St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

We celebrated Ascension Mass in Church (see below for further info).

It's incredible that even our youngest Mini Vinnies, in Year 2, were brave enough to stand and face a packed Church and read so confidently - that takes a lot of courage!

Each week that we attend Mass, we are noticing how much more reverent, comfortable and engaged the children are - even our tiniest 3 year old pre-schoolers! Father Sean and several parishioners have also said the same. We are incredibly proud of our amazing children!

We've been enjoying the sunshine this week and are excited to hear that our fantastic Friends of St Joseph's have arranged an impromptu freeze pop Treat Friday today, to make the most of the weather! See you there... !

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Our current virtue is kindness. Showing kindness to others is a very important feature of our school and is already something we do very well. We have been exploring why it is important to be kind and thinking about how we can celebrate acts of kindness. Our Mini Vinnies have created a kindness postbox, where people can post notes about acts of kindness they have seen across school.

When your child shows kindness at home, please let me know so we can celebrate this in school too!

Each term, we celebrate 'Other Faiths Week' across school. This week, we have been exploring Buddhism. The children have loved learning about the origins and traditions of Buddhism and what it means to be a Buddhist today.

On Thursday, the whole school attended a lovely Ascension of the Lord Mass, at St Joseph's Church. The celebration was led by Father Sean and our Mini Vinnies Team! Our children read and sang beautifully. Well done, everyone.

Our little baby snails are growing quite quickly! One is now as big as Ms Nihill's thumbnail! They're still a bit shy and we see them most often when they're enjoying grazing on their lettuce. Our St Nicholas children are fascinated by them!

Next week, our Year 6 children will be sitting their SATs tests. We are very proud of all our children, regardless of their outcomes. We ask only that they try their hardest. Please keep our Year 6 children in your prayers this coming week.

Year 6s - we're looking forward to welcoming you into school early this week for SATs breakfasts!

If you have any planters or gardening canes going spare, could you please bring these into school? We are growing lots of different plants, fruit and veg in school and they are rapidly outgrowing their little pots!

Whole School Attendance this week: 95.72%

Hurray - our attendance is much better again this week! Super to see!

As a mum, I know how manic mornings can feel! We are grateful that you are doing such a good job in getting our children to school each day and on time. Thank you!

Our learning this week has been based on the book, 'Guess How Much I Love You'. The children have been interested in what rabbits eat, so we have been tasting carrots and dips. The children tried humous, salsa, sour cream, guacamole and nacho cheese! They all said the carrots were very tasty.

In Maths this week, we have been manipulating shapes by rotating them to compose patterns. We used Numicon and baseboards to orientate the shapes to 'fit' correctly onto the baseboard patterns. We also looked at different shape and colour repeated patterns and created our own using salt dough shapes, link cubes, peg boards and tangram templates!

St Bernadette's have enjoyed learning about Buddhism in Other Faiths week! We learnt about the origins and some of their practices. We tried some meditation and then created our own Mandala patterns!

We have just started our new writing unit about persuasive language and are learning how to plan and write a holiday brochure! We have found fantastic facts about Sicily which we are going to use over the next few lessons. We used the Chromebooks to gather facts and bullet points, headings and pictures to help structure our work.

We learned about the core beliefs of Buddhism, where and how it originated, and some of the key symbols associated with it. We even had a dress-up experience in class! The parasol represents protection from harm and suffering.

St Nicholas (Nursery): Eric

St Francis: (Preschool/Reception): Rae

St Bernadette (Year 1/2): Natalia

St Patrick (Year 3/4): Zack

St Therese (Year 5/6): Lily

Headteacher's Award (for the virtue of kindness): Harrison

Reading Raffle Winners: Maddie, James, Edith, Frankie P, Hannah

Team Point Winners: St John

Year 6 SATs Week (and SATs breakfasts!): Mon 13th - Thurs 16th 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

It's really exciting to see so many slips being returned for the Disco. Fabulous song requests too- we will certainly have our dancing shoes on!

Just a reminder that the deadline is Wednesday :)

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