Welcome to Dosbarth Menai

Academic Year 2024/2025

The children have settled extremely well into the new school year and

Mrs Manuel, Mrs Morris, Mrs Jones and Myself (Mrs Gordon) would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all to our Year 1/2 family. 

I'm sure that this academic year 2024/2025 will bring its share of challenges however we will work together to bring your children exciting and challenging learning activities and adventures. 

This year we are lucky enough to be able to continue to use MyHappyMind as part of our Wellbeing curriculum, Please find additional information on the class Seesaw pages as well as a QR code/link to access the parent app.

We have a big focus on Wellbeing in Dosbarth Menai, we will be practicing our Yoga positions in PE and learning how to be more mindful and  follow the MyHappyMind wellbeing programme  We will soon be starting Forest school sessions and will be helping to develop our Forest school Area. We have met some of our learning power pets and found out which special skills and super powers they have. 

We are developing our Welsh language skills and are looking forward to celebrating St.David's Day

Dosbarth Menai Things You need to know :-

• PE days are Wednesday and Friday, full school PE kit is required, black jogging bottoms/leggings, or shorts in warmer weather white t-shirt with school red jumper, cardigan or hoody
• Forest School Sessions will take place some Wednesdays (Starting Spring Term 2)- children will need to bring with them wellies and a waterproof coat.
• Reading - Individual readers will mainly be listened to during our reading session on a Monday however reading folders with books and diaries should be in school daily.
• Healthy Snack is provided for the children daily along with milk or water, parents please pay via ParentPay.
• Children should have their own water bottle in school every day.
• Please ensure children are dressed appropriately for the weather we use the outdoors daily no matter the time of year.

In Dosbarth Menai we use the RWI phonics scheme and use White Rose Maths V3 as a guideline for our maths scheme of work.

Useful Links

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources?year=year-1-new#update

https://www.ruthmiskin.com/parents/

https://myhappymind.org/pre-login/

Last Year we were successful in being  awarded a Bronze Accreditation as a  MyHappyMind school. Please look out for how you can help us to achieve our next goal!