Welcome to Rosen Class

Class Teacher

Miss Nicola Booth 

Teaching Assistants

Miss Becca Sherrington

Miss Clare Champion 

Miss Natasha Cook 

Rosen Class is made up of 8 energetic and amazing children. We are a pre-formal class, however you will see some semi-formal learning across some areas of the curriculum. We follow Branch Maps supported by the Equals curriculum to develop very personalised learning for all our children.

Our day is split into whole group teaching and supported independent learning through continuous provision,  helping us to practice and consolidate our learning and skills. We have regular sensory breaks to help us stay focussed where needed, and we work on our IEP targets daily so that we can be the very best that we can be.

Each child in Rosen Class has a Keyperson with whom they develop a bond that helps them feel safe and secure in the school environment. The class teacher has overall responsibility for all the children in class and the key people support the teacher to ensure the children achieve their very best.

Below are our Half termly Topic webs. They give a brief outline as to the types of things your child will learn during each half term. Each half term has a different theme supported by a core book.

Week 26 - 31st March 2025

A fun filled Easter themed week brought my time in Rosen class to an end. We have decorated Easter gingerbread, made chocolate nests, been on a egg hunt and visited The Wild Boar animal park. We also celebrated one of our friends 8th Birthday with cake!

The farm was such fun, we had lovely weather and saw lots of farm animals. We saw, sheep, goats, pigs, meerkat, geese, wild boar. donkeys, a baby chick and deer.

We had a ride on a tractor and got to play on the park too. A wonderful day was had by all.

Pupil of the week - ALL the children and staff in Rosen, for being superstars...I will miss being your teacher every day!

Week 25 - 24th March 2025

In Rosen class this week we have been looking at numbers of significance in maths. We made cakes and put candles in to show how old we are. 

In phonics we have learnt the letters sound, 'h'. For cooking we made pizza wraps, they were delicious, we are getting so good at spreading things now. For topic we read the story again and looked closely at cows and made cows of our own. 

We have made bird feeders in forest school using oranges and seeds. Our music lesson continues to be lots of fun with maximum engagement from all the children.

We want to wish all our wonderful females, our Mums, Grandmas, Nannas and aunties a very happy Mother's day. We hope you get some 'time out' for you on this special day - you are all truly amazing!

Our last week before the Easter break will be fun and full of Easter activities.

Pupil of the week - Anthony for his wonderful manners and always making us smile

Week 24 - 17th March 2025

This week we have looked at the letter 'r' in phonics, we are really good at writing sounds now. In maths we have been sorting big and small. For topic we have looked again at our story and looking at sheep and their babies, we looked at some wool from a real sheep too. We made biscuits to look like sheep.

We love our 'bucket time' activities and are able to really focus now. Swimming was fun this week and so was ICT with Mr Mahmood.

We celebrated Red nose day on Friday by wearing red and decorating potatoes in class. We finished the week off by going to the park.

Pupil of the week - Ezra - for a positive attitude to school

Week 23 - 10th March 2025

What a busy week, so busy we haven't taken many photos!

In Phonics we have started our new phonics programme, we are following The Lancashire Red Rose scheme. The children have taken to it really well and we will continue our hard work to learn our letter sounds.

In maths we have been looking again at Numicon, recognising, ordering and adding together.

In cooking we made potato cakes and put them in the air fryer to cook.

We have carried on our topic around farms and thought about pigs, where they live, what they eat, what their babies are called.

Our fine motor skills continue to be developed using different ways to develop our hand strength and we are developing our gross motor skills.

Pupil of the week - Thomas - for smiling his way through the week and having a positive attitude to his learning.

Week 22 - 3rd March 2025

In Rosen class this week we have been learning the letter sound 'e', our writing skills are really developing well!

In Maths we looked at 2d shapes, naming them, talking about them and drawing them. In cooking we celebrated pancake day and made pancakes topping them with a choice of different toppings.

In PSHE we looked at washing our hands and how to keep those invisible germs away. On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day, there were some wonderful costumes around school and we did lots of fun things to celebrate.

On Friday we went to the park and had lots of fun, we also did some fine motor activities and used our talk boxes to encourage communication.

Pupil of the week - Khadejah - for her progress in phonics

Week 21 - 24th February 2025

Our first week back after half term has seen us start reading our new core text, 'Dora's Eggs'. On Monday Dora came into school to meet us all, she was well behaved and let some of us feed her! We will be using this book for the rest of the half term and learning that, 'A farmers work is never done!'

