St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

We have loved being back in school with our super St Joseph's children this week! We are very excited about all the fun activities and events the summer term will bring for us! Please join us for Open Classrooms next Tuesday (see below for further details) - we look forward to seeing you there.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Our current virtue is: Perseverance

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

We are delighted to be opening our doors next Tuesday (21st April, 2:30-4:30pm) for you to come in and explore your child's learning! We listened to your feedback in the family survey last year, telling us how popular these events are, and have ensured we hosted many more this year.

Open classrooms is for the whole school and nursery, so please bring family/friends and join us there!

Next Friday (24th), some of our amazing children have asked to hold a stall, selling home-made crafts to raise money for Martin House Children’s Hospice! We LOVE this great example of kindness, charity and compassion, and hope you will support them in bringing your spare change at pick-up!

On Wednesday, Year 6 families should have received a form to complete regarding Catholic Confirmation.

Confirmation is a very special sacrament that children can receive in Year 6. Children need to have been baptised and have received their First Holy Communion before beginning preparation for confirmation.

The Confirmation Mass will be in St Edward's Church, Clifford, on Thursday 21st May, 7pm.
For further information, please visit:

Confirmation – Diocese of Leeds – Educatihttps://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/education/sacramental-preparation/what-are-sacraments/confirmation/

If you have not received the form, or would like a further conversation with Mrs Ronicle / Miss Savelli, please contact our school office, who will be happy to help.

In St Francis Nursery, we have begun our new topic, “In the Garden.”

This week, we have enjoyed sharing the story “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and took part in retelling the story together. We have also been busy engaging in imaginative play, tending to our own garden in the role play area, and exploring a variety of minibeasts.

As part of our learning, we were also introduced to the life cycle of a butterfly, developing our understanding of growth and change in the natural world.

St Bernadette have had a brilliant week back, with lots of fun - especially in maths where we have been learning all about the values of coins and notes (KS1) and making patterns (EYFS). We have also enjoyed reading our new class book 'Grandad's Island' by Benji Davies.

St Patrick's Class are so excited to be back in class after the Easter holidays. The children had a busy week starting our new topics of Greece in Geography and Early Christianity in RE, and it has been fantastic to see how happy they are to be back with all their friends.

In PSHE, we have been thinking about different types of pressure. We acted out different scenarios where different types of pressure were being exerted. We had to watch each other's performance and identify which type of pressure their scene showed.

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

Stars of the Week

• St Francis (Nursery): Fergus
• St Bernadette (Reception/ Y1/ Y2): Mia
• St Patrick (Y3 / Y4): Oscar
• St Therese (Y5 / Y6): Jack

Headteacher's Award Winner

Roman, for showing our virtue of Perseverance, by always trying his hardest, and doing so with a smile!

Reading Raffle

• Frankie M, Erin, Avery, Eric, Ava

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

This week, we had our 'electricity-free' afternoon at the same time as team point collection, so were unable to collect our points as usual. Apologies. We will resume team points next week!

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

Open Classrooms (whole school and nursery): Tuesday 21st April, 2:30-4:30pm

Class photographs: Wednesday 22nd April

SATS Club: Wednesday 22nd April

SATS Club: Wednesday 29th April

Tadcaster Scarecrow Festival: 1st-3rd May

Bank Holiday (school closed to children): Monday 4th May

Crowning Marion Mass (whole school at St Joseph's Church): Wednesday 6th May, 10am

SATS Club: Wednesday 6th May

KS2 SATs (with SATs breakfast from 8:15am): Mon 11th - Thurs 14th May

Ascension Mass (whole school at St Joseph's Church): Thursday 14th May, 12:30pm

Year 6 Confirmation (at St Edward's Church, Clifford): Thursday 21 May, 7pm

NO Celebration Assembly: Friday 22nd May

School closes for May half term holiday: Friday 22nd May

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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