St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Wow - what a fantastic first term we've had! It's been a very long one but we've packed it full of exciting events and engaging learning.

I hope you all have a blessed, peaceful (who am I kidding?!) and happy Christmas. It is well-deserved!

We've had several new families join us in the past few weeks, and would like to say how welcome you are to our super school!

Thank you, everyone, for your support this term. It's been such a genuine pleasure getting to know our amazing children and their lovely families. On a personal note, you've made my first term at St Joseph's a really happy one and I couldn't have asked for a kinder or more supportive group of families.

I'm sure the rest of year will see our school going from strength to strength as we continue to...

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

On Thursday evening, we celebrated in Church with a beautiful carol concert, led by our KS2 children. It was a wonderful evening, and our children did us proud. Thank you to all the families who came along to celebrate with us!

Well done to the children who have had 100% attendance this term! They received a certificate in assembly and are invited to sit on our Golden Table this lunchtime.

We will give out attendance certificates at the end of each term so if you missed out this time, don't worry - you can hopefully earn one next term!

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

Please see below for other upcoming dates.

A huge congratulations to this superstar for earning a Diamond Award this week! Mr Craigen has been thoroughly impressed with your fantastic attitude to learning all term. Well done!

What an amazing term! The governors would like to say a huge thank you to all of the St Joseph’s community for their work and contributions to the school since September.

Our thanks go to Mrs Ronicle for her leadership and dedication to our staff and families as we have worked through a very long term. We are most grateful to all of the staff who have shown great commitment to our pupils - ensuring that learning is both high quality and fun! We have also been delighted to see the establishment of the ‘Friends of St Joseph’s’ group and we hope this will continue flourish in 2024.

Thank you to all the families who have supported the school by attending assemblies, events, open classrooms, nativities and carol services - it has been a busy term. The AC wish everyone a joyous and peaceful Christmas.

Families (with children of all ages) are warmly welcomed at St Joseph's Church, Tadcaster. Please see below for the special Masses over the Christmas period. All Masses are also livestreamed.

Further details can be found on their website: www.stjosephstadcaster.org.uk

We have enjoyed lots of festivity in Nursery and Preschool this week! We'd like to give a special mention to our St Nicholas Star of the Week, Anusara, who showed courage when attending Nursery without his twin sister this week. Well done, Anusara!

St Francis have been busy designing, cutting, decorating, sewing and evaluating their Christmas stockings. They have worked very hard on them.

In RE, we spent time writing prayers and reflecting on how we can best prepare for Christmas. We then centred our class worship around it. It was a much needed quiet time in the midst of the crazy lead-up to Christmas!

St. Patrick's have had a busy week preparing for the Christmas Carol service, making cards, solving Christmas maths problems and making their Trojan horses linked with our work on Ancient Greece in DT.

In the run-up to Christmas, St Therese Class made pop-up Christmas cards to show the real meaning of Christmas.

St Nicholas (Nursery/Preschool): Anusara

St Francis: (Reception/ Year 1): Beatrice

St Bernadette (Year 2): Caspian

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Favour

St Therese (Year 5/6): Isla

Headteacher's Award: Isla

Team point winners: St John

Training Day (school and nursery closed to all pupils): Monday 8th Jan

School and Nursery reopen for 2024: Tuesday 9th Jan

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

Friends of St Joseph's would like to wish you all a very happy christmas! As a newly formed group of parents we have appreciated all your support this term from donations for the fayre to raffle ticket sales which in turn has allowed us to give the children some little festive treats in the last few weeks.

We have some exciting events planned for 2024. The first of which will be the start of 'Treat Fridays'. These will be the last Friday of every month so for January will be Friday 26th after school in the playground. Keep an eye out in the newsletter or the Facebook page for other news and updates.

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

FEAST is open to all children and young people across North Yorkshire. Places on these school holiday activities are free to eligible children and young people. Learn more about who is eligible for a free place in our Frequently Asked Questions.