We continue with our phonics work and have been learning the letter sound 'ck'. In Maths we have have been using Numicon for our work and some of us have been adding two Numicon tiles together to make a bigger number. In cooking we made chicken nuggets using the airfryer as we look at what a healthy diet looks like.

In PSHE we are also looking at how we keep our bodies healthy!

We finished our week off in a wonderful way with a visit to The Space Centre. What fun we have there!

Week 20 - 10th February 2025

The final week of our first half of the spring term has been a wonderful week.

We have had a Valentines themed week, taking part in lots of wonderful valentine themed activities.

In maths we have been building towers and attempting enclosures. In phonics we have looked at the letter 'k', making the same sound as the 'c' from last week.

We baked cookies that were delicious and had fun with messy play. We are also practising our balancing skills in our outdoor area.

We wish everyone a wonderful and restful half term and look forward to seeing everyone again on Monday 24th February.

Week 19 - 3rd February 2025

In Rosen class this week we have been learning the letter sound, 'c'. In Maths we have been rolling a dice and doing the right number of movements - so we rolled a 3 and had to do 3 claps, and some of us were making marks to represent numbers, so we rolled a 4 and had to make 4 marks on our board or show us 4 with our fingers.

In messy play we explored the texture of paint through cling film and in topic we have been looking a the footprints that a bear makes and where a bear might live. That is the last of our Who made those footprint topic, next week we will be spending the week looking at all the special people we love, for Valentines day!

MATP has seen us continue to grow in confidence with our climbing and balancing skills.

On Friday we took part in NSPCC number day. We sang some of our favourite number songs and did some activities based around the rhymes, we also sang our favourite, 5 currant buns songs and made a mess splatting the buns as we bought them using shaving foam! We went to the park again and lots of fun, we also had a class challenge to make a number 6 in a creative way....we spotted lots of the number 6 on our number hunt and made them into a 6 to hand in for our competition. Fingers crossed we win!

Pupil of the week - Thomas - for his interactions in music

Week 18 - 27th January 2025

This week we have  been looking at the letter 'o' in phonics. In maths some of us have been looking at 'big' and 'small' and some of us have been looking at 'full' and 'empty', playing with sand to help us understand the concepts.

In PSHE we have looked at how our teachers are special to us and in communication we continue our colourful semantics, thinking about our core text, Funny Footprints!

In our topic lesson we have learnt where worms live, we made habitats for them and also a yummy edible habitat too!

We are making so much progress in our swimming lessons and also with our name writing. We featured on this weeks news letter....everyone at school is so proud of us for all our hard work.

Week 17 - 20th January 2025

This week in phonics we have been learning the letter sound, 'g', we have been writing it, saying and finding words that start with it. Some of us have also been reading captions or single words and finding the matching pictures!

In maths we have been looking for numerals in the environment - we were super sensible and went onto the staff car park to look for numbers, they were everywhere!!

For topic we have been looking at habitats, we looked at a birds footprints and then where they live. We found out they live in nests and so we made nests and some birds to go in them. We also made some sausage worms, as that is something birds like to eat.

In PSHE we have been thinking about other people special to us and have been doing some transient art to make a picture of the teachers in our class. In MATP we are still busy climbing, throwing, pushing and taking turns.

Pupil of the week - Paul for shining bright in all he has done this week

Week 16 - 13th January 2025

In phonics this week we have been looking at the letter, 'd' and recapping all the other letters we been learning. We are very good at recognising, saying and writing those letters now.

In maths we have been making AB patterns with shapes and sorting objects into colours.

For messy play we had some chocolatey smelling playdough to play with and for motor skills we were very good at threading cheerios onto uncooked spaghetti and using the peg boards.

We really enjoy going in the hall for our MATP sessions and are becoming very confident at using the large equipment to travel in different ways.

In topic we made our own footprints and and we made a bear using a pancake and fruit to decorate.

In PSHE we were thinking about who is special to us in our family by making family portraits and playing family bingo.

Forest school was cancelled this week so we got out the parachute and had fun playing games with that.

We finished our week with our first community visit. We walked safely with our adults to the park and had lots of fun playing on the equipment. Well done everyone for doing so well.

Pupil of the week - Zayyan for expressing his wants  and needs so beautifully.

