St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

The highlight of my week was most definitely my trip with the Mini Vinnies to deliver their Harvest donations to the Wetherby Foodbank. I was so proud of them - they're making our world a better place!

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Our current virtue is: Citizenship

If your child shows our virtues at home, please do let us know so we can celebrate that in school/nursery too!

This week, our Mini Vinnies carried their harvest collection to The Barn! We were met by the Wetherby and District Foodbank, who gratefully accepted our donations.

Well done to our amazing Mini Vinnies!

Thank you so much for your donations to support our local community, and show our virtues of love, kindness, charity and service.

On Monday, it was the feast day for St Francis. Our Nursery loved learning more about their named saint and celebrating the life and good deeds of St Francis!

Please see details of our new after school clubs, running from after half term. Bookings are open now on Parentpay!

Our Christmas Fayre is returning to its usual slot on Sunday 29th November.

The Christmas Fayre is always lots of fun for the children, but is also our biggest fundraising event of the year. It's our chance to raise as much as possible to support the school and all our other events.

We are in desperate need of volunteers to help us plan and run the event. Please let us know if you are able to help, even just an hour or two on the day would be fantastic.

Email us at friendsofstjotad@gmail.com or join our WhatsApp group via the link or QR code below.

Thank you for your support.

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CONGRATULATIONS to our Year 3s, who won our TT Rock Stars battle!

Miss Pitchers has organised a new battle... let's see if Year 3 can be beaten!

This week in St Francis Nursery, we have continued our book focus 'Room on the Broom'. Our favourite activity has been decorating the witch’s hat using a variety of loose parts. We loved using our imaginations to create magical designs! We even decided to ‘sweep’ the hat using tiny witches’ brooms! It's been so much fun exploring, creating and bringing the story to life through our play!

This week, St Bernadette's worked very hard while exploring numbers in maths. Reception children completed a special challenge, ordering numbers 1 to 10 on number stamps. Year 1 children learnt how to write addition number sentences and investigated different ways of making numbers. Our challenge now is to quickly recall number bonds to 10!

St. Patrick's Class has been busy creating their shell structures for their chosen animals. This week we have started the process of building our structures based on our plans, chosen materials and thought deeply about strengthening our materials. We worked hard and focused on practising our cutting skills and following our design briefs!

In Science, we looked at the life cycle of birds and reptiles. We dissected an egg and considered what the different parts meant.

All of our award winners are announced live in celebration assembly each Friday!

Stars of the Week

• St Francis (Nursery): Roux
• St Bernadette (Reception/ Y1): Gracie
• St Patrick (Y2 / Y3 / Y4): Harry
• St Therese (Y5 / Y6): Darcie

Headteacher's Award Winner

William, for always showing such enthusiasm and demonstrating our virtue of the Love of Learning!

Reading Raffle:

Emily, Roman, Theo, Spencer, Abigail

Make sure your child is reading at home at least 3 times a week (and getting their reading record signed!) to be entered to win a prize!

Team Point Winners - St John

Each week, the team points across school are counted, and the winners are given a treat during Monday play time!

Settling in reviews for families: Tuesday 13th October, Thursday 15th October

School closes for half term holiday: Thursday 22nd October

Training Day (school closed for children): Friday 23rd October

School opens to children for the Autumn2 Term: Monday, 2nd November

Anti-Bullying Week (PSHCE): 2-6th November

Open Classrooms (families welcome): Thursday 12th November, 2:30-4pm

FoSJ Break the Rules Day: Friday 13th November

Christmas Fayre: Sunday 29th November

St Francis and St Bernadette's Nativity: Tuesday 1st December, 9:30am and 4pm

Advent Mass (in Church): Wednesday 2nd December, 10am

Bookshare Breakfast (no assembly): Friday 4th December, 8:15am

Carols around the Christmas Tree (families welcome, in hall): Friday 18th December, 1pm

School closes for Christmas holiday: Friday, 18th December, 1:30pm

Training Day (school closed for children): Monday 4th January

School opens to children for the Spring1 Term: Tuesday, 5th January

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

Perfect Pitch Stars are moving to a new venue at *Leeds East Airport Church Fenton* with our purpose studio and we are launching a *Saturday morning drama club* for children aged 5-11 Our sessions will give children the opportunity to explore drama, develop their confidence and make new friends through creative activities in a welcoming environment. The details are: * Venue: Leeds East Airport, Church Fenton LS24 9SE * When: Saturday mornings 9am-10am * Register Interest here: https://forms.gle/GJzJN5gxjbQRTQG8A

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