Menston Primary School

Extra-Curricular Provision

At Menston Primary School we firmly believe that our extra-curricular provision contributes to our children’s personal development and wellbeing. We offer a range of extra-curricular opportunities including sports, creative & musical opportunities and Coding Club.

To find out more about our extra-curricular provision, please click on the links below.

Letters, including details about each extracurricular club and how to register for them, will be sent out throughout the year.

Please click here to see an overview of the after-school extra-curricular clubs which are currently run in school. This will be updated throughout the year.

Please click here to see an overview of the lunchtime extra-curricular clubs.

Click the headings below to find out more about some of our clubs.

• Cross Country

  We are part of the Wharfedale Primary Schools Cross Country League. Race events take place on Saturdays throughout the year and are coordinated by Mrs Blaby, our PE Subject Leader.

  Please click this link to see more information about the Wharfedale Primary Schools Cross Country League.

   

   

• Wharfe Valley Primary Sports

  We take part in a range of competitive inter-school sports competitions, along with other schools in the Wharfe Valley. KS2 pupils from different year groups attend coaching sessions and compete in these friendly events each half term.

  Please click here to see the timetable for Quicksticks Hockey – autumn term 1 – Y4 & 5.

  Please click here to see the timetable for boys’ football – autumn term 2 – Y5 & 6 (girls’ football coaching/ tournaments will take place in the spring term).

   

• Menston Choir

  Our choir runs every Thursday after school from 3:15 – 3:45 pm. It is open to all year 3, 4, 5 and 6 pupils. Our choir is led by Mr Adam Gouldin from Bradford Music & Arts Service.

  Last year, our choir were awarded the Craigland’s Trophy when they entered the Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts.

• Peripatetic Music Lessons

  Bradford Music Service offer a range of music lessons which take place within the school day including individual and group piano, keyboard, brass, woodwind, upper strings, and guitar.

  Information of what is available can be found at:

  https://www.bradfordmusiconline.co.uk/site/ 

  Demonstrations of instruments can also be found at:

  https://www.bradfordmusiconline.co.uk/site/music-lessons/demonstration-videos/

• Spanish Club

  Mrs Rodriguez works with Year 2 children on a Monday evening, after school, to develop their Spanish speaking skills.

• French Club

  Mrs Pringle Van Berkel has extensive experience teaching Modern Foreign Languages. She works with the children on a Monday evening, after school, to develop their French speaking skills.

   

   

   

• Coding Club

  Menston Primary School is a registered member of Code Club, a nationwide network of volunteer-led after school coding clubs for children aged 9-11. Our Coding Club runs on Tuesdays after school from 3:15 to 4:15 pm and is open to all children in Y5 & Y6.

  Children work their way through Code Club Projects to develop their coding skills using Scratch, Python, HTML and Micro: Bit.

  Examples of Code Club projects:

  

  Lost in Space

  

  Boat Race game

  

   

• Gardening Club

  Held in the Summer term only and lead by Mrs Meakin, our gardening club gives our children an opportunity to express their green thumbs!

• Art Club

  Offered to Reception, Y1 and Y2 children who enjoy expressing their creative talents!

• Multi-Sports

  Mr Langan holds his after-school sessions with each year group throughout the school year, allowing them to try a variety of sporting activities. There is no charge for this club.

• Year 6 Yarnbombers

  I new club for Autumn Term 2 – The children will learn to knit, create their own items to take home and may even progress to making items that will be part of future Yarnbombing projects around the village. At the end of the half term the children will be given more yarn and their knitting needles to take away and continue knitting at home if they enjoy it.

• KS2 Astronomy Club

  Runs in the Autumn Terms and Spring Term 1 only.  The club will teach children about a range of astronomy topics including constellations, comets, planets, solstices, the Moon, eclipses, rockets and the life cycle of stars.