Week 15 - 6th January 2025

Welcome back to all our families. We have had a wonderful first week back, the children have settled back well and we have got straight back into our learning. We have read our new Core book, 'Funny footprints' and have looked at some prints that different animals make. We made prints in our cookies too!

In phonics we have been looking at the letter 'm' and in maths we have been looking at 1 and lots, and working out if groups of up to 3 are the same or different.

We have explored how to use pipettes in messy play and watched the white powder (bicarb of soda) fizz when the liquid (vinegar) was added.

Forest School was a cold but exciting one, we looked at the footprints we made in the snow and ice with our own prints. 

Week 15 - 16th December 2024

A very festive end to the term. The children were absolutely fantastic in their nativity with the rest of the the children. Well done to everyone!

We enjoyed our class Christmas party and also celebrated Miss Sherrington and Miss Booths birthday's on the last day of term... The cake was delicious!

We wish all our families a safe and restful Christmas break and look forward to seeing you all on the 6th January when we start our new topic.....Who made those footprints?

Pupil of the week - All of Rosen Class for being stars in the Christmas performance

Week 14 - 9th December 2024

Christmas has well and truly arrived in Rosen class this week with lots of glitter and sparkle everywhere!

We had our Christmas jumper day on Wednesday when we also joined the rest of the primary classes in the hall to enjoy our Festive Christmas Lunch.

We made gingerbread men for cooking and all enjoyed eating them after they had been decorated. We have done lots of maths and phonics with a Christmas theme and been busy rehearsing for our Nativity.

In PE we got to use the hall and had a go on the large equipment, we were all so brave climbing really high.

We have one week left before our Christmas break with lots more fun to be had next week.

Pupil of the week - Khadejah for using the many different communication techniques with growing independence

Week 13 - 2nd December 2024

We have had some problems this week with our iPad and so I don't currently have any photos to share. It doesn't mean we haven't been working hard.

We have been looking at shapes in maths, sorting, organising and thinking about them. In phonics we have have learnt about the letter sound, 'n' and have done lots of activities to help us remember this sound in our reading and writing.

We made cornflake cakes in cooking and in music we have thinking about loud and quiet sounds. We have been busy practicing our songs for the nativity.

We will be doing lots of Christmas Activities for the final two weeks of our term, it is going to be a fun time ahead.

Week 12 - 25th November 2024

This week started with a fun session at a play centre. What fun we had!

We have had our final week reading our Core story and doing activities around The three Little Pigs. We made pig buns, ordered pigs by size and listened to our story.

In Phonics we looked at the letter sound 'i' and did lots of activities to help us learn this sound.

We continue to work hard with our gross motor skills and are getting very good at balancing, climbing and jumping.

Week 11 - 18th November 2024

It has been a whirlwind of a week in Rosen class. We continue to work hard in phonics and have been thinking about the letter sound, 'p', some of us have been pppotato printing. In maths we have been thinking about BIG and small and putting the pug in size order from BIG to small. We have listened to our story The three little pigs again and have been able to order the story. In cooking we made, 'pigs in blankets' they were delicious!

We had a special visitor, Willow our therapy dog came to play. We loved chasing her round, she was very cheeky and kept pinching our toys!

Pupil of the week - Khadejah for finding her voice so much more

Week 10 11th November 2024

This week we have taken part in Odd sock day on Tuesday as part of Anti Bullying Week and Children in Need on Friday.

We continue with our Phonics and are whizzing through our Phase 2 sounds, carrying out many activities that help us consolidate our learning of the sounds. In maths we are ordering numbers and beginning to match numeral to quantity using various different ways.

We cooked 'Straw stacks', which were delicious and in Forest School we toasted marshmallows and drank hot chocolate.

We continue to read our core story, The Three Little Pigs and made houses out of, straw, sticks and bricks.

Pupil of the Week - Anthony, for his positive attitude towards his learning this week.

Week 9 - 4th November 2024

This week we welcomed many of our parents to our Exhibition afternoon. We took part some Bonfire night themed activities. Thank you to everyone who could make it.

In Phonics we are learning our phase 2 sounds and doing activities to help us remember those sounds.

In Maths we have been looking at pattern, copying patterns and making our own wonderful patterns. We have started reading our new core story, The three little pigs and enjoyed a lovely sensory story this week.

We are working hard towards achieving our IEP targets and are enjoying our time together in class building positive relationships with each other.

