Menston Primary School

Making our world a better place

Year 1 – Willow & Elm

STAFF

Our Year 1 teachers are:

Elm Class – Miss Dibb

Willow Class – Mrs Hardiman and Mrs Gilmour

Our Teaching Assistants are: Mrs Pheasey, Mrs Turnock and Mr Dover

We are also taught by Mrs Meakin and Mrs Maher

Contact

You can contact Reception staff directly by emailing Year1@menston.mlt.co.uk

In term time, year group emails will be checked and responded to between 3:30 and 4:30pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, so please do not send any urgent messages to this account.

Instead, please contact the school office at office@menston.mlt.co.uk or by telephoning 01943 873180.

Timetable

Daily – Children need to bring a named water bottle into school every day. Children are able to access outside learning regularly so it is important that they always come to school with a waterproof coat. During the summer children should also have a named sunhat.

Monday (PM) –  Outdoor Learning (Mrs Meakin)

Friday – PE , children to come to school in PE kits and trainers.

Reading books are changed. Spellings.

Homework

The Year 1 newsletter is sent out via email every Friday outlining our learning.

Reading: Please read with your child as often as possible, ideally four times a week. Reading books are changed every Friday. This is the only day reading books need to be in school.

Children are given English and maths homework activities to complete every Friday. These can be found in book bags. Curriculum homework is included in the weekly letter and is in the form of a ‘Big Talk’ task.

For a list of suggestions of lovely picture books to read to your child click here.

Learning Overview

For information on school milk, please click here.

For information about our learning over the year, please see our Long Term Plan

For information on writing over the year, please click here.

For information on reading over the year, please click here.

For information on maths over the year, please click here.

For information on end of Y1 expectations for reading, writing and maths, please click here.

Announcements

We are proud to announce that we are a myHappymind Bronze Accredited school! This means that as a school we consider the mental health and wellbeing of our children as one of our top priorities.

Important Dates