St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

I have to say a huge thank you to our amazing families this week. Staff have had lots of parent/carer meetings this week, for various reasons, and our team has commented on how wonderful and supportive you all are! It has such a positive impact on a child's learning journey when we are able to work together. Thank you for being so brilliant!

Our new starters have settled in well, and all of our classes have been buzzing with exciting learning this week. Remember to follow us on our social media accounts to see our photos and videos!

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Our virtue continues to be: Respect

We have been thinking about how God made each of us, in his image - we are 'wonderfully made, dearly loved, and precious in his sight!' How special is that?!

We are working hard to show respect for ourselves this week.

When your child shows respect at home, please let us know so we can celebrate it in school too!

We are delighted to be welcoming our new reception starters into our school family next Friday (9:10am), during our Reception Welcome Liturgy.

This is a really special date in our school calendar. Our reception children will be guided by their Y5/6 buddies, and Father Sean will be joining us, to welcome the children and bless them at the start of their school journey with us at St Joseph's.

All are welcome, so feel free to bring grandparents, aunties, God-parents etc.! We look forward to seeing you there!

On Monday, you should have received an email about the launch of our new whole-school Times Table Champion programme! We're very excited about it! If you have any further questions on how to support your child with this, please contact your child's class teacher.

Special thanks to Mr Power, from Ss Peter & Paul (one of our Trust schools), who has provided us with the resources for this!

As you will know, after feedback from families who wanted easier communication with teachers, we have now launched Class Dojo across school! How exciting!

You should have received a link and QR to allow you to access your child's classroom. This will be a valuable tool to see your child's team points, photos of learning, and key messages from school staff.

If you have any trouble logging in, please let your child's class teacher or our school office know and they will be happy to help!

Last Friday, you should have received a curriculum map and reading guide for your child's class. It provides useful information about what your child will be learning this term. If you didn't receive yours, please contact our office, who would be happy to resend it to you!

Active Photographic have changed the date for the individual photos to Tuesday 7th October. Please make a note of the new date!

This week in St Francis, we have been reading the book The Colour Monster, learning about different feelings through colours. Our ‘happy’ yellow water tray brought lots of smiles and excitement and the children got creative, making their own modelling dough Colour Monsters, each with its own emotion and expression. We also spent time thinking about how emotions feel in our bodies.
Our favourite emotion was ‘calm’, just like the green Colour Monster. We had a class meditation to help us practise feeling peaceful together!

St Bernadette have had such fun this week, delving into our phonics and maths! We used chalks outside to write names and numbers and enjoyed jumping in and out of a giant tens frame too!

In RE, St Patrick's class have been discussion the importance of family and thinking about the different families we belong to, including God's family. We were able to enjoy the sunshine in the prayer garden as we discovered that everyone's family is unique and special.

In RE, we have been thinking about the Kingdom of God. To help us understand it, we have been reading Jesus' parables. We looked at the parable of the yeast. To help us understand what Jesus was saying, we made bread! We made some without yeast and some with. We noticed that even though yeast was such a small ingredient, it made a huge difference! In a similar way, the Kingdom of God can work in us to raise us to be better just like how the yeast worked in the bread!

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

Stars of the Week

• St Francis (Nursery): Esmae
• St Bernadette (Reception/ Y1/ Y2): Avery
• St Patrick (Y3 / Y4): Aoife
• St Therese (Y5 / Y6): Lacey

Headteacher's Award

• Imogen for showing our virtue of 'respect' to everyone, particularly with our younger children at playtimes!

Reading Raffle

• Roman, Sienna, Ava, Frankie M, Maddie

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

Our team winners this week are: St Mark!

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

Whole school star of year Mass (in Church) - all welcome: Wednesday 17th September, 10am

Welcome Liturgy for reception children, after celebration assembly: Friday 19th September, 9:10am

Open Classrooms (whole school and nursery): Monday 22nd September, 2:30-4:30pm

Tadcaster Historical Society visiting St Bernadette's: Thursday 25th September

Macmillan Coffee Morning, after celebration assembly: Friday 26th September

Forest School (all classes and nursery): Friday 3rd October

Individual pupil photos: Tuesday 7th October

Settling In Review Evenings (whole school and nursery): Mon 6th and Tues 7th October

World Faiths Week - Buddhism: 6th-10th October

School closes for the half term summer holiday: Thursday 23rd October

Our email address is: friendsofstjotad@gmail.com

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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

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