St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Despite the dreary British weather, here at St Joseph's we've had a jam-packed, fun-filled half term!

We have included lots of opportunities to welcome families into school. We love seeing you around school, whether it's looking at learning in open classrooms, discussing progress at learning review evenings, celebrating achievements in Friday assemblies, or sharing a story and a cuppa at Bookshare Breakfast!

We are very blessed to have such engaged, support families and can't thank you enough!

Have a lovely half term break, and we look forward to seeing you on our return.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Our current virtue is: Simplicity

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

On Wednesday, we were very proud of our Year 3 children, who made the sacrament of Reconciliation at Church. Thank you to the families who joined us, and to Mr Knox and Father Sean for supporting the children in their preparation for this.

Thank you for your support at our Bookshare Breakfast this morning! It was wonderful to see so many families enjoying books together.

Big thank you to Miss Savelli and our staff team for hosting this!

Well done to our KS2 swim team, for amazing stamina during the Selby schools’ swimming tournament on Tuesday. You did St Joseph's proud!

We're proud to say we raised £80 for NSPCC for our Number Rocks Day last week!

Thank you so much for all your kind donations for a worthy cause.

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Booking is now live on ParentPay (as per the email sent this morning) and places are allocated on a first come, first serve basis:

Boccia! (bot-cha)

Similar to bowls, the aim of the game is to get your ball closest to the jack as possible. It requires tactics and physical accuracy, and is suitable for all abilities!

Mondays, 3:30-4:30pm.

Baking Club

From healthy granola bars to iced cookies, we invite you to create something delicious with Miss Dawson! Children take home their baked goods to eat (or share, if they are feeling generous!)

Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30pm

Art Club

Come and join our new school Art Club, for pupils who love colour, creativity, and trying new things! These fun sessions are suitable for all skill levels, and are run by Jo, one of our school Art Leadership team members!

Fridays, 7:45-8:45am

Each club costs £7.95 per session (discounted rates for Pupil premium) and is payable in a block via ParentPay.

There are 5 sessions in total for each club and will commence Monday 23rd February until we break for Easter on Friday 27th March 2026.

Treat Friday is back! Today after school!

Bring your 50ps for some Valentine’s themed treats courtesy of Friends of St Joseph’s

This week in St Francis Nursery, we have celebrated Chinese New Year. We have really enjoyed our themed sensory tray, developing our fine motor skills by pinching and transferring rice and gold coins into red celebration boxes and lucky envelopes!

St Bernadette have finished this half term in style - writing our own autobiographies, learning about telling the time and how to describe arrays in maths. We have also been talking about how to keep our bodies clean and healthy! We have loved doing some of our learning with Miss Pattinson this week!

In St Patrick's this week, we have been creating our very own Greek mythical monster paintings as inspired by Caravaggio. We used different paint blending techniques to create areas of light and dark to contrast each other. Very scary!

In Art, we made and painted our Ancient Egyptian canopic jars! Canopic jars were used in Ancient Egypt to store the organs of a person who had died. There were 4 designed with heads of a jackal, baboon, human and a falcon. These were the hardest part of our jars to make!

SATS Club Year 6: Wednesdays after school (until 25th March)

Positive Psychology Week: 23-27th Feb

CAFOD workshops: Tuesday 24th Feb

Eat Them to Defeat Them (Healthy eating campaign): Starts Mon 2rd March

NSPCC Speak Out, Stay Safe workshops: Thursday 5th March

Y5/6 Residential: Mon 16th - Wed 18th March

BWCAT Choir Concert: Thursday 19th March

KS2 Cross Country Event: Friday 20th March

School closes for Easter: Friday 27th March

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; 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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