St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

The highlight for me this week was definitely watching our youngest children (from preschool to Year 2) enjoying a Forest School day on Tuesday!

Not many primary school children are given the opportunity to develop such important life skills, and we are delighted to be able to offer this for our little people.

Not only did our youngest classes experience their first Forest School, but our KS2 children continued their regular sessions on Wednesday too.

The resilience and perseverance built during these sessions will no doubt serve our children well.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

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Over the past couple of weeks, we've made some temporary changes to our staffing. Our decisions, as always, are based on supporting the needs of our children and ensuring we provide the very best care and education possible for our lovely little people.

We, as a staff team, go above and beyond for the children at all times, and are very grateful for the recognition and support we are seeing from families! Your kind words and messages of support mean such a lot to us!

Our virtue this week is: Prayer

Have a look at our Prayer Guide for Families on our website, to help you understand the prayers we use in school so you can share these at home with your children too!

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School & Nursery - Faith & Values

As you know, our KS2 children now enjoy Forest School regularly, but this week, we gave our EYFS and KS1 children a chance to have their own outdoor learning sessions too!

We were impressed at how quickly our youngest children picked up key Forest School skills - Anthony in Reception even managed to create fire! The children showed maturity and resilience, and thoroughly loved their session!

Our School Council met this week and discussed some fabulous ways in which they would like to improve our school and support our local community. They have the following message for you:

We are collecting any 'nearly new' toys and presents from now until the end of November. These will be donated to charities who support families who may not be able to afford Christmas presents this year. Please sort through your toys before Christmas and please give what you can.

There will be a collection box in St Patrick, please give any donation to your school council representatives. Thank you.

We are just finalising our exciting Advent plans across school! Please see below for some of our upcoming Christmas dates!

This Sunday (17th November), Mrs Ronicle and Laura Cooper 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 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

Whole School Attendance this week: 94.75%

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.

EYFS have been enjoying exploring the composition of number; this week we have been focusing on constructing four and five.

We have also been talking about Remembrance Day traditions and how we are part of our community.

Our Book of the week is Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers and we have loved learning about cold and icy habitats and writing some of our own penguin stories too!

We really recommend this book to everyone.

In Computing, St Bernadette's are learning how to make digital art! We have been able to make our own abstract art work and save this on a computer. Look at how fantastic it is!

In English and History we have been exploring the Stone Age. We thought about different jobs people would have had in a stone age camp. We created still scenes of a Stone Age camp. Can you identify what different jobs people are undertaking here?

As part of our PE learning in St Therese, we have been exploring different jumps. After learning and practising these, we choreographed our own routines with a range of jumps!

St Nicholas (Nursery): Julian

St Francis (Preschool/Reception): Grace

St Bernadette (Y1/2): Caleb

St Patrick (Y3/4): Theo

St Therese (Y5/6): Lily

Reading Raffle Winners: Frankie P, Edith, Abigail, Grace R, Eddie

Charity Tad10 Run: Sunday 17th November

Other Faiths Week (Sikhism): 18th-22 November

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

School Christmas Fayre: Sunday 1st December

Christmas Panto Visit (Reception - Y6): Tuesday 3rd December

Advent Mass (whole school, in Church): Wednesday 4th December, 10am

KS2 Carols in Church: Thursday 12th December, 6pm

Christmas Jumper Day (for Martin House): Friday 13th December

Preschool and KS1 Nativity (in school): Tuesday 17th December, 4pm

Christmas Dinner Day: Wednesday 18th December

Carols Around the Christmas Tree: Friday 20th December, 1:30-2pm

School closes for Christmas: Friday 20th December, 2pm

Don't forget to come along and support our runners (Mrs R and Mrs Cooper!) during their charity Tad10 run on Sunday 17th November! We will have a refreshments and cake stall outside school.

Plans for our Christmas fayre on Sunday 1st December are well underway! We are hoping this will be a fabulous opportunity to welcome our school family as well as the wider visitors to the Tadcaster Christmas market to our lovely little school. This is our biggest event of the year so any support and extra pairs of hands are appreciated. Please do get in touch if you have any hours to spare.

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