Welcome to Usain Bolt Class!

In Bolt Class our teacher is Miss Nicholls and our teaching assistant is Mrs Smith. Mrs Smith and Ms Hartin will teach us on Tuesday mornings.

Miss Wood, Mrs Vilums, Mrs Meakin, Mrs Hartin, Mrs Argyle and Mr Smith will help us in school each week too.

Useful Information

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.

Class News

We joined KS1 in the hall to perform our harvest songs. We all did a great job and listened really carefully while Mr Robertson told us about why we celebrate harvest. Please have a look on Tapestry or follow this link to watch us performing Big Red Combine Harvester!

Bolt and Farah | Dalestorth Primary and Nursery School (primarysite.media)

Thank you to everyone who kindly donated to our harvest table. As you can see our whole school collection looked amazing and all the food has been donated to the Salvation Army who will distribute it to local food banks in Ashfield 🥰

Useful Websites