Week 8 - 28th October 2024

Our first week back after half term and we have been thinking about changes in the weather. We looked at some different things that Miss Booth found on her walk. There were lots of different shape, size and coloured leaves. We looked at conkers and berries and of course pumpkins!

We are busy practicing our gross motor skills and are getting really good at all aspects of them. We have been buried head to toe in mud down in forest school, which is always great fun.

We have made some Hedgehog bread which was delicious and enjoyed by everyone. and towards the end of the week we enjoyed lots of sensory experiences  playing in different textured Halloween themed gloop, rice and pumpkin insides, what a wonderful mess we made.

Week 7 - 14th October 2024

Our final week of our first half term has been as busy as ever. The children never cease to amaze us with their talents and skills. We continue to think about initial sounds in phonics. In maths we are really developing a great understanding of Numicon, we are able to order Numicon to 10 and use the pegs to represent the numerals.

In cooking we made stuffed jacket potatoes, cheesy ones were our favourites. our fine motor skills work is developing as we practice mark making and writing our names.

We all want to thankyou for a wonderful first half term and hope you have a restful break ready to come back full of enthusiasm for a new half term.

Week 6 - 7th October 2024

Another busy week this week in Rosen class. We have been thinking about prepositions in maths, using, in, on and under. Buzz (our class bee helped us with this) and we also decorated a biscuit putting icing 'on' the biscuit.

In Phonics we have been looking at hearing initial sounds in words and we are trying really hard at hearing that initial sound in words.

For topic we have made more spotty pictures and in cooking we made chocolate apples. We are really enjoying our time in Forest school each week. and continue to work hard on our IEP targets each week.

Pupil of the week - Ezra - for improved engagement in group activities

Week 5 - 30th September 2024

What a busy week we have had in Rosen class this week. We had our first WOW Wednesday were we looked at all things French, we sang rhymes in French, tasted French foods - some of us were brave enough to touch and smell snails!

On Thursday we celebrated National Poetry day, we sang some nursery rhymes and we made our own Humpty Dumpty using a hard boiled egg, we built a wall and watched as our Humpty's fell off the wall!

We have done our usual lessons too, in Maths we continued looking at Numicon, ordering it, and matching it to numerals and in Phonics we have been thinking about rhyming and alliteration, we were very good at playing bingo!

For topic we have made more spotty patterns and made a house out of biscuits. We will be looking at who lives in our house next week.

Pupil of the week - Thomas - for being a master at his name.

Week 4 - 23rd September 2024

In phonics this week we have been thinking about the sounds our bodies can make. We made some wonderful sounds with our mouths and our feet. In Maths we have been looking at pattern and this links to our new core text, My mum and dad make me laugh, Mum loves spots and dad loves stripes.....this will be our focus for the next few weeks.

We have played with our parachute this week and also continued our gross and fine motor skills development. Our word of the week has been introduced and this will be a new word each week that will help us communicate well. Our word this week was....'I want'

Pupil of the week - Paul - for settling in so well to  his new class and trying his best with everything he does.

Week 3 - 16th September 2024

This week we have been looking at Numicon in maths and making various shapes using them. We have done lots of gross motor activities and many fine motor activities too. In phonics we have been thinking about body percussion and all the sounds we can make with our mouth, hands, feet and any other body part.

Pupil of the week - Zayyan

Week 2 - 9th September 2024

Another fabulous week in Rosen Class. The children are settling so well and continuing to become familiar and happy in their new surroundings.

In maths all the children have wowed us with their colour sorting abilities. In phonics we have been recognising sounds and for Literacy we have continued to read our core story The Colour monster, we have made some lovely colour monsters too in our topic.

We have done music this week and will continue to do this weekly. We have been practising our cutting skills with knives and scissors. Attention Autism (Bucket time) is definitely going to be one of our favourite lessons each week, and PE and swimming have gone down really well too.

Pupil of the Week - Ziyad for using excellent communication skills

Week 1 - 2nd September 2024

What a wonderful start to our new year. Welcome to our friends old and new. The children have been busy exploring their new environment and finding the things they like to do. We have done lots of fine motor activities this week. In maths we have been completing puzzles and looking at recognising and ordering numerals. We have read The colour monster and will be doing more work on this next week. We have painted our portraits to begin our topic, 'Who am I?' 

We have sat together for lunch and snack and started to build some positive interactions with our teachers already.

Have a look at our photos to see what we have been up to.

Pupil of the Week - All of Rosen class for settling in so well.

Class of 2024-25