St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

We have enjoyed another fantastic week in school.

Our whole school weekly Mass at Church on Wednesday was, as always, heartening to be a part of. Our children are super at Mass responses now, and engage so beautifully!

It's such a privilege to know that we took the parishioner count in Mass from 7 to 107!

Transition Day across school on Thursday was a huge success. Mr Craigen was so impressed with the current year 4s that he awarded them a Star of Week Award in Celebration Assembly!

We are all very excited already about next year.

Have a lovely weekend.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Our current virtue is service. We have been exploring the role that Jesus had on Earth, and how He taught us to serve others. There is a real joy and sense of fulfilment we can achieve through service, and we have been looking for ways we can serve this week.

One of our amazing children sent me photos of the hedgehog she rescued from her garden. Ruby the Hedgehog was taken to the hedgehog hospital and is now recovered enough to be set free. What a wonderful example of service!

Well done to our Mini Vinnies, who had the fabulous idea of organising a Fun Run to raise money this week! They made posters, created super costumes, set up an obstacle-filled course and sold spectator tickets! We thoroughly enjoyed cheering them on and are proud of the £14.75 they raised.

Last week, St Therese enjoyed a special DT-focused Biscuit Week! They taste-tested other biscuits; designed their own creations in teams; then baked and decorated their delicious biscuits!

On Thursday, our children and staff across school moved into their new classes, in readiness for September! The children enjoyed fun activities and spent some time getting to know their new classmates / teachers / TAs!

We are noticing that our children don't read at home as often as we would like.

Reading at home is ESSENTIAL for children to make progress in school and beyond!

Sharing a book with your child for 20 mins each day exposes them to 1.8 million words a year!

Several of our children have taken part in charity events in their own time recently. We are so proud of our children and the way they show love and compassion to others! Well done, guys!

Whole School Attendance this week: 92.6%

Our attendance this week is below National Average.

Please try to remember that any time out of school has an impact on our children's social, pastoral and academic progress.

This week we have been basing our provision on the story of the Ugly Duckling. We have enjoyed making duck masks and pictures of the duck in the pond!

This week we have been very busy and been on 2 trips out! We had a fantastic walk around Tadcaster on Tuesday and finished with a picnic lunch. On Wednesday we also went for a scavenger hunt around Church to look for the different features.

In History, we went for an archaeological dig to uncover clues about the explorer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell. We found different objects in the sand and then wrote down what we thought that told us about her.

This week St.Patrick's Class have been drafting their stories based on the Disney short film, Feast.

We have used alliteration, fronted adverbials, short sentences and dialogue.

We have thought deeply about our characters and their emotions.

During our transition day, the Year 4s and 5s (our new St Therese class for next year!) created their own ‘dots’ based on The Dot by Peter Reynolds, which we have put together to make a fantastic display.

St Nicholas (Nursery): Eliza

St Francis: (Preschool/Reception): Amelia

St Bernadette (Year 1/2): Patience

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Dominique

St Therese (Year 5/6): The Year 4s!

Headteacher's Award: Jack (for demonstrating the virtue of service!)

Reading Raffle Winners: Maddie, Arabella, Olive, Edith, Abi

Team Point Winners: St Mark and St Luke

New Reception Starters Taster Session: Tuesday 9th July, 2:30-3:30pm

New Reception Starters Parents/Carers Meeting: Tuesday 9th July, 3:30-4:30pm

Crucial Crew (St Therese trip): Tuesday 16th July

Whole School End of Year Mass (at Church): Wednesday 17th July, 10am

St Therese End of Year Production: Wednesday 17th July, 6:30pm

End of Year Assembly: Friday 19th July, 9:10am

Picnic on the Field (for whole school, families and friends): Friday 19th July, 12:45pm

School closes for the summer: Friday 19th July, 2pm

Just a reminder that we have LOTS of pre-loved uniform available. PLEASE don't go out and buy new items when we have so much here already! Please send any requests to our email address (below) or our Facebook page. We will also have a uniform stall at the picnic.

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

Please see link below for FEAST activities over the summer leave period:

Website-FEAST-Summer-24-Activities-List-PDF.pdf (northyorkshiretogether.co.uk)

Tadcaster Juniors Football Club are welcoming boys and girls currently in Y1 who are interested in joining our team as we prepare for U7’s football next season.

Training takes place on Saturdays 10am at Manor Fields, Tadcaster.

Contact Anthony Doone if you have any questions.

07738616846/ Anthonydoone@hotmail.com