St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

As we come to the end of our year, we have so much to celebrate across our school and nursery.

What a wonderful year we've had!

Highlights for me include: our participation in the BWCAT singing concert at St John Fisher's; the team-building skills we see in our forest school sessions; the festive community cheer during our Carols around the Christmas Tree event; the children's resilience during our Mini London Marathon; and the sheer amount of children continually coming to my office to share amazing learning and achievements!

After feedback from families, we have tried to include as many dates on our newsletter as possible (see upcoming dates below), to help you with planning family/work/school logistics. We hope this will be more helpful for you.

We thank you for your involvement and positivity this year. Working in a school can be demanding but it makes such a difference to us when staff receive little messages of support or gratitude. We are very blessed to have such wonderful families in our St Joseph's school community.

We can't wait to see what joys next year will bring...

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Our current virtue is: Service

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

It was a delight to see our super Year 6 children leading our Leavers' Mass on Wednesday, for our whole school and Tadcaster parish. Thank you, also, to Tadcaster Churches Together, who gave the gift of a Holy Bible to each of our children - we know they will treasure these.

This week, we took delivery of our brand new dining furniture! Our children enjoyed using them for the first time - how exciting!

We say goodbye to Deborah Welch and Mary-Jane Murray this summer, who are both stepping down from their roles in our Academy Council. They have both served our school community superbly for many years, and we are very grateful for the time, support and expertise they have given St Joseph's over the years! We hope you both go on to enjoy the next chapters of your lives!

Thank you to those of you that joined us for our End of Year Celebration Assembly this morning! We are thrilled to announce our worthy award winners below. We nominated children as a staff team and it took us ages to decide upon final winners, because we had SO MANY super contenders! Well done to all our winners!

This week in St Francis Nursery, we have enjoyed a fantastic final week of summer fun! We loved visiting the roleplay ice cream shop, cooling off with lots of exciting water play, and bringing in our own toys to share with our friends!

We have had such a fabulous year in nursery, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our nursery families and the school community for your continued support throughout the year!

To all of our children who are moving on, we wish you the very best of luck in your new adventures. We are so proud of everything you have achieved and know you will all continue to shine. We hope you all have a wonderful summer!

St Bernadette have had a fantastic final week, with lots of learning and celebration! The (slightly) cooler weather has meant that we could enjoy lots of outdoor learning and have been exploring position and direction (maths) enjoying PE, teamwork activities and sharing stories out on the field. Keep learning over the summer everyone!

This week, we have been working on a project in Maths where we have been running our own businesses! It has been fun to design our product, calculate expenses and organise a staff rota.

Family picnic on the field (all invited!): Friday 17th July, 12:30-1:30pm

School closes for summer holiday: Friday 17th July, 1:30pm

Next Academic Year!

School opens to children for the Autumn1 Term: Tuesday, 8th September

British Values Week (PSHCE): 8-11th September

Friends of St Joseph's Evening: Wednesday 23rd September, 7pm

St Therese hosting Macmillan Coffee Morning: Friday 25th September (after celebration assembly)

Welcome Mass (in Church): Wednesday 30th September, 10am

Reception New Starter Ceremony (in school, families welcome): Friday 2nd October, 9:10am

Individual school photos: Monday 5th October

Settling in reviews for families: Tuesday 13th October, afternoon/evening

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

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

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