St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

I think the highlight of my week was taking St Patrick's Class to our weekly class Mass in Church and then watching the Year 3 children making their First Reconciliation. It was a precious moment and I felt so privileged to have been a part of this. Our children were fantastic representatives of St Joseph's and it was wonderful to see their reverence and respect on this special day.

Please keep the Year 3 children in your prayers.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Last week, our School Council went out into the playground and asked all of our children to describe our school in three words. They wrote down responses and we created a word cloud. We are delighted to see the way our children view our school - what lovely feedback!

We are so proud of our Year 3 children, who made their first reconciliation this week, with Father Sean, in Church. It is an important sacrament and helps develop the children's relationship with God.

Thank you to those families that joined us in tidying up Tadcaster last weekend. It is wonderful to see children engaging so happily in an act of service for our local community.

We have a request... St Francis Class need some large plant pots/troughs for our garden if anyone has any that they don't need! We have lots of little pots but need some bigger ones for our vegetable garden. Any donations would be gratefully received!

As part of our PSHCE and Science learning, we organised for Catholic Care to visit school and lead healthy eating workshops in classes this week. The children learned about different food types, portion sizes, how to eat a balanced diet and about nutritional traffic lights!

Thank you to Ingrid - our children were fascinated - and hopefully, this will lead to us all eating more healthily!

Whole School Attendance this week: 95.6%

Well done for another week of improved attendance. Thank you for your support.

We still have some way to go, to ensure the best for our children! Please have a look at the picture attached, to see how much difference it makes to be on time for school each day.

As part of our RE we have been learning about new life, celebrating the new life of Jesus. The baby animals and the buds are signs of new life. The children have been finger-painting signs of new life.

Children in St Francis had an amazing time at the Fire Station on Tuesday. We found out about the jobs that they do, had a tour of a fire engine, went inside the fire engine, sprayed the hose pipe and heard the sirens.

Have a wander over to our Twitter/Facebook pages to see more photos!

This week, we celebrated the feast day of our class saint - St Bernadette! We spent the afternoon snacking on biscuits, listening to the story, making rosary bracelets and creating a class poster.

This week, St. Patrick's Class enjoyed a workshop led by a nutritional advisor from Catholic Care. The session explored lots of practical ways to eat healthily! We learnt about portion sizes, the importance of drinking lots of water and food traffic lights.

This week in RE, we acted out the Ascension: Jesus leaving the disciples and going up to heaven. There were some interesting approaches to demonstrating this! We had fun and learned more about the Ascension.

St Nicholas (Nursery): Peggy

St Francis: (Preschool/Reception): Amelia

St Bernadette (Year 1/2): Caspian

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Skye

St Therese (Year 5/6): Rosie

Headteacher's Award (for the virtue of perseverance): Abi

Reading Raffle Winners: Patience, Bea, George A, Matilda S, Ella Y

Team Point Winners: St John

FoJS Treat Friday (fruit-themed): 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

Year 6 Confirmation: Thursday 20th June, 7pm

The Council is currently consulting on changes to the North Yorkshire (NY) Home to School Travel Policy. This is available via the NY website Home to school travel policy - consultation | North Yorkshire Council

The deadline for the consultation including any responses is 26th April 2024

We are excited to try a slightly healthier (but still fun!) treat Friday next week, and are very grateful for the fresh fruit that a local supermarket has donated to us. There will still be the usual pop corn on offer too so remember to bring those 50p's!

Our email address is: friendsofstjotad@gmail.com

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