Middle School Parents – Chromebook Info

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If your middle school child is having trouble accessing Google Docs via the task bar, please share with them the following:

If the shortcut on your task bar to Google Docs is no longer working on the Chromebook, you may access the program as follows:

  1. Open Chrome
  2. On the first screen after opening Chrome, in the upper right hand corner of the first screen you will see an icon of nine (9) dots for “Google Apps”
  3. Click on the icon of nine dots
  4. You will see a menu of the following options as well as others: Classroom, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, etc.
  5. Choose the icon to go where you need to go

Ski Club Begins Tomorrow

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As a reminder, the Saint James Ski Club starts tomorrow (Friday).  Students participating (who don’t have a parent coming) may bring their ski equipment to school in the morning and put it inside the gym entrance.

Ski Club volunteers will begin loading the equipment from the gym stairwell onto the bus tomorrow around 1:45pm.

Board Game Club

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Update 1/17:  The Board Game Club is full, but we are looking to determine how many other people are interested.  If you would like to be put on a wait list, please click HERE and fill out the form.

One of our Saint James School parents – Mrs. Piotrowski – is putting together an after-school board game club for students in grades 1-3. Students can come sharpen their gaming skills in chess, checkers, dominoes, and more!  The club will begin next Tuesday, January 23rd, and will be, at this time, limited to 10 kids per session on a first-come basis using the registration form below.

Click HERE to register your 1st – 3rd grade child for the Board Game Club.

Reminder for 8th Grade Parents

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Please note, 8th grade students were was given the attached notice and may need your help.

2018 yearbook information request

Also, as a reminder, the 8th grade graduation date for this year is Friday, June 8th.

1st Penance & 1st Eucharist Information

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Please read the below letter from Macy Jordan, Religious Education Coordinator for Saint James Parish, regarding baptism, 1st Penance, & 1st Eucharist.

Sacraments Letter to SJS Families Jan 2018

Parent Meetings for 1st Penance and 1st Eucharist are as follows:

Sunday – January 28th – 7:00 – 8:30 p..m. OR
Monday – January 29th – 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. OR
Thursday – February 1st – 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

All meetings will take place in the church hall. Only one parent needs to attend and parents only need to attend one meeting. NO STUDENTS.

The First Penance service is on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at Saint James Church. First Eucharist will take place at 10:00 and 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, 2018, also at Saint James Church.

7th Grade Science Fair Wednesday

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Tomorrow, Wednesday, January 17th, is the 7th Grade Science Fair at Saint James School. SJS parents and other guests are welcome to visit between the hours of 8:30am – 12:00pm to view the various projects and chat with the presenters.  Please enter through the main doors and check in at the SJS Main Office before going down to the Gym.

If there is no school tomorrow due to the expected snow, the Science Fair will be held on Monday, January 22nd.

No School Monday

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As a reminder, there is NO SCHOOL this coming Monday — January 15th — for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  We also have a 12:05pm dismissal day on January 24th (aftercare will be in session on January 24th beginning at 12:05pm).

If you would like to subscribe to an electronic calendar of just days off/early dismissal days, you can do so HERE (at the bottom of the page is an option to subscribe to the “filtered” calendar).

Saint James Testimonials on WJMJ

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Yesterday, a few of our parents and students traveled to Prospect, Connecticut to record commercials/testimonials on behalf of Saint James School for the Archdiocese of Hartford’s radio station WJMJ.  Many thanks to Andrea Piotrowski and her children William (4th grade) and Alejandra (3rd grade), Vidhya Thiagarajan and her son Rishi (2nd grade), and Kaitlyn Duran (3rd Grade) for volunteering to record testimonials for our school.  All recorded spots will play on WJMJ (88.9 FM – Hartford; 93.1 FM – Hamden; 107.1 FM – New Haven; 91.1 Fairfield) during the last week of January – which is Catholic Schools Week.

All commercials/testimonials were written by the students themselves and it was so heartwarming to hear their sweet messages. A huge thank you to these parents and students for their time and commitment to our school!  We hope to have a audio copies of the finished products to share once they are edited, but here are a few pictures and footage of Kaitlyn recording her testimonial on why she loves SJS.

Kaitlyn’s testimonial (Click This Link to Play)

 

Box Tops Winner!

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Congratulations to our 5th grade for winning the January Box Tops Dress Down contest!  (The 5th Grade teachers will let you know when your dress down day will occur).

Our volunteers counted over 2,000 Box Tops this time around, which equates to $200 for our school!! Thank you for your participation!

Please keep collecting those Box Tops.  We will be offering another Dress Down contest soon!

Book & Art Club Fun

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Yesterday, the Book & Art Club enjoyed a fun afternoon with a prehistoric friend (see pictures)!  The group also read the books Dinosaurs Go To School and All Aboard the Dino Train and made their own Dinosaur Fossils out of Model Magic.  There were Fossil Rubbings and and each student took home a special dinosaur viewer.  As always, special thanks to Mrs. Sabatella and Mrs. Carpenter for volunteering their time to this fun group and sending in some cute pics!!