Buses: Your Voice Is Needed!

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Dear Catholic School  Friends & Families,

Within days of the start of the 2019 legislative session of the Connecticut General Assembly, two State House Bills were proposed to eliminate bus transportation for nonpublic schools, which include our great Catholic schools (HB 5241 and HB 6611).

**Please know that the statute requiring towns and municipalities to provide these services has been ruled constitutional by the Connecticut Supreme Court.  The statute ensures the safe transportation of students to and from school, and it supports school children and their parents.

**This is a matter of public safety akin to the provision of first responder services to any private company or residence.

**We realize local and state budgets are stretched, but we must not start balancing budgets by cutting back on student safety.

Catholic school families already save towns and the state millions of dollars by assuming the costs of their children’s education.

Please urge your legislators to oppose these bills by clicking the link below.  This proposal has the support of many high ranking legislators, so it is critical that your voice is heard now and in the weeks ahead.

In faith,
Anne LaMonica, CCPAC Associate Director for Education

Click the link below to log in and send your message:
https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/2DPj2ZLhnh8LJRS2x7R3Gw

2019-2020 Registration Starts Tomorrow

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This week Saint James School has been celebrating Catholic Schools Week in conjunction with other Catholic schools across the country.  Saint James School is very fortunate and has much to celebrate: Our strong enrollment, extremely careful oversight of expenditures, strong community, awesome staff, and continued commitment to an exceptional academic, moral, and spiritual foundation for our students.

In keeping with tradition, tomorrow afternoon Mrs. Zorger will be sending out a (separate) email to all Pre-Kindergarten – 7th grade families with registration paperwork for the 2019-2020 school year. 

Please be diligent about getting the required forms and $100 deposit back to us as quickly as possible; We have some pretty full classes this year and have a number of new families that have applied and are awaiting acceptance.

If you have any questions after receiving tomorrow’s 2019-2020 Registration email, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

Hand Writing Contest Winners!

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Congratulations to the 1st & 2nd grade winners (and runners up) of the SJS 2019 Zaner-Bloser Handwriting contest! Our two first place winners will now have their beautiful penmanship submitted to the State competition (as you may recall, last year SJS had a State winner). Great job SABERS!!

Grade 1: Mary Pescosolido – 1st Place; Ellery Ernstrom – runner up

Grade 2: Brandon Zyskowski – 1st Place; Madelyne Smith – runner up

All State Band Students

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Congratulations to the following SJS students:

All State Jazz Band – **Michael Machewirth, Marion Patsalides, Stefan Poth

All State Symphonic Band – **Michael Machewirth, **Marion Patsalides, Stefan Poth, Henry Peeler, Irene Milite

All State Concert Band – **Ayva Scalese, **Alejandro Oyewold, David LaMonica, Dylan Smith, Alex Melaragno, Holden Riley, Drew Burnham, Ryan Chacaga

** Solo Chair

 

Blue & Gold Dress Down Tomorrow

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Friday, February 1st, is our annual Blue & Gold/Spiritwear dress down day and SJS Pep Rally.  Students may come to school on Friday dressed down in blue & gold (the school colors) or wear any of their Saint James School spiritwear.  Standard dress down guidelines apply.  If your child has an SJS Class of 20xx t-shirt that we have given out to all our new Kindergarten students in the past few years, please consider having them wear that.

All SJS Basketball Players should wear their basketball top (with a shirt under it) to school tomorrow.

Delay Reminder

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Just a reminder that on days when we have a two hour delay, there is no before-school care.  Students cannot be dropped off anytime before 9:30am and must be here by 9:55am for the final bell.

Afternoon Activities Cancelled/Aftercare Closing at 3pm

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The town of Manchester has called for the cancellation of all afternoon activities due to the impending weather.  Please note the following for us here at Saint James School:

AFTERCARE is closing at 3:00pm today.  All students at aftercare must be picked up by then.

Choir is cancelled for this afternoon.

Math Club (6th grade) is cancelled for this afternoon.

Basketball practices are cancelled for this afternoon.

If you need to get a message to your child, please call the main office at 860.643.5088 (option 1).

Varsity Blue

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Varsity Blue had a thriller last night against St Tims. Our boys were down 23 – 15 at the end of the first half, but the team stormed back to win it, 42 – 41.  Way to go SABERS!!

Volunteers For Saturday’s Games Needed

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Parent and player volunteers are needed for this Saturday, February 2nd as we will be hosting basketball games at our school for a good portion of the day.  We really need parents to help man the doors during the day so please be a “team player” and grab a spot.  The following link will take you to the signup sheet:

volunteersignup.org/TE79J

Thank you to all our basketball parents for your help in supporting our volunteer coaches!

Change to Volunteer Reception and Prayer Service Tomorrow

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Due to the impending snowy/rainy weather for tomorrow morning, we have decided to move our Volunteer Reception and Prayer Service to our school Gymnasium tomorrow.

If there is  NO delay, we will begin the prayer service in the gym at 9:15am.

If there IS A delay tomorrow, we will begin in the gym at 10:15am.

We are excited to see many of our awesome volunteers tomorrow!