St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

As you may well know, it has been SATs Week for Year 6 children across the country, but this is not the only exciting thing we've had going on in school this week!

Our children have been demonstrating the virtue of kindness in all sorts of ways, and have made us all so proud to be part of such a super school community.

Have a look below to find further information about some of the wonderful things happening at St Joseph's. There are even more photos and videos on our Twitter/Facebook accounts!

Next week promises to be another busy and exciting week, so please take a moment to have a quick look at the 'upcoming dates' section below.

Well done for another great week, Team St Joseph's!

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

It was wonderful to find some of our younger children praying to Mary on Monday, to ask her to help our Year 6s to do their best in their SATs! Such a great example of the virtue of kindness in action. Thank you, children - you are inspiring!

This morning, our lovely Mini Vinnies went on a Kindness Walk around Tadcaster! The children made tags, with kind words, and brought in their own savings to buy flowers.

We then put the tags on the flowers and gave these to people in our local community.

We saw so many smiles! It was fantastic to know that our children had managed to brighten so many people's days. Well done, Mini Vinnies!

We hosted SATs breakfasts for our Year 6s all week! The children were able to enjoy a nutritious and fun start to each day. It was incredible to see just how many waffles, pancakes, bananas and yoghurts can be consumed in one sitting!

One of Y6s said, "I thought SATs week was supposed to be awful. How come it's the best week ever...?!"

Thank you to our super staff team for ALWAYS going above and beyond for our children!

After working so hard during their SATs papers this week, the Year 6s were given a very special treat! We took them to Costa Coffee for a drink! We are so proud of our children and how fantastically they applied themselves this week. Thank you so much to our wonderful Friends of St Joseph's for funding this very well-earned treat!

Whole School Attendance this week: 91.87%

Our attendance has been poor this week - significantly below national average.

We know that a few families had already booked term-time holidays last year, before they realised the impact on our children. We are hoping that families are now much more aware and won't be booking term-time holidays in the future.

Thank you for your help in supporting our children to achieve their best!

Our two-year olds have been developing their scientific enquiry skills this week. We got out the magnifying glasses, and the children investigated our growing snails!

This week, we have continued our 'in the garden' topic! We have enjoyed, 'planting flowers' using playdough and pipe cleaners and exploring rainbow colour sorting in the water play. We have been preparing the peas to be moved outside - look how tall they are! We are taking great care looking after our carrots, tomatoes, potatoes and turnips in the garden. We have also been busy making our own characters from 'Bill and Ben' using junk modelling in the creative area.

In Maths this week, we've been learning about mass and capacity. We decided to get interactive, to deepen understanding and context, which resulted in us balancing ourselves with a see-saw! Maths is fun!

St Patrick's Class have been learning about St. Peter and St. Stephen and how they spread the good news. We made mind maps to show how they helped spread the word of God and their lives on Earth and their legacies after they died. We also reflected on the Ascension of the Lord, using art after last week's Mass.

This week in RE, we have been creating artwork to represent the lives of St Peter and/or St Paul, especially looking at symbols to represent aspects of their lives and the changes that took place because of their time with Jesus.

St Nicholas (Nursery): Ethan

St Francis: (Preschool/Reception): Emily

St Bernadette (Year 1/2): Dylan

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Ronnie

St Therese (Year 5/6): Mary

Headteacher's Award (for being a fantastic role-model to everyone): Matilda S

Reading Raffle Winners: Owen, Arabella, George A, Abigail, Della

Team Point Winners: St John

Good Shepherd Mass (Leeds Cathedral): Tues 21st May

Bikeability (Year 6): 22nd and 23rd May

School Disco!: Thurs 23rd May

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

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

We are really looking forward to the school disco next week! Thanks to everyone for supporting this so far. More information will be e-mailed next week about timings, drops offs/pick-ups etc. Get those dance moves ready!

Next Friday will also be a treat Friday- a great start to half term week!

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