St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Wow - we're halfway through the school year already! I would like to take a moment to thank our amazing staff, who put in so much time and effort to ensure our children get the very best care and education in our school!

We were treated to a little bit of snow this week, which meant we happily headed outside to have a play! Although it didn't settle, we thoroughly enjoyed feeling the snow fall on us.

As we approach the half term holiday, we wish you all a happy and peaceful break. We look forward to seeing our fantastic children again, refreshed and ready to learn, on Monday 19th February!

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

At St Joseph's, we encourage our children to live by our virtues, both inside and outside of our school setting.

It was wonderful to receive a message from a family this week, to share how Caitlin had visited Lincoln Cathedral at the weekend, and wrote a special prayer dedication to her school family.

It made my day - well done, Caitlin, for showing the virtues of Love and Thankfulness!

My apologies - the time of the First Holy Communion on Sunday 29th February is 9am. Please ignore the earlier misprint.

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

Lacey-May, Owen, Ronnie, Felicity, Arabella

We were sad this week to say goodbye to Miss Macmillan, who has been teaching in St Francis since last year. She's been a wonderful member of our St Joseph's family and we are grateful for her hard work. Hopefully, she will come back as a supply teacher here on occasion!

After half term, we are happy to be welcoming Miss Gill back from her maternity leave, to teach on Mondays and Tuesdays in St Francis! We're all looking forward to having you back!

We've celebrated Other Faiths Week across our school this week. Our chosen religion to explore was Islam. Each class investigated the origins and beliefs of Islam. We have lots of exciting learning to show you below... !

Next Wednesday (14th Feb) is Ash Wednesday. Ordinarily, we would take the children to a special Mass but obviously the day falls in the school holidays this year. If you would like to take your child to Mass, there are services at St. Joseph’s Church at 10.00am and St. Edward’s Church at 7.00pm.

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A huge congratulations to our latest diamond award winner! This week, we wanted to celebrate Dalton for always working incredibly hard during his phonics sessions! I was so impressed that a preschool child was able to spot rhyming words! Well done, Dalton!

Do you have any old trousers, pants and socks, suitable for our preschool/reception children in St Francis?

Our children love to get muddy and we go out in all weathers - this does mean we end up having to change clothes and having a bank of spare clothing would be really useful!

If so, please drop them off in the office, send them in with your child or leave them with me on the gates in a morning. Thank you in advance!

This time of year can be especially hard after the expense of Christmas and during the cold months. The Foodbank is here for anyone that is struggling to afford the essentials, not just food but gas and electricity etc.

Wetherby Foodbank are here to help.

See the poster below for further information and details on how to contact them.

We have been given a 50% discount code for our families to enjoy over February half term!

Please see the attached leaflets for details.

Whole School Attendance this week: 92.8%

We are currently below National Average 94.3(%)

Congratulations to St Bernadette's for having the best attendance this week!

A reminder to parents and carers: School attendance directly affects your child’s academic success and relationships with their classmates

Our St Nicholas children have continued learning about Tommy Two this week. These two little superstars did some super practice in forming the digits 1 and 2!

As part of our work on Islam this week. We learnt that the Qu’ran is their special book. We created our own special books.

In RE, we have enjoyed learning all about Islam in our other faiths week! We designed prayer mats with Islamic symbols on.

This week in St Patrick's class we read a factual book about the journey of water. The book was set out with pictures and had rhymes throughout which made the facts easy to listen to. Did you know that humans are 70% water?! We then made a diagram of the water cycle and wrote about the water cycle process.

In history this week, we considered what historical evidence we could use to learn about life for evacuees during WW2. We then discussed what evidence we could use to answer different questions about them, and looked at some photographs, letters and recounts to learn more about what is like to be an evacuee.

St Nicholas (Nursery): Eliza

St Francis: (Preschool/Reception): Louie

St Bernadette (Year 1/2): Charlotte B

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Ella

St Therese (Year 5/6): Lottie

Headteacher's Award: Hannah

Team point winners: St Mark

Pre-loved uniform sale in the playground: Friday 23rd February, 3:30pm

FoJS Treat Friday: Friday 23rd February, 3:30pm

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

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

Our treat Friday for February will be the first week back after half term (Friday 23rd) . This month we will have pop it toys and, back by popular demand, popcorn cones!

As Spring is around the corner (hurray!) and we are already half-way through the school year, there will also be a pre-loved uniform stall alongside Treat Friday on 23rd February. There are lots of items and sizes available, all at low costs. So please do come along and stock up at bargain prices!

Please see the poster below for full details.

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.

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!

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