St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

The highlight of my week was definitely on Thursday afternoon, when our whole school took part in the Mini London Marathon! We had the BEST time!

We did St Joseph's proud, and have raised over £120 so far! Thank you for your support with this. Further details/photos below. Huge thanks also to our Friends of St Joseph's, who provided well-earned refreshments for our little athletes!

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!

St Joseph's were proud to take part in the national Mini London Marathon on Thursday afternoon, to help improve fitness, well-being and to raise money for our Friends of St Joseph's.

Our children (and staff!) were amazing and showed our virtue of perseverance. The children have each received a certificate for participation.

We are very grateful to our Friends of St Joseph's, who kindly provided refreshments for the children at the event.

Please pledge your donations in support of this fantastic cause on ParentPay!

Friends of St Joseph's are delighted to announce the return of the school disco on Thursday 14th May!

3:45-4:45pm - St Francis (children starting Reception in Sep 2026 ONLY) and St Bernadette

*an adult is required to be present throughout the disco for all children at this disco

5:00-6:00pm - St Patrick and St Therese

Come along for dancing, games and lots of fun!

Tickets £5 now available to purchase on Parent Pay.

We hope to see you all there!

Last Friday, some of our amazing children held a stall, selling home-made crafts to raise money for Martin House Children’s Hospice! They raised £20.20!

We LOVE this great example of kindness, charity and compassion!

This week in St Francis, we began exploring our new story, Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have really enjoyed bringing the tale to life by story retelling in the tuff tray, creating their own giant’s castle and planting and growing their very own beanstalks!

Another fabulous week has flown by in St Bernadette's. We have finished our maths topic on money and are now experts in coins, finding amounts and checking change! We have also been enjoying our new book "Dear Greenpeace" which is full of letters - so we're now working on writing some letters of our own!

On Wednesday, St Patrick's class enjoyed a lovely sunny walk in the sunshine our way to mass. It was lovely to see how engaged they were during the ceremony and how well they listened to Fr Sean's sermon. At the end of mass, they sang Happy Birthday for one of our communities' parishioners who turned 90 years old. Fr Sean mentioned how they all loved hearing the children's superb singing!

In PSHE, we have been thinking about how we speak to ourselves in our thoughts can change how we feel or how we act. We looked at different situations and considered how different we could feel and act if we thought positively or negatively about it.

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

Stars of the Week

• St Francis (Nursery): Jessica
• St Bernadette (Reception/ Y1/ Y2): Ava-Rose
• St Patrick (Y3 / Y4): Ella L
• St Therese (Y5 / Y6): Ella Y

Headteacher's Award Winner

Natalia and Grace for showing perseverance (and being my running buddies!) during our Mini Marathon this week!

Reading Raffle

• Favour, Hannah, Mia, Aoife, 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

St Luke

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

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

Disco (EYFS and KS1): Thursday 14th May, 3:45-4:45pm

Disco (KS2): Thursday 14th May, 5-6pm

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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