St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

We have had such a super Positive Psychology Week across our school and nursery!

I have loved wandering into classrooms and seeing such fabulous learning about how to:

recognise our feelings;

manage our reactions to emotions;

contribute positively to the mental health of ourselves and others;

and keep ourselves healthy in every sense!

Have a lovely weekend.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

On Thursday, our Mini Vinnies held a cookie sale to raise money for the Good Shepherd Appeal. We had queues the length of the playground and they raised £15! We love how our Mini Vinnies live out the virtue of charity in our school.

They will hold another cookie sale this Thursday, so don't forget your 10p!

Think about ways you can encourage your children to give to charity at home too. This doesn't need to be money - we can donate old clothes or toys, or simply give our time.

We do have significant crowds of visitors already, but just a reminder that all families and friends of children in our Preschool (3 years +) and School are welcome to attend our Celebration Assemblies held every Friday, just after 9am. Refreshments are offered, courtesy of the Friends of St Joseph's

This week, we held a TimesTable Rockstars CLASS BATTLE!

It's been epic, and the winning class was changing throughout the week!

Totals were added up this morning and the final winners were announced..

Well done to St Bernadette's! They will receive an EXTRA BREAKTIME!

All children have been given a login and these will have been sent home, or stuck in the back of children's planners. Please continue to use this super learning game at home!

We have enjoyed a fantastic Positive Psychology Week across school!

Please ask your child to talk about their understanding of mental health, and have a look through the learning they have brought home this week!

Below, we are signposting families to resources aimed at how parents/carers can keep the conversations going about well-being and mental health.

Thank you to the Year 5/6 children who represented our school so beautifully in a local netball tournament this week.

We are delighted to announce that we took 2nd place!

Thank you to Ms Amor for taking the children and well done to the whole team!

We appreciate how overwhelming it can feel to keep an eye on what our little ones are up to online. Recently, though, we have had some reports of unkindness from some of our children, who have been using online platforms, such as Whatsapp.

Online safety is part of our curriculum and we recently invited PC Spooner into school to hold an informative assembly for our children about staying safe online. We encourage you to set age-appropriate restrictions on your children's devices and to check their activity frequently.

We have attached a guide you may find helpful!

Please join us to help keep our community tidy!

We are gathering as a school to support our local area on Saturday 13th April.

Please bring friends and family and join us there!

Our Mini Vinnies have asked if they can host an Easter Showcase, with dance, drama and song, to retell the story of Easter!

Details are still being finalised but save the date:

Next Friday, straight after Celebration Assembly!

You should have received information from us about our wraparound care. We are making some changes to the way sessions are booked in our Breakfast Club and Playhub. Please note, we are no longer accepting ad-hoc bookings. If you have any queries, or didn't receive the information, please contact our office, who will be happy to help!

Whole School Attendance this week: 95.92%

Well done!

This week, we have been above National Average!

Our Number of the Fortnight in St Nicholas, is Freddie Four! Linking in with Freddie Four, we have been making square and rectangular shortbread. Yum!

We loved being in our outdoor area. This week, children in St Francis have continued to explore the theme of pirates and make large constructions of pirate ships, incorporating mark making. We have used Captain Pugwash as a stimulus and thought about what monsters we might see from our ships. It has been a pleasure to see the children's imaginations in action.

St Bernadette's have loved Positive Psychology week! We decorated Cups of Compliments with our names and have been writing little compliments to our classmates all week. It has been really lovely reading all the kind things we have to say about each other.

This week we have been doing lots of fun activities around positive psychology and wellbeing. We created dances that expressed different emotions, we used the computers to create wellbeing posters and we made positive affirmation chatterboxes to pick us up when we are feeling down. This colourful creation is a great example of one of our chatterboxes which include phrases like: I am special.

During Positive Psychology Week, we learned about the difference positive thinking can have on our lives; how we can choose to look for opportunities, rather than focussing on disappointments. We thought about activities that we could do to calm ourselves, or to bring up our positivity levels. We started our Happy Diaries, wrote nice comments to each other, and created some lovely artwork.

St Nicholas (Nursery): Theo

St Francis: (Preschool/Reception): Ava

St Bernadette (Year 1/2): Lily

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Lacey-May

St Therese (Year 5/6): Tilly

Headteacher's Award, for showing the virtue of Charity: Our Mini Vinnies

Reading Raffle Winners: Zara, Caspian, Maddie, Jessica, Grace

Team Point Winners: St Mark

TimesTable Rockstars Class Battle Award: St Bernadette's

Mini Vinnies Easter Showcase: Friday 22nd March, after Celebration Assembly

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 May

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

We are looking forward to an Easter-themed Treat Friday next week, so please do remember to bring some change.

At the start of the summer term we will be organising the school disco. As a bigger event, we will be looking for extra volunteers for this , so get in touch if you are available. We are hoping this will be as much fun for the adults as it will be for the children!

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

Have a look at the resources below, aimed at how parents/carers can keep the conversations going about well-being and mental health:

cmhw-24-top-tips-for-families.pdf (childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk)

Place2Be: Parenting Smart: My child is feeling sad or low

Place2Be: Parenting Smart: Raising a resilient child

Place2Be: Parenting Smart: My child is anxious

Place2Be: Parenting Smart: Helping your child develop talents

How to Talk to Your Child about Mental Health | YoungMinds

Parents' Guide to Looking After Your Mental Health | YoungMinds

For children - Recovery College Online

PowerPoint Presentation (actionforhappiness.org)

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