St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

In such a busy environment, I try hard to take moments of quiet to reflect on our school journey. This week, I was able to spend some time with St Bernadette's Class in our weekly Mass - this allowed me an opportunity to consider all the fantastic things we have been able to offer our children and families. This week, we have held...

• two school open days;
• a class trip to take donations to the local foodbank project;
• a welcome liturgy for Reception families and their Y6 buddies;
• a whole school celebration assembly for families;
• class library trips;
• swimming sessions;
• whole school singing liturgy;
• whole school guided meditation;
• a class Mass in our parish Church;
• and a KS2 cross-country event at Sherburn High!

Wow! This is on top of all the fabulous learning going on in our classrooms and throughout school as usual too. Feeling very proud of St Joseph's right now!

Thank you for all your support in being able to offer all of these amazing experiences for our children, so that together we can...

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

We're delighted to have launched our new Weekly Class Masses! Each Wednesday, a different class will have the privilege of celebrating Mass at our local parish Church.

This week, St Bernadette's Class attended Mass. We were very proud of the way they represented our school and several parishioners noted how beautifully and reverently our children had behaved.

On Monday, St Therese's Class took our Harvest Festival donations down to The Barn in Tadcaster. The Barn are working in partnership with Wetherby Foodbank, to help local people in crisis.

Please find out more about their fantastic work, and ways you can support them, using the following link:

Wetherby & District Foodbank | Helping Local People in Crisis

On Wednesday, we held a lovely celebration to welcome our new Reception children into our St Joseph's School Family!

Our children, supported by their Year 6 buddies, were given a blessing by our parish priest, Father Sean, and given a special candle, which they will take home.

It was a beautiful liturgy and we are delighted to be welcoming our new children and their families to our school!

On Thursday afternoon, our KS2 children went to Sherburn High School to participate in a cross-country event for local schools.

It was a fun, exhilarating event! Well done to all of our children for completing the run! We even managed to bag a medal!

On Wednesday, we followed our children's curiosity, which led us to investigating the effects of hot or cold water on a pine cone! Ask your child what happened in the different water temperatures!

We have been investigating our senses. This week we were learning about the sense of taste and exploring the taste of different items. We thought of ways to describe the foods…including the sour lemon!

In RE, we looked at this model of our world and considered ways in which it could be improved by us taking care of our world. We thought of many different ways to help such as not littering or watering flowers and made a poster to raise awareness to others about it.

In St Patrick's Class this week, we have continued to develop our sketching skills in Art.

Continuing our still life focus, we have been studying and sketching vegetables and plants from our school allotment.

St Therese class became the tomb of Tutankhamun on Monday afternoon. In class, we have been learning about Howard Carter's discovery, and this week we had the opportunity to 'enter' it and see what was inside. We learned about the rooms, the treasures, and the body of Tutankhamun, which was inside layers of sarcophagi and coffins, nesting inside each other like Russian dolls.

Head over to our Twitter account if you would like to see a video of St Therese's singing their Ancient Egyptian Embalming song!

St Nicholas Star of the Week: Sacara

St Francis Star of the Week: Daisy

St Bernadette Star of the Week: Dylan D

St Patrick Star of the Week: Delilah

St Therese Star of the Week: Matilda S

Headteacher's Award : Aoife (this is rolled over from last week, when she was absent!)

Congratulations to all of our award winners, who were invited to sit on the GOLDEN TABLE at lunchtime (and enjoy juice!)

Our current virtue is thankfulness.

In our Virtues worship on Monday, I shared with the children the 'Thanksgivings' bedtime routine I have with my own children at home! Each night, we each list three things we are thankful for from our day, no matter how miserable or mundane the day may have felt. This helps us to remain grateful for all the blessings God has given us, even when it's something as seemingly small as enjoying a cup of tea in peace!

Have a go at trying the Thanksgiving routine at home too and let us know how it goes!

We are holding a welcome 'settling in review' evening on Thursday 9th November. This will be an opportunity to meet your child's class teacher and hear how they are settling into a new school year.

The booking system is not yet open (you will be notified when it is) but you will need to use our Arbor portal to do so. Most of you have already connected with Arbor but if you haven't, you will need to do this ASAP.

Thank you for your continued support!

If you would like to celebrate a member of staff at any point, feel free to 'shout out' using the button below. We will pass your message on to the member of staff to share your thankfulness.

It has been great to see so many families join the new Friends of St Joseph’s Facebook group!

There was a meeting earlier this week to start generating some ideas for stalls and activities for the Christmas Fair on 3rd December! Please do get in touch if you want to offer any time or have any talents to share! There will be lots of opportunities to get involved! Further planning meetings will be announced soon.

As autumn is just round the corner, we will be having a rest from freeze pop Friday. We have been really pleased at how popular it was so thank you for supporting this! After half term, Treat Friday will start with other treats for the end of the week.

https://www.facebook.com/friends.of.st.josephs

We have a number of children and staff with food allergies in school, including allergies to
nuts. Please talk to your children about not sharing any food they bring into school.

All school meals served from our kitchen are nut-free and we request that products with nuts are not brought into school.

Break up for half term holiday: Thursday 26th Oct

Friends of St Joseph's Meeting: Mon 6th November (time and place TBC)

Settling In Review Evening: Thursday 9th November (3:30-6:30pm)

Team Building Outdoor Day (St Therese's Class): Tuesday 14th November

Team Building Outdoor Day (St Patrick's Class): Tuesday 21st November

Christmas Fair: Sunday 3rd December

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@st-josephs-tadcaster.n-yorks.sch.uk); 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. Please note, our class teachers do not use their email addresses or Class Dojo to contact parents/carers/families.

We are a proud member school of the Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust:

https://www.bishopwheelercatholicacademytrust.org/

Email: admin@st-josephs-tadcaster.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: https://www.st-josephs-tadcaster.n-yorks.sch.uk/
Location: Station Road, Tadcaster, UK
Phone: 01937 832344
Twitter: @StJosephsTad

Families (and children of all ages) are warmly welcomed to celebrate Mass at our parish Church:

St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Tadcaster.

Mass times are as follows:

SUNDAY Mass 9am

WEDNESDAY Mass 10am

FRIDAY Mass 10am

Please visit the Church website for further details:

https://www.stjosephstadcaster.org.uk/