St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Happy New Year!

We have thoroughly enjoyed welcoming our children back into school this week! It has been heartening to see so many children skipping through the school gates, excited about their return. There has been lots of wonderful, exciting learning taking place across school and we look forward to seeing more of this as the year progresses.

We've already received several staff shout-outs this week and I am particularly grateful for these. Teaching is not an easy job but making a difference in children's lives makes it the best job in the world! It's great to be able to share with staff the positive impact they are having on our children.

Thank you for supporting and celebrating our staff!

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

As you will be aware, we wrote to you on Wednesday evening to inform you of adjustments we are making to some of our classes.

As of next week, the structure will take the following form:

• St Nicholas (2 year olds): Ms Nihill, Ms Black

• St Francis (Preschool and Reception): Mrs Tucker / Miss MacMillan, Miss Dawson, Ms Banks, Mrs Buchanan

• St Bernadette (Years 1 and 2): Miss Savelli, Mrs Galley

• St Patrick and St Therese will remain unchanged.

We appreciate your support and know you will understand that we are working hard to provide education of the highest standards for all of our children.

We are beginning a new numeracy scheme in our Early Years (nursery, preschool and reception)!

Ten Town comes highly recommended by other local primary schools.

If you would like to support your child using the scheme at home, we have a discount code for families. Please see the flyer.

Please pass this on to anyone you know whose child is starting reception in September, 2024. If you need any support, please contact our office, who are always happy to help!

The children who have been involved in the sacramental preparation sessions will receive their First Holy Communion at Mass on:

Sunday 25th Feb, 10am, St Joseph's Church

We are excited about our new after school club, beginning next Monday. We still have a small number of places available if you'd like to book!

As usual, if your child receives Pupil Premium, we are happy to offer this club for free. If you're not sure if your child is eligible for Pupil Premium, please do contact our office, who can give you the form to complete.

This week the children have been talking about Christmas and on our working wall they have drawn pictures of something they got for Christmas.

St Francis had an amazing time using the apparatus in gymnastics. The children moved over, under and through the apparatus, practised their balancing, jumps and ways of travelling.

We have wasted no time in getting stuck right back into exciting learning. To start our DT topic, we looked at different puppets and discussed what we liked and didn't like about the different types.

In RE this week we have been learning about the Greatest Commandment. Jesus told us that the most important rule to live by is to 'love God and love one another'. We thought about what our world would look like if everyone followed this rule.

This week, we have been learning about Scott's journey to the South Pole. On Tuesday, we had our own Antarctic experience in the playground: boarding the Terra Nova, unloading and laying out supplies, even spending a bit of time in a tent for shelter (which did blow away several times!). We are now going to write letters from Scott about his experiences.

St Nicholas (Nursery/Preschool): Theo

St Francis: (Reception/ Year 1): Freya

St Bernadette (Year 2): Abigail

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Eddie

St Therese (Year 5/6): Matilda S

Headteacher's Award: Arabella

Team point winners: St John

First Holy Communion (At St Joseph's Church): Sunday 25th Feb, 10am

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

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

We are delighted to share with you that the Christmas Fayre and raffle raised a total of £1300!

This is an amazing amount and puts us in a great place to be able to fund a sound system for the hall as well as other treats through the year. A HUGE THANK YOU to you all for supporting with this.

If any of you are having a new year sort out please can we ask for any donations of outgrown christmas jumpers or tops. We are hoping to to hold a pre-loved christmas wear stall next year so any donations welcome. There will be a box in the office for the rest of the January.

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