St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

We have been receiving responses from our families survey all week and are delighted to see how positive and supportive our families are. We can see that you love our school as much as we do! We value your feedback and suggestions. Once the deadline has closed, we will collate the responses and feed these back to you.

I'm delighted to report that our attendance is improving rapidly and this week, for the first time since September, we are ABOVE National Average! Thank you for your effort in getting the children into school. We know the positive impact it has.

We are celebrating First Holy Communion at Church on Sunday,

so please feel free to join us there at 9am!

Have a lovely weekend.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

We are now in the first week of Lent and the virtue we have been exploring this week has been love.

As St Anthony Mary Claret said, 'Love is the most necessary of all virtues.'

In our Virtues Worship on Monday, we discussed how God loved us first, and how He wants us to love one another. This week, we have really focused on how we can show love to all members of our school family.

On Wednesday 10th April, from 2:30-3:30pm, we are hosting open classrooms, where children invite their families into school to share their wonderful learning.

After this, from 3:40pm-7:00pm, teachers will be holding learning reviews with parents/carers. Information on how to book a slot will be released nearer the date.

You should have received a text this week with details of our families survey.

Thank you so much to those families that have already responded!

Now that we are halfway through the year, we are keen to gauge your experiences of our school. If you are able to fill in our short survey below, we would be very grateful. This will help us to identify areas to strengthen and areas to celebrate!

https://forms.office.com/e/arky8g6qRk

This Sunday, 25th February, we will be celebrating First Holy Communion at 9am at St Joseph's Church. All are welcome.

As we approach the First Holy Communion, could you please keep the following children in your prayers:

Lacey-May, Owen, Ronnie, Felicity, Arabella

Today, we are launching the Eat Them to Defeat Them, healthy eating campaign! Please see the video and posters below for more information:

Home - Eat Them To Defeat Them

Each child should be bringing home a sticker chart today.

Congratulations to this star, who achieved a Diamond Award this week for working consistently on her spellings!

Whole School Attendance this week: 96.9%

This week, we have been ABOVE National Average 94.3(%)

Congratulations to St Bernadette's (for the second week in a row!) for having the best attendance this week!

In St Nicholas, we've been tasting porridge; counting bears with the playdough; painting and sticking bear faces; and turning our role play into the 3 bears' cottage. This links to our Number of the Fortnight: Thelma Three.

In our RE, we talked about Joy and Sorrow. We drew what makes us happy and sad.

This week we have been learning about pirates and we have made are own boats. We also have learnt about the composition of the number 4 and thought about how we could decorate our boats for Freddie Four.

If anyone has any materials for junk modelling including: cardboard boxes, clean yoghurt pots, bottle lids, tubes etc. please donate them to our Early Years. They would be gratefully received.

We started our Art topic this week and thought about the artist El Anatsui. We thought about how he reuses materials to

create his work. We used some things from the recycling to create our artwork.

This week in St Patrick's class we learnt about a significant historical person. Martin Luther King campaigned peacefully for equal rights for black people in America. He challenged injustice and racism and because of his courage, changes were made. We placed him on a timeline and compared his place in History with other topics we had learnt about.

Our new visitor in St Therese class is Charles Dickens. As part of our Victorians topic, we learned about why he wrote his stories and why they have become enduring classics. We are now reading and writing about Oliver Twist in our English work.

St Nicholas (Nursery): Mia

St Francis: (Preschool/Reception): Daisy

St Bernadette (Year 1/2): George A

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Toby

St Therese (Year 5/6): Sophie and George D

Headteacher's Award: Edith (for showing our virtue of LOVE)

Team point winners: St John

First Holy Communion (At St Joseph's Church): Sunday 25th Feb, 9am

FoSJ Meeting (At Magnets Social Club): Tues 27th February, 6pm

FoJS Treat Friday: Friday 22nd March, 3:30pm

Open Classrooms (All classes): Wednesday 10th April, 2:30-3:30pm

Learning Reviews: Wednesday 10th April, 3:40-7:00pm

First Reconciliation (At St Joseph's Church): Wed 17th April, 10am

FoJS Treat Friday: Friday 26th April, 3:30pm

Ascension Mass (At St Joseph's Church): Thurs 9th May, 11am

Year 6 SATs Week (and SATs breakfasts!): Mon 13th - Thurs 16th May

School Disco!: Thurs 23rd Mary

St Therese Residential Trip (Robinwood): Mon 3rd- Wed 5th June

As we are half way through the year and we have so many exciting events planned we are always grateful of any parents, carers and families getting involved! See the poster below which tells you more about who the key people are and how you can get in touch.

We are getting together as a Friends of St Joseph's group on Tuesday 27th February at 6pm at The Magnets Social Club to put our disco plans (and many other great ideas) into action. All welcome!

After half term, we will also be planning our next bigger events, which we are excited to announce will be a School Disco on May 23rd. Watch out for more details in the coming weeks and months.

Friends of St Joseph's is always welcome of parents/ family member to get involved! Please do message us via e-mail friendsofstjotad@gmail.com or via our Facebook page.

Use the button below if you'd like to give our staff a shout out!

We love hearing from you!

If you have a query or concern, please feel free to speak to me (Mrs Ronicle) at the gates in the morning or via email (headteacher@stjosephstadcaster.org); your child's class teacher at the end of the day; or our school admin team at the front entrance.

If this is not possible, feel free to phone or email the office who can forward any messages to staff.

Website: https://www.st-josephs-tadcaster.n-yorks.sch.uk/
Location: Station Road, Tadcaster, UK
Phone: 01937 832344
Twitter: @StJosephsTad

We are a proud member school of the Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust:

https://www.bishopwheelercatholicacademytrust.org/

Email: admin@stjosephstadcaster.org