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.

Spring Term 2025

The children have continued their writing unit about The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. A particular highlight was reenacting a campfire experience, during which the children ate marshmallows, drank hot chocolate, listened to the next chapter of the story and sang campfire songs.The created a fantastic word bank in preparation for their writing next week.

During PE the children consolidated their learning about target games, focusing on decision making, preparing and aiming at a target. The children played a game of infinity tag to get their bodies warmed up and then they split into two activities (rolling rocks and noughts and crosses - similar to Boccia), where they worked as a team to develop their attacking and defending skills.

The children have enjoyed making Mother's Day Cards and writing their own special messages inside. 

  

  

Some of the Year Two children went to a Football Tournament at Rupert House yesterday and they were AMAZING! Not only did they play brilliantly, they followed rules respectfully and behaved really well, they showed great sportsmanship and cheered for other teams when not playing. We were thrilled to take part but imagine the excitement when both our teams went through to the quarter finals, and ended up in third and first place out of a total of 13 schools! 

  

The children's learning about the story of The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark was brought to life with a visit from the Feathers and Fur Falconry Centre. The children learnt about four types of owls including their diet, habitat and how they catch their prey. The children were treated to a Bhangra taster session as part of the Henley Youth Festival. They learnt some Bhangra dance moves and danced with ribbons. The children actively engaged with the session and it was clear to see they were enjoying it from the smiles on their faces. In Learning Means The World this week the children carried out a sound investigation to find out what happens to a sound when they are close to and move further away from a sound source. They learnt that the sound was louder and clearer when they were close to the source, because the sound waves were stronger, and the sound was quieter and fainter when they were further away from the sound, because the sound waves were weaker.

  

  

This week the children have enjoyed a performance by Music for Miniatures and a Create and Make workshop as part of the Henley Youth Festival. During the Music for Miniatures performance the children learnt about brass and woodwind instruments. The children were amazed to learn that the size of an instrument affects its pitch (the bigger the instrument the lower the sound and smaller the instrument the higher the sound). During their Create and Make workshop, the children made a flower height chart linked to the HYF theme of 'growing.'

During Learning Means The World this week the children have been exploring the question What do you know about your ears? The children have learnt about how sound travels and how they hear sounds. A particular highlight was the rice on a drum and string telephone investigations. To end their learning about sound for this week the children went on a sound hunt around the school site.

  

  

The children have been learning about the difference between rules and expectations. They worked in small groups to change the school rules into expectations.

The children in Rosen class thoroughly enjoyed World Book Day on Thursday 6th March. During the day, the children learnt how to put groups of words into alphabetical order, how to find a word in a dictionary and how to unscramble words and sentences. A particular highlight of the day was taking part in the word treasure hunt around the school site and unscrambling the words to work out the hidden phrase 'You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.'

Below are some comments from the children about World Book Day:

• Nina - "I enjoyed putting the words together to make the sentence on the treasure hunt."
• Hugo -"I really enjoyed seeing everybody's costumes and my favourite activity was when we did the treasure hunt."
• Isabella -"I liked it when we were putting words and pictures in the order of the alphabet."
• Henry - "My favourite part about World Book Day was getting to dress up in my football kit because I chose a book that explains all about football."

   

  

The children have been learning about contractions and using inverted commas/speech marks in their writing. They enjoyed matching two short words to their contraction which used an apostrophe to replace the missing letter(s). 

It has been wonderful to see so many children completing their home learning research about barn owls during half term. We have enjoyed sharing these with the class throughout the week and the children have used the information to create a word bank about a barn owl's appearance, behaviours, habitat, diet and feeding patterns.

In Maths, the children have started their new unit of adding and subtracting within 100. We have been adding and subtracting ones, adding ones to get to the next ten (applying their knowledge of number bonds to 10) and adding to a tens number. It would be wonderful if the children could practise their fluency with recalling number bonds up to 10, e.g If I say 3, how many more do you need to make 10? A further challenge would be for an adult to say "My number is 82, how many more do I need to add to get to the next ten?"

In our Learning Means The World lessons the children have applied their learning about compass point directions when programming a code to complete a given task. The children explored the initial stages of debugging and were challenged to identify problems in a code and fix them. 

  

    

  

  

  

The children really enjoyed a visit from Steve Frew, British artistic gymnast and gold medalist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Children took turns in completing a fun exercise circuit and then delighted in seeing Steve back flip, balance and leap over some (not so relaxed) volunteers during an assembly.

  

  

In Learning Means The World, the children have recapped their learning about compass points. They have been learning about physical features and co-ordinates. The children particularly enjoyed playing battleships to develop their ability to read coordinates.  In PE, the children enjoyed playing the game 'Change it!' where there were cones with tennis balls scattered around the area and when the children heard the instruction "Change it!" they had to pick up a tennis ball and put it on a different cone. During the lesson the children practised their throwing and catching skills and worked cooperatively with a partner.  In RE, the children talked about the food and drink which Jewish people do and do not have. To develop their understanding the children sorted kosher and non-kosher pictures.

  

  

  

The children have enjoyed developing their painting skills by exploring what happens when you add white to a colour. In English, the children have been learning about rhyme using the book 'When I Was a Pirate'. During Maths we have been consolidating the children's understanding about 3D shape - faces/surfaces, vertices and edges. In PE, the children developed their ball skills, focusing on throwing and catching. 

  

  

The children in Rosen class have been enjoying their forest school sessions this half term and have relished the opportunity to explore the forest school site. A particular highlight has been the mud slide! In Maths this week the children have been introduced to 3D shapes and have started to explore how many faces/ curved surfaces a cone, sphere, cylinder, cube, cuboid, triangular prism and square-based pyramid have. In English the children learnt more facts about pirates and used them to create a plan for their non-chronological report. During our Learning Means The World lessons this week the children enjoyed learning about primary colours and what happened when they mixed two primary colours together.

  

  

In Rosen class this week the children have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. We have discussed how many’s sides, faces and vertices the shapes have. Perhaps you could go on a 2D and 3D shape hunt at home to consolidate their learning. In English, the children have been continuing to learn about the features of a non-chronological report and as part of their writing they have been using verbs and adjectives. 

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The children have continued their learning about pushes and pulls. They were able to explain what happens when you push or pull something and what forces can do to an object. In Learning Means The World this week the children have been learning about how people move boats into and out of the water. As part of this, the children enjoyed making their own trailers in school. We have also been learning about the parts of the ship. In addition to drawing and labelling their own pirate ship, the children enjoyed playing pirate games where they had to follow the captain's orders and navigate to the right direction of the ship (port, starboard, bow and stern).

      

  

Rosen class started this term by writing a New Year's resolution. We have been exploring the forces, pushes and pulls and the children started their new Learning Means The World Topic - Land Ahoy! - as part of this they have started to explore the different ways things move. The children worked as a group to sort pictures into things which move using wings, wheels and legs.