rosen class have made a fantastic start to the school year! In English we have started to read our key text 'Pinocchio' and during an experience day the children enjoyed designing and making their own spoon puppets. In Maths the children have been naming and learning about the properties of 2D shapes. Can your child explain to you what a vertex and vertices are? You could ask your child how many sides and vertices each of the following shapes have: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon and octagon.