Our Parish will be hosting a special Mass for our two Consortium schools (Saint James & Saint Bridget) on Sunday, March 10th at 5:00pm at St. Bartholomew Church.  Students from both schools will serve as Readers, Greeters, Gift Bearers, and Altar Servers. We would love to have our school well represented at the Mass. If your student can help, please use the link below to sign up.

Please note, Readers must be Catholic and in grade 4 or higher; Altar Servers must have altar served at a Catholic Mass previously; Gift Bearers must be Catholic.  All are welcome to be Greeters.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090B48A9AF2DAAF85-48106052-helpers#/

We are excited to announce a delicious way to support Saint James School – our annual Munson’s Chocolate Fundraiser, with delivery of goodies to SJS just in time for Easter!

Now through February 29th please visit https://www.munsonschocolates.com/online-fundraising/st-james-schoolct-2/ to order your favorite chocolate confections.  Once your order is placed online, please print a copy of the final order and send that into the SJS Main office with a check made out to “Saint James School HSA.”  (Munson’s does not have an online payment option at this time).

Please check totals carefully and include your child’s name/and homeroom teacher on all paperwork.

To help our fundraising efforts go even further, we hope you will share the link to our fundraising page with your family and friends!

If you would like to use a paper tally sheet to take orders before placing them online, you can find that here: Munson’s Tally Sheet

A printable version of items for sale and the costs can be viewed here: Munson’s Fundraiser Items

 Orders will be ready for pick up in the gymnasium at dismissal on Tuesday, March 26th.  We will send a reminder in the email blast as we approach that date.

If you have any questions, please contact Saint James School parent volunteer, Caitlin Dennehey at caitlinwlkr@gmail.com.

We appreciate your support!

 

Thank you to all the families that completed the returning family registration process for the upcoming school year.  If you have not had an opportunity to finish the steps in the re-enrollment portal yet and your child/ren will be returning to SJS for Fall 2024, we ask that you do that over the weekend so we may plan accordingly (reach out to Amy Guenther with any questions).

We will be starting new student admissions screenings, visits, and registration next week. If you know of any families that are interested in learning more about Saint James School for Fall 2024, please have them reach out to Amy Guenther.

Our local VFW has shared the following Americana contests with us should your student(s) wish to participate:

VFW Singing Contest

VFW Art Contest

Submissions will be judged at the local level first and sent on to the next level.

For the VFW Art Contest Submissions, please print and complete pages 2 & 3 of the link above and submit those to the SJS Main Office with the student’s entry by Monday, March 25th.

For the VFW Singing Contest, please print the 3rd page (page 2 is blank) and submit that to the SJS Main Office with a flash drive of your student’s performance by Monday, March 25th.  If you would prefer to email the performance to the VFW, you can send it to Shirley McBride at the email address listed on the form.  Please scan and send a copy of page 3 with the submission.

The prizes listed on the form are for winners at the national level, but prizes will be awarded at the local level as well.

 

If your student will be playing soccer for SJS this year, please fill out this Soccer Interest Form (<— click link) so that we can start planning teams/coaching staff, etc.  The CT Catholic Soccer League is co-ed and open to students in grades 3 – 8 (no prior soccer experience is necessary).  Practices have traditionally been held on Wednesday evenings, with games typically on Saturday mornings.

Please complete the form by Friday, February 23rd at the latest.