Entries by jonesen

Main Street Scarecrow Helpers

This year, Saint James School is again entering the annual Downtown Scarecrow Festival. We are looking for volunteers to help create a worthy family-friendly SJS scarecrow which will be on display lining Main St. from October 14th through October 28th. First, Second and Third Place prizes will be awarded in both the People’s Choice and […]

Congratulations SJS XC!

Congratulations to all our students who ran in the 6th Annual Harry Geraghty XC Invitational this past Friday. The SJS girls did exceptionally well taking 1st place by a wide margin out of the 5 schools competing – with top SJS students as follows: 1st place – Lindsay O’Neill 3rd place – Kaitlyn Nyberg 6th place – […]

Bagpipe Lessons Info Session

As an informational FYI, the Manchester Pipe Band is hosting an open house on Friday October 13th at 6PM at the Lutz Children’s Museum, 247 S Main Street, Manchester.  Come learn about tuition-free lessons provided on a weekly basis in traditional bagpiping and drumming. Piping and drumming has been taught in Manchester for generations, and […]

Student Helpers Needed – SJS Children's Masses

Thank you to everyone who responded to our request a few weeks ago for students in Grades 3 – 8 to participate in Sunday Mass at St. James Church.  This is a great chance for our church parishioners – many of whom very generously support our school – to see the some of the wonderful students they are […]

October Saber Stories

Attached please find the October 2017 Saber Stories Newsletter from Mrs. Zorger. October 2017 Saber Stories Also, the SJS October Lunch Menu has been added to our website homepage.

Ends Tomorrow: Book Fair Online Store

If you were unable to attend our Scholastic Book Fair last week (or simply want to get additional books for your child), you can visit our ONLINE Shopping link at scholastic.com/fair . Our school will still receive credit for your purchase and orders will be shipped for free to your child at SJS.

Grandparents’ & Special Persons’ Day

This week you should be receiving in your child’s school folder the information form for Grandparents’ & Special Persons’ day, coming up on October 26th.  The permission slip/information notice is due back to the school by Friday, October 20th.  If you need a new copy of the form, it can be downloaded HERE.

Halloween Trunk or Treat Meeting Tonight

There is a planning meeting tonight (9/28) for anyone who is interested in helping with the Trunk or Treat event.  The meeting will be at 6:00pm in the school cafeteria.  If you cannot attend but would like to help, please email Cathy Deschaine at cathyd241@gmail.com.

Chromebook (Grade 6-8) Forms

Thank you to all the middle school parents who came out for our Chromebook Informational Meeting last night.  In case you didn’t make the meeting, attached are the documents that were handed out.  Please note, insurance forms (attached below) are due back to the homeroom teacher are due back by October 27th. Chromebook Parent Letter Chromebook Care and […]

VIRTUS Reminder

As a reminder, there is a VIRTUS session tonight – Thursday September 28th (6:30pm) – at Saint James Church.  To participate in a VIRTUS session, you must Pre-Register on the VIRTUS Site.  To access the schedule of upcoming sessions and register to attend one, click here and select Hartford, CT (Archdiocese). Thank you for your support in helping make Saint […]