St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

One of the things that makes us really special at St Joseph's is the way in which we nurture the whole child, underpinned by our Gospel values. This week, it's been great to see so many opportunities for our children to build and strengthen some of those virtues. Across school, we enjoyed PSHCE workshops, run by The Children's Society; St Patrick's class participated in their outdoor adventure day; the Open the Book team facilitated a vibrant, creative worship; children of all ages played a fun game of dodgeball together at lunchtime; and our Little Rescuers developed their life-saving skills!

We are really proud of the way in which our children eagerly and enthusiastically embrace the challenges and opportunities we give them. Each day, working hard to...

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

This week, we continued exploring our virtue of hope.

We talked about the Bible story of Jesus healing the blind beggar, because the beggar believed that Jesus could and would. We discussed the hope that the blind man demonstrated and how this hope brought him great things. We reminded ourselves that, .. With God, all things are possible!

Huge thanks to the Children's Society, who spent a morning in school this week, delivering PSHCE workshops for all of our children! These sessions helped to strengthen the virtues of compassion and charity within our children. To find out more about the charity and their wonderful work, have a look at their website: The Children's Society | UK children's charity (childrenssociety.org.uk)

Quick reminder: Your child's art work should now have come home along with order forms for you to transform them onto cards, mugs and more! The deadline for orders is this Sunday (26th November). As soon as all orders are placed we can confirm delivery dates, which will be to school.

We loved playing the Crazy Chef matching game! This helped us develop our memory skills, concentration, turn-taking skills and hand-eye coordination!

In PE this week, St Francis continued with our impressive dance skills. We thought about how to add control to our movements including pointing our toes and stretching out to the ends of our fingers.

As part of our PSHE learning this week, we thought about how we can keep healthy with exercise and all the benefits that can give us. We enjoyed completing our own, very energetic, class workout!

This week in St. Patrick’s class we took part in a fantastic outdoor teambuilding day. Our focus was on developing team skills such as encouraging one another, listening to one another, resilience and perseverance. We had the chance to take part in a range of exciting activities including den building, making tools, making fires and even enjoying food that had been cooked on our outdoor fire. It was a really valuable day where we learnt how to work together to achieve our best. Well done St. Patrick’s!

In St Therese Class this week, we have been learning about God's covenants. We have seen how God remembered his promises to Abraham and sent Moses to lead His people out of Egypt and to a new land. We learned how God spoke to Moses through the burning bush and considered how Moses must have felt at the time.

We designed our own 'virtues' posters, which are now displayed in our class. This is our finished 'faith' poster!

St Nicholas (Nursery/Preschool): Millie

St Francis: (Reception/ Year 1): James

St Bernadette (Year 2): Aoife

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Ella

St Therese (Year 5/6): Rosie

Our award winners will be invited to sit on the Golden Table at lunchtime and enjoy juice!

Team point winners: St John's

Christmas Fayre: Sunday 3rd December

Advent Liturgy in School for Families: Wednesday 6th December, 9:10am

Christmas Jumper Day (in support of Martin House): Friday 8th December

Nursery / Preschool Nativity (in school, for families): Thurs 14th Dec, 10am

Reception/ Y1/ Y2 Nativity (in school, for families): Thurs 14th Dec, 2:20pm

Reception/ Y1/ Y2 Nativity (in school, for families): Thurs 14th Dec, 6pm (children at school for 5:30pm)

KS2 Christmas Carol Concert (in Church, for families): Thurs 21st Dec, 6pm

Firstly, a big THANK YOU to all the children, staff and families for taking part in 'quirky hair day' last week. It was great to see so many colourful and creative styles. The donations of chocolates and bottles was also very appreciated and really helped to stock our tombola and bottle hoopla games!

The day of the Fayre is fast approaching and we hope to see all of our families coming along to have some festive fun and support our lovely school.

Any donations for the cake stall are welcomed (they don't have to be home baked!). These can be dropped in school next Friday, or even to school on the morning of the Fayre. If you have any spare time to help set up/clear away, help out on a stall, please do let us know.

Look out for more updates on our Facebook page or e-mail us: friendsofstjotad@gmail.com

Thank you for all your shout outs - our staff love when you take the time to write such kind and reaffirming words! Use the button below if you'd like to give someone 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

Families (and children of all ages) are warmly welcomed to celebrate Mass at our parish Church:

St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Tadcaster.

Mass times are as follows:

SUNDAY Mass 9am

WEDNESDAY Mass 10am

FRIDAY Mass 10am

Please visit the Church website for further details:

https://www.stjosephstadcaster.org.uk/