St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful summer! It's been a joy to be back in school again this week, and to hear about how fun-filled the children's summers have been! We've settled in really quickly and are delighted to have welcomed in new members of our family this week, both children and adults!

The year ahead looks to be a fantastic one, with so many amazing events and experiences already planned for our children. Keep an eye on the 'upcoming dates' section each week, as this will be continuing to grow as we move through the year!

Thank you, as always, for supporting us to

Live, love and learn with the Lord.

Mrs Ronicle

Our virtue over the next few weeks is: Respect

We have been exploring what respect looks like and how we can show respect to those around us. When your child shows respect at home, please let us know so we can celebrate it in school too!

Huge thank you to the local businesses who donated grants to fund our brand new library and sensory area! We are pleased to introduce...

St George's Book Snug - St George is the patron saint of reading!

Special mention to Holly and Noah (mini Ronicles!) who spent their own summer holiday building the MANY sets of flatpack furniture for us!

We look forward to utilising the space this year!

Towards the end of last year, we encouraged families to complete our survey. We had an overwhelmingly positive response! We are grateful for your feedback and suggestions of how to improve our lovely school.

We have listened carefully and have put the following actions in place:

Increased communication with classroom staff

In the next couple of weeks, we will be launching Class Dojo as a platform for families to see your child's team points, and communicate with classroom staff about the day-to-day things that not all families have a chance to do in person. We hope this will help you feel more closely connected to what is going on in class, and to your child's teacher.

More opportunities to see children's learning

We heard how much you appreciate coming into school to see your child's learning, so have already scheduled an open classroom event for this half term. We have scheduled one per term. Please keep an eye on the 'upcoming dates' section below to see when these are occurring.

Longer times at review evenings

Our settling in review evenings are scheduled for early October (check dates below) and we have planned for these to run over two evenings, allowing parents/carers more time with your child's class teacher.

Snacks

We are a healthy eating school, and ask that snacks brought in for play times are healthy, such as fruit, yoghurt, crackers or cheese. We do not allow children to eat crisps/sweets/chocolate at break times. Any snacks brought in that aren't healthy will be sent back home.

Water Bottles

We encourage our children to keep hydrated throughout the day, so ask that all children bring a water bottle into school every day. These must only be filled with water.

Nuts

We ask that you do not send children into school with nuts, or any foods containing nuts. We have several children and adults with severe nut allergies.

PE Kit

Each class will have two PE sessions each week. Y1-4 will go swimming each Wednesday, as one of their sessions. Please ensure children bring in their PE kit on the correct days:

St Bernadette (R/Y1/Y2): Monday and Wednesday (swimming for Y1/2)

St Patrick (Y3/ Y4): Monday and Wednesday (swimming)

St Therese (Y5/ Y6): Monday and Friday

Uniform

It is important to encourage our children to take pride in our school and appearance, by keeping to the policy please. We are no longer in the summer term, so children need to be wearing white shirts and ties (no polo shirts or summer dresses until the summer term please!).

We have made a change to our policy, to support our children being active at play times, and are allowing black trainers as part of our uniform.

Please remember that we have a bank of pre-loved uniform, available for a small donation. Contact the school office if you would like to have a look through these.

Our full uniform details can be found on our website:

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School - School Uniform

We are so excited to begin our new school year in St. Francis and have so much learning and fun to look forward to!

This week, we have been exploring 'Me Myself and I'. It was a perfect opportunity to share who we are and celebrate what makes us unique.

Our favourite activities this week were giving the dolls bubble baths in the water tray and using natural objects and loose parts to create face collages. We’ve enjoyed lots of caring and imaginative play, and we’ve had great fun exploring what makes us special.

Newsletter - This week St B have been settling into our new classroom and routines! To help us to talk about our holidays, Reception pupils completed a summer shoe box project. This gave us chance to share their memories (through photos, shells and collected items!) - they showed super confidence in talking about their adventures!

It has been an exciting first week back in school for St Patrick's class and the children have really enjoyed diving into their new class history topic, the Ancient Maya. After some excellent map work, identifying where in the world the Maya lived, the children were able to work together as a class in creating their own timeline of key events during the Maya period.

In RE, we learnt about our class saint - St Therese. We learnt how she was different to other saints in that she didn't do one big dramatic thing but instead, made lots of little offerings to God. We made her sacrifice beads so that we could record whenever we have completed a little good deed that day.

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

St Francis will join us for celebration assembly next week, once they've had chance to settle in with their new 2 year olds!

Stars of the Week

• St Bernadette (Reception/ Y1/ Y2): Hannah
• St Patrick (Y3 / Y4): Abigail
• St Therese (Y5 / Y6): Imogen

Headteacher's Award

• Archie-James for beginning his St Joseph's journey with us this week in such a positive way, showing our virtue of respect to everyone!

Reading Raffle

Our weekly reading raffle will begin again next week. 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

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

Our team winners this week are: St Matthew!

British Values Week - PSHCE (I feel safe): 2nd-5th September

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

Individual pupil photos: Thursday 25th September

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

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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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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