Thank you to our awesome HSA/Parent Volunteers Mrs. Talaga, Mrs. Poth, Mrs. Fiereck, Mrs Miller, and Mrs. Santodonato (along with several of our SJS students) who came by yesterday afternoon to  decorate our sidewalks and draw out fun courses for the kids to do at recess.

 

Since there was very little need among our Pre-K families for the Before Care program, at this time we will not be offering Before Care for Pre-K3 & Pre-K4.

Before Care will still be available to our K-8.

There WILL be AFTER SCHOOL CARE for Pre-K3 & Pre-K4 as well as all K-8 students.  Aftercare runs from afternoon dismissal until 5:30pm.

Please reach out to Jean Burdick (Ms. Jean) at jburdick@saintjamesschool.net with any questions.

Please remember any student going to aftercare on the first day of school needs a lunch from home.

We have a few last minute changes to our teaching staff for the upcoming school year to share:

Mrs. St. Jean has moved back over to the K-8 school to teach second grade for this school year, one of the grades she taught here for several years prior to becoming our Pre-Kindergarten Director/Pre-K4 Teacher in 2018.

Mrs. St. Jean will maintain her supervisory role as the Pre-Kindergarten program director, and will continue to have an active role in the planning and decision making process of the program. Mrs. St. Jean planned and worked all summer to adapt the Pre-Kindergarten program to meet the needs of the upcoming school year and will continue to work with the staff there throughout the year.

At the same time, Mrs. Mauldin – who worked alongside Mrs. St. Jean in our Pre-K4 class last year, has moved into the role of Pre-K4 teacher.  We have also hired Mrs. Lori Lengsavath (who worked as a Pre-Kindergarten teacher at St. Christopher School in East Hartford) to be our third staff member for the Pre-K4 program.  Our littlest learners – our Pre-K3s – will continue to be taught by Mrs. Page and Mrs. Davis.

In some other last minute news, Mrs. Lindemann will not be returning to us this year in the role of general music teacher, as her family just sold their home and will be moving out of the area.  We are in the process of hiring to fill this position and hope to have good news to share with the school community very soon.

In some unfortunate news, we have not yet found a suitable candidate to teach our Spanish curriculum.  We are actively continuing our search to fill this position.  We will communicate updates to you as soon as we have good news to share.

Thank you to Kassi T for showing us this cool tip for our youngest learners whose lanyard may be too long.  Click Here to Watch