St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

We have been working away behind the scenes to start getting things organised for next year and are delighted to be in a position to announce our upcoming class structure. You should have received a letter via email this morning to inform you about our exciting plans. If you don't think you've received this, please contact our office who can resend this or print out a paper copy for you.

We are looking forward to our school Sports Day this afternoon! We couldn't have been more blessed with this lovely sunshine either. Please see below for a snapshot of some of the things going on in school this week, and don't forget to head to our Twitter/Facebook accounts for further videos/photos!

Have a lovely weekend.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

This week, we were delighted to host two nuns from the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal! They led a whole school worship with us, and then visited each class to share their experiences of being nuns and why they chose to dedicate their lives to following Jesus in the way that St Francis of Assisi did. They children were mesmerised by their songs and stories!

On Thursday, our Year 2 children enjoyed a trip to Tockwith Primary School, where they participated in the beanbag rounders tournament! They had a great time and came third!

Some of our Year 6s celebrated their sacrament of confirmation at a special Mass this Thursday evening. Mr Craigen and I were delighted to share this important part of your faith journey!

Thank you to Father Sean for leading a beautiful Mass and to St Edward's Catholic Primary School for providing wonderful readings, songs and prayers.

This week our Year 5s enjoyed a taster day at one of our feeder secondary schools, St John Fisher's Catholic High School in Harrogate. They loved it! See below for more information!

A huge thank you to one of our super parents, Dr Scott, who came in to St Therese this week to extend the children's learning about the human heart!

We are reminding you that our uniform policy states that children have black footwear for school. We are noticing some children arriving in other coloured shoes. If you are having trouble purchasing shoes for your children, please do contact either me or the office and we are always happy to help fund these.

Whole School Attendance this week: 93.3%

Our attendance this week is below National Average, but an improvement on last week!

Thank you for your help in supporting our children to be in school,

where we are able to help them to achieve their best!

This week our focus story is Farmer Duck. The children have been playing a game of matching the mummy farm animals to the baby farm animals.

St Francis have been exploring the features of a Church. We learnt the names of the features including tabernacle and lectern. We then made junk models of Churches, built our own church and used it to role play and made stained glass windows.

In RE this week, we have thought about how and why we can be kind to others. We were given scenarios and had to act out a positive and a negative version. We saw how kindness made such a huge difference!

In St. Patrick's Class, as part of our Being a Christian unit in RE, we discussed things that we already do in school to help others. We thought of other ideas we could carry out too, such as:

Giving to food banks, raising money for charity, litter picking, giving flowers to people and helping the elderly and those in need with their shopping. We made a collage to represent our ideas of Loving God and Others.

On Tuesday, the Year 5s enjoyed a day at St John Fisher's high school, including PE, art and drama, whilst the Year 6s had a great day with Miss Allan and Mrs Ranby. They enjoyed editing their Robinwood recounts and practising for our end of year production!

St Nicholas (Nursery): Theo S

St Francis: (Preschool/Reception): Zara and Louie

St Bernadette (Year 1/2): Ella

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Spencer

St Therese (Year 5/6): Matilda S

Headteacher's Award: Daisy

Reading Raffle Winners: Bea, Hannah, Emily, Toby and Frankie P

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

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

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

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