St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

We have had a number of visitors in school this week, helping to broaden and enrich our children's learning experiences. Not only has this been beneficial to learning, but also thoroughly enjoyable!

I was delighted, after each visit, to find unprompted emails from the visitors, all complimenting our fantastic, polite, engaged and well-behaved children. We are very proud of you, St Joseph's.

Thank you so much for all our your feedback via our families survey. It's great to know how families feel about our school and ways we can improve. I am collating the responses over the weekend and we will report our findings, and actions going forward, in next week's newsletter.

We were honoured to celebrate First Holy Communion with some of our children last Sunday. Thank you to the staff members and governors who attended and to the families who came to celebrate Mass and to support our children. It was a beautiful event.

Have a lovely weekend.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Again, we have been exploring and celebrating the virtue of love across school this week. It's wonderful to see so many children and staff demonstrating the love for one another that Jesus taught us.

When your child shows love at home, please let us know so we can celebrate this in school too.

Next Thursday, 7th March, we are looking forward to celebrating World Book Day!

We are using The Midnight Grocer as a focus book across our classes (Y1-6)

St Francis (Preschool/Reception) will be exploring The Night Pirates

St Nicholas (Nursery) will be focussing on Peace at Last

Children are invited to attend school next Thursday in their pyjamas!

This can include dressing gowns and slippers, if they would like.

See below for further information about The Midnight Grocer:

On Tuesday, we were delighted to welcome the children's author, Brian Beresford, into our school!

His children's book, The Midnight Grocer, is available for families to purchase. Please see the letter emailed to parents/carers on Tuesday, to find details of how to purchase a SIGNED copy, which will be delivered to school in time for World Book Day.

Brian ran a workshop for our Y1-6 children, including live music and storytelling. The children were thoroughly engaged and enjoyed the opportunity to ask their questions to a real life author!

On Wednesday, our classes enjoyed workshops with a local historian from the Tadcaster Historical Society! They compared photos of our community through the ages, to help support their History learning.

We are introducing a Reading Raffle in school! This will begin from next week.

Evidence shows the significant impact that reading has on children's learning and we encourage children to read at home daily.

If a child has read at least 3 times per week (and has this recorded in their reading record/ planner), they will automatically be entered into our weekly Reading Raffle!

Winners announced each week in Celebration Assembly.

Children's mental health is important to us, and we are excited to be launching a Positive Psychology Week across our school and nursery on 11-15th March.

See the newsletter next week for further details!

It was an honour to celebrate some of our children who received the sacrament of Holy Communion for the first time this weekend. Thank you to Father Sean for a beautiful Mass and to the parish of St Joseph's for welcoming us (and even bringing out the posh biscuits!)

Many congratulations to:

Lacey-May, Owen, Ronnie, Felicity, Arabella

Last week, we launched the Eat Them to Defeat Them, healthy eating campaign! Thank you for continuing to support with this at home - we have enjoyed hearing about all the new fruits and vegetables our children are tasting at home!

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.

Whole School Attendance this week: 93.08%

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

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

Painting pig faces to link in with our St Nicholas Number of the Fortnight, Thelma three, and The Three little pigs.

This week we have been learning about Fiona Five. Fiona Five loves to be healthy. We had a choice of 5 fruit to choose from to make a kebab. We used our maths to make number bonds to 5 and when we had too many took some away.

In Science this week we thought about why different animals are suited to different habitats. We tested them out in icy lands, underwater, fields and the desert to help us think about it!

This week in St Patrick's class we thought about how Aladdin would have felt when he was trapped in a dark tunnel. We used freeze frames to show what he would be doing and said what we thought he might be feeling. We then used these ideas to write sentences of our own.

In our maths lessons in St Therese Class, we have been deepening our understanding of angles in shapes. We used skewers and marshmallows to create shapes, whose angles we then measured. We could see how increasing the size of some angles made other angles smaller, but they always added up to the same in total.

St Nicholas (Nursery): Ronnie

St Francis: (Preschool/Reception): Anuki

St Bernadette (Year 1/2): Abi

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Delilah

St Therese (Year 5/6): Felicity and The Whole Class

Headteacher's Award: Teddy

Team point winners: St John

World Book Day: Thursday 7th March

Positive Psychology Week: 11-15th March

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

We hope you enjoyed our pop it and pop corn Friday! Next months treat Friday will be be Easter themed so look out for more details!

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