Friends of St Josephs PTA

**SAVE THE DATE**
The Summer Fair Sunday 5th July!!!

We're really excited to be bringing this much loved fundraising event back but we need your help with this.

We need:
You to start saving your jam jars (we'll explain why later)
Donations for the cake stall, international food stall, plant stall and more to be announced
Prizes for the raffle
Volunteers to run the stalls - please get in touch if you'd like to help.

We'll looking forward to seeing Funky Dance Fever Studio and Sheffield Dragons in action too.

Thank you xx

To celebrate St Joseph's Day with the money raised from the recent discos and Mother's Day Presents we (the PTA) arranged for the children to have an extra special treat - yum.

Thank you for your continued support which enables us to arrange things like this for the children.

If you'd like to be involved please get in touch xx

**SAVE THE DATE**

We have BIG NEWS... our Annual Summer Fair will be back this year on Sunday 5th July!!! We're really excited to be bringing this much loved fundraising event back.

We will definitely need your help with this - any volunteers who would like to be involved or help on a stall please don't be shy, we can't do this without lots of help.

So get saving your empty jam/sauce jars, practicing your favourite recipes for the cake stall and international food stall, asking for prizes for the raffle or growing plants for the plant stall - it will all help.

More details to follow xx

We just wanted to say a massive thank you for all the support received for the recent school disco and Mother's Day Presents events.

All of the money raised will be spent on the children - we look forward to sharing with you how the money is spent x

**Last chance***
Don't forget to buy your ticket for Friday's Mother's Day Presents on the School Gateway.

Dear Families

The Friends of St Joseph's PTA are once again holding a Mothers Day gift wrap which will take place on Friday the 13th March 26. If you would like your child to take part please go to the school gateway to make payment ( £3.00 per gift) and give your consent - The link for the wrap expires on Wednesday 11th March 26.

School are unable to accept cash on the day of the wrap. If you have any problems or issues, please let the school office know. Thank you for your support.

Best wishes
Friends of St Joseph's PTA / St Joseph's School

We're very excited about the KS2 discos tomorrow!!!

We're a couple of helpers short for the Y5/Y6 disco - if you can help please either drop us a message or let the school office know - thank you x

Dear Families,
There is still time to purchase a ticket for the school disco if your child is wanting to join in.

Please visit the School Gateway and let us know in the comment section if your child would like the regular hotdog or the vegetarian option, if they have any allergies and if you could possible help out on the night. (The link will expire on Monday 2nd March 26)

Any questions or problems please contact the school office.

Dear Families

The Friends of St Joseph's PTA are once again holding a Mothers Day gift wrap which will take place on Friday the 13th March 26. If you would like your child to take part please go to the school gateway to make payment ( £3.00 per gift) and give your consent - The link for the wrap expires on Wednesday 11th March 26.

School are unable to accept cash on the day of the wrap. If you have any problems or issues, please let the school office know. Thank you for your support.

Best wishes
Friends of St Joseph's PTA / St Joseph's School

Dear Families,
There is still time to purchase a ticket for the school disco if your child is wanting to join in.

Please visit the School Gateway and let us know in the comment section if your child would like the regular hotdog or the vegetarian option, if they have any allergies and if you could possible help out on the night. (The link will expire on Monday 2nd March 26)

Any questions or problems please contact the school office.

Dear Parents and Carers,
Thank you so much for all your enthusiasm and support for our upcoming Cultural Afternoon (27th November)– it’s been fantastic to see how excited everyone is already!

We’re really pleased to let you know that we’ve managed to team up with a local publisher to create our very own St Joseph’s Recipe Book. The books will be £10 each and, with a bit of luck, will be ready just in time for Christmas – a lovely keepsake or gift!

Because we’re working to a tight deadline, we’d love to include as many of your wonderful recipes as possible. If you’d like to take part, please email your special recipe to [email protected] by the end of this week.

When you send it, please also include:
🍴 A photo of you and your children
🌍 The country your dish comes from
Thank you again for being such a big part of this project – we can’t wait to see (and taste!) all the delicious dishes that represent our amazing school community.

School Recipe Book Dear Parents / Carers, Many years ago, our school and parish created a special recipe book to showcase some of the unique culinary traditions of our community. Following the upcoming cultural event later this month, we would like to create a new recipe book featuring dishes that are special to our s...

Cultural Food Extravaganza
(planned for 27th Nov 2025)

Dear Parents/Carers,

As you know, we’re celebrating our 150th Anniversary.

One of the things that makes our school really special is the rich mix of cultures and backgrounds in our community. We want to celebrate this, before the rush of Advent and Christmas, school are going to have a day of celebration, sharing different national dishes and celebrating all the different cultures. In the school we have 22 of them!

if you can’t make it to school on the day, but could cook something instead. Could you please email school with what you can cook and the country it represents and bring it on the day. If you could let school know as soon as possible and they would need a list of ingredients you will be using.

The next meeting is planned on the 20th Nov at 14:30.

We want to have loads of food for both the kids to enjoy tasting/sampling and then the parents to join later on.

Would anyone be able to make any dishes that we could share?

If you aren't able to participate on the day, could you make something and bring it to school in the morning?
If Yes, please email school with what you can cook, the country it represents and school need a list of ingredients (for allergies)

We’d really love your help with this! If you’d like to cook and share food from your culture, please come along to our next meeting.

We'll be selling the rest of the buns at school pick up today.

**Cakes for sale **
If anyone has a spare 50p please bring it to school to buy a cake, they will be on sale before school.
All funds are going to one of our families who are raising money for a family member diagnosed with a life limiting brain tumour.
Huge thank you to Local dance school Funky Dance Fever (where numerous pupils attend) who held a 3 hour danceathon on Sunday to raise money and have some cakes leftover.