FS2 - Reception - Usain Bolt
Welcome to Usain Bolt Class!
In Bolt Class our teacher is Miss Nicholls and our teaching assistant is Mrs Smith. Mrs Smith and Miss Blackwell will teach us on Wednesday mornings.
Miss Jesson, Mrs Hickman, Mrs Vilums, Mr Smith, Mrs Meakin, Mrs Hartin and Miss Penford will help us in school each week too.
Meet the FS2 team!
Useful Information
Newsletter
Welcome Leaflet
Knowledge Mats
Link Letters
Information about Tapestry and the EYFS
Our topics this year will be:
Autumn Term – History Focus
Autumn 1: Who Am I? Who Are You? - All About Me
Autumn 2: Why Do We Celebrate? - Celebrations
Spring Term – Geography Focus
Spring 1: Who Lives In a Land Far, Far Away? – Traditional Tales
Spring 2: Do You Fly, Walk or Swim? – Lifecycles & Animals
Summer Term – Art Focus
Summer 1: What’s Above Me? What’s Below Me? – Growing
Summer 2: Do You Wish You Were Here? - Travel
Each term, you will receive a newsletter telling you more information about each topic as well as brand new Knowledge Mats! These provide you with ‘Subject Specific Vocabulary’ and ‘Sticky Knowledge’ that your child will be learning throughout the topic.
For more information about our topics please follow this link:
https://www.dalestorth.notts.sch.uk/our-dalestorth-curriculum/
What can you do to help your child in FS2?
- Let us know about any changes in circumstances at home that might impact on school. Talk to us if you have any worries or concerns – write us a note, give the school office a ring or email the school office.
- Read to them and read with them! Reading and retelling a story are important skills to develop in FS2 and the more often you can look at books together and hear your child read, the quicker they will become successful, independent readers. Please write in your child’s reading diary when they have read to you as they will be rewarded for this with a raffle ticket (for 3 or more reads at home) and a chance to win a book, each week.
- Please continue to help your child learn the sounds and keywords in their plastic packet. You could ask them to put them into sentences to help remember them, make another set and play matching pairs or look carefully at the shape of the letters/words to help them recognise them as you call each one out.
- Use the Oxford Owl website to help your child with their reading (see link below in useful websites section). Please enjoy this wonderful website – a free eBooks collection. Log in – top right and then our class login is: Username: dale bolt Password: bolt
- Count! Count in 1s, in 2s, in 5s and in 10s; up the stairs, steps along the street, apples into the bag, pennies in the purse etc.
- Use Purple Mash — Purple Mash has a vast array of resources that you and your child can access for free! Use the link below in useful websites section and enter your child’s username and login which is located in your child’s diary.
- Come and help us – we always welcome parents to help us…listen to readers, help with baking, sewing etc.
- Make sure that all of your child’s clothing is named. This is such a big help to us - it’s very hard for us to find the owner of a blue cardigan/jumper when it has no name.
- Keep inhalers up to date if your child needs one.
- Look out for headlice and keep long hair tied back.
- Make sure your child is rested and goes to bed at a sensible time.
- Check your child's book bag, their class page and the school website regularly for letters sent home and access to more learning links.
Our Class News
For World Book Day this year, we all dressed up as an expanded noun phrase. Everybody looked great and we thought of lots fantastic describing words for our costumes. We then used these words to create our own World Book Day FS2 poem. Well done to Isla and Connie E who won a book and an Easter Egg for their costumes!
We all had a great time at the Christmas Party yesterday. We played lots of party games, such as pass the parcel and had some party food. It was so much fun to dance to some Christmas songs and have fun together before the Christmas holidays!
We had a great time performing our nativity 'Away in a Manger'
Christmas fair 🎅🏻🎄
We’ve had a great time at our Christmas fair. We played lots of games including elephun, skittles, flapping fish and crocodile dentist, as well as taking part in a colouring competition. We also played lots of fair games such as lucky dip, guess how many snowballs in the snowman jar, spin the wheel, hook a duck and find Santa’s sleigh. Everyone had a brilliant time and lots of prizes were won! We all feel very Christmassy now 🎅🏻🎄
A special well done to our competition winners:
Find Santa’s sleigh - Florence
Snowballs in the snowman jar - Charlie
Colouring - Isla & Ava-Grace
We made chocolate apples for bonfire night!🔥 We talked about good hygiene and washed our hands before making the apples. We learnt about how the chocolate melts as it gets heated up then had a great time making the chocolate apples Enjoy bonfire night 🎆
We all had a fantastic time going to the bakery 🥯 the children behaved beautifully and we were all very proud of them! The children were super sensible walking down to Tesco and all the children chose and bought their own pastry in the shop. When we got back to school everyone loved eating their extra special snack! What a great morning😊
We loved joining KS1 for the Harvest Festival. We performed 'Big Red Combine Harvester' and listened to Pastor Simon tell us all about the importance of giving thanks for all we have at this time of year.
We have had a great first few days in school. Here we are exploring our new classroom and having fun with our new friends...
