St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

I owe a huge thank you to our children, families and staff this week! It's been very busy with lots of events throughout school, and I have LOVED seeing everyone pull together as team, even when we are all feeling a little tired (adults too!) as we approach the half term holiday.

You should have received a letter today about the upcoming special Christmas Panto treat! We're very excited here in school, and are pleased we have been able to heavily subsidise the cost of the trip to hopefully make it affordable for families.

Quick reminder that today was our final Celebration Assembly of the half term, as next Friday is a training day and school is closed to children.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Our virtue this week continues to be: Citizenship

If your child shows citizenship at home, please let me know, so we can celebrate this in school too.

On Thursday, we held our settling in reviews for parents/carers. Thank you for coming along to support us - we know that our children's education significantly benefits from working together with a strong home-school partnership. If your child is in St Therese, we will contact you when we have organised a new date.

Thank you for coming along to our book fair in school this week. There were lots of lovely books and stationery items on sale. We must give a big shout out to Sophie, Edward and Lily, who gave up their time after school to man the stall for us!

Thank you so much to PCSO Joe Spooner, who came into school to deliver a very informative assembly on Road Safety this week. Remember, as the nights get darker earlier, it's important to stay visible with reflective stickers or bike lights!

After our Mini Vinnies kindness walk last week, we have received an email and a lovely card from two Tadcaster residents, who wanted to thank us for brightening their days! Well done for sharing kindness and God's love around Tadcaster, Mini Vinnies!

Just a reminder that dogs are not permitted on school grounds (even the gorgeous little fluffy ones!). This is for the safety of our children and MUST be adhered to please.

On Sunday 17th November, Mrs Ronicle (Headteacher) and Laura Cooper (Chair of FoSJ) are running the Tad10!

It's a 10 mile route, that passes our lovely school.

Cake and refreshments will be served outside school, and we hope you will come to cheer us on!

Any donations, however small, will be gratefully received. Funds raised will be split between our Friends of St Joseph's and St Leonard's Hospice.

The hospice holds a special place for us, as two of our families lost their dads last year, and the hospice provided such love and care to both families in a difficult time.

Please have a look at our fundraising page and feel free to make a little donation if you are able.

More importantly, PLEASE come to cheer us on outside school during the run - we'll likely be in need of your support and smiley faces!

Crowdfunding to support our St Joseph's community on JustGiving

Adult Learning North Yorkshire is offering a free online course, 'Supporting Your Child with Key Stage 2 Maths'.

Starting on Monday, 11th November, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, this 6-week course is designed for parents and caregivers who wish to enhance their child’s mathematical skills while also improving their own understanding of the subject.

Participants will:

• Explore the current Key Stage 2 maths curriculum.
• Learn effective strategies to support their child's learning.
• Engage with other parents in a collaborative environment.

To enrol, please visit the link: https://tinyurl.com/KeyStage2Maths11

Contact Email: adultlearningservice@northyorks.gov.uk

Whole School Attendance this week: 93.09%

This week, our attendance is below National Average.

As you know, we love having our children in school and really hope you can support us in getting them to attend as often as possible.

Have a look at this week's information about fire safety:

Linking in with our focus book, 'Room on the Broom', the children in St Nicholas have enjoyed playing a lotto game! We found the characters from the story and matched them on our cards. We used good concentration and hand eye co-ordination to complete the game!

Hairy Maclary (from Donaldson's dairy) has been visiting this week, along with lots of learning about dogs and creative representations of different types of dogs. We have also been playing lots of number games to improve our recognition of numerals and 1-1 correspondence. We decorated biscuits - selecting the correct number of chocolate chips and marshmallows!

In guided reading this week, we have been answering prediction and vocabulary questions based on a picture! We came up with a range of great answers and showed super focus to journal our descriptive words.

In Computing, we have been thinking about the internet and where content comes from. We thought about how some content is unreliable and not true. We then started making our own scams with edited pictures and a false advert to prove how easy it was to lie on the internet.

On Wednesday, St Therese were treated to a whole day of Forest School! Their learning included making popcorn over their own fires, and a team-building and communication game, where children had to create stretchers to carry their 'patients'!

St Nicholas (Nursery): Eliza

St Francis (Preschool/Reception): Ava

St Bernadette (Y1/2): Emily

St Patrick (Y3/4): All of St Patrick's Class!

St Therese (Y5/6): Theo

Reading Raffle Winners: Della, Zack, Abigail, Ella Y, Owen

Headteacher's Award: Charlotte B

Team Point Winners: St Mark and St Luke

Forest School (St Patrick and St Therese): Wednesday 24th October

Staff Training Day (school closed to pupils): Friday 25th October

Forest School (St Patrick and St Therese): Wednesday 13th November

Forest School (St Patrick and St Therese): Wednesday 27th November

Forest School (St Patrick and St Therese): Wednesday 11th December

Young Voices Concert (Sheffield Arena): Wednesday 8th January

A final shout out for the Glow Disco next Thursday! Deadline for tickets is the end of the day on Monday. We are all looking forward to getting our dancing shoes on and our glow sticks will be ready!

The notice board in the playground now has our contact details on, along with upcoming events.

After half term, plans for the Xmas Fair will be steaming ahead, so any support is welcomed.

Our email address is: friendsofstjotad@gmail.com

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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; your child's class teacher at the end of the day; or our school admin team at the front entrance or via phone/email.

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