St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

I can't believe we've come to the end of another half term. With each week, we see our lovely little school going from strength to strength. Have a look below to find out some of the things going on across school this week alone.

My personal highlight was driving home on Thursday, after our school discos, with a smile on my face. The discos highlighted to me the incredible love and support we have within our school community. Our Friends of St Joseph's dedicated so much of their own time into creating a wonderful experience for our children; our staff team stayed and even made it onto the dancefloor, whether the children wanted us to or not(!); our families bought tickets, transported children, and volunteered their time; and our FABULOUS children danced their hearts out!

We are blessed to be part of such a super school.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

On Tuesday, four of our Year 6 Mini Vinnies went to Leeds Cathedral to celebrate the Good Shepherd Appeal with lots of other schools from our Diocese! We presented the Bishop with our fundraising donation. Well done for being super representatives of our school.

Last night, we held two school discos! These were really well-attended and the children had so much fun! We are incredibly grateful to our Friends of St Joseph's, who put lots of their own time and energy into organising and running these super events for our children. Roll on next year's discos... !

We had two days of Bikeability workshops for our Year 6s this week. The Yorkshire weather, true to form, was horrendous! This didn't stop our children getting stuck in and soldiering on through the torrential rain! The instructors mentioned several times how wonderfully-behaved and engaged all of our children are. You make us very proud, children!

Yesterday, our Mini Vinnies had a visit from members of the 1833 SVP, who helped them bake scones, ready for today's cream tea. The children enjoyed learning about another facet of the SVP Society, and how we are linked to a much bigger organisation.

Today, our Mini Vinnies celebrated Mass at St Joseph's Church, and then served tea and their homemade scones to the local parishioners. Our children did themselves proud - serving with a smile and even staying to do the washing up!

Parishioners wanted to donate and we raised £72! At their next meeting, the Mini Vinnies will discuss how they would like to use this money to further improve the faith-life of our school.

A huge thank you to the 1833 SVP and Miss Savelli for organising such a wonderful experience for our children and local community.

We have dedicated a page on our website to share our 'well-being' strategies with families. Please have a look to see some of the ways we promote health and well-being within our school!

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School & Nursery - Well-being (st-josephs-tadcaster.n-yorks.sch.uk)

Whole School Attendance this week: 92.7%

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

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

As part of our Cinderella Week, our two-year-olds have made pasta necklaces! They showed good concentration, creativity and hand-eye coordination. This activity also gave us a great opportunity to focus on our colour recognition and counting skills.

Well done, St Nicholas!

This half term in PE, St Francis have enjoyed learning different games to apply their skills including the Mr Men Game, Crocodile, domes and dishes and tidy the garden.

We've been thinking this week a lot about our virtue of kindness and done a lot of pair activities. We have really enjoyed working together on lots of different things including writing biographies for each other on the chromebooks and playing the glockenspiels in pairs!

We have been super busy in St. Patrick's Class this week. We have been finishing off our Holiday Brochure persuasive writing. We have considered how to entice people to visit the island of Sicily. We used snappy sub-heading, catchy slogans and really thought about persuasive language.

We have also been learning about how muscles work in our body and recapping on skeletons ( human and animal) and how to stay healthy with focusing in on nutritional values.

St Therese Class have been deepening their understanding of volume and capacity this week. We learned to calculate the volume of cuboids, estimate volume of objects, and to use what we knew to work out the capacity of different containers.

St Nicholas (Nursery): Theo S

St Francis: (Preschool/Reception): Max

St Bernadette (Year 1/2): Bea

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Arabella

St Therese (Year 5/6): Sophie and Grace

Headteacher's Award: Felicity

Reading Raffle Winners: Owen, Bella, Maddie, Charlotte T, Abigail

Team Point Winners: St Matthew

St Therese Residential Trip (Robinwood): Mon 3rd- Wed 5th June

Skipping School Workshops (Reception-Y6): Thursday 6th June, am

Year 5/6 Cricket Workshop: Thursday 6th June, pm

Bee-keeping talk in St Francis: Friday 7th June, pm

St Therese Swimming Festival: Tuesday 11th June, pm

Cricket Tournament: Thursday 13th June (10-2)

Beanbag Rounders Tournament: Thursday 20th June, pm

Year 6 Confirmation: Thursday 20th June, 7pm

Sports Day: 21st June (afternoon)

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

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

Leavers' Assembly: Friday 19th July, 2:30pm

Yesterday’s disco was a huge success! It was so good to see everyone having a great time- including the parents and teachers 🕺💃🤩This was the first disco we have held so big thanks to all for their support. We will definitely be planning another disco!

After half term there will be more fun Friends of St Joseph’s events coming up, so watch this space for more information!

As ever we are always welcoming of any parents/carers who want to join us.

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

Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) Thu 30 May, 2.30pm

After Po is tapped to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace, he needs to find and train a new Dragon Warrior, while a wicked sorceress plans to re-summon all the master villains whom Po has vanquished to the spirit realm.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_inKs4eeHiI Tickets/info - https://helmsleyarts.co.uk/whats-on/kung-fu-panda-4 Hoglets

Theatre - The Badger and the Coins Sun 2 June, 2.30pm

An original Hoglets play, based on a Japanese folk tale. “When Mother Earth created the humble Badger, he gave it a very special gift. Badgers… are shapeshifters! ” When an old man rescues a mysterious Badger, it triggers an amazing journey. Join Hoglets Theatre for an original tale about love, courage, and the belief that even the most unexpected companions can bring magic into our world. Powered by original song, outrageous characters, beautiful hand-made puppets and Hoglet’s famous energy and creativity, this is a beautiful show for pre-school and primary-aged children.

Tickets/info - https://helmsleyarts.co.uk/whats-on/hoglets-theatre-the-badger-and-the-coins Hoglets

Theatre - Shadow Puppet Workshop Sun 2 June, 3.30pm

After enjoying The Badger and the Coins, join Gemma from Hoglets Theatre to create your own shadow puppet inspired by the show. We'll be looking at shadow and light, colour and movement to create your own shadow creature. Your puppet will then take its place on the stage as we use your characters to create a short, devised piece of shadow puppetry to show back to your big people.

Tickets/info - https://helmsleyarts.co.uk/whats-on/hoglets-theatre-shadow-puppet-workshop

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