At least one parent/guardian of all students playing basketball this season are asked to attend this evening’s basketball information sessions:
Parents/Guardians of Boys (grades 4-8) — 6:00pm – 6:45pm;
Parents/Guardians of Girls (grades 4-8) — 7:00pm – 7:45pm
Meetings will be held in the cafeteria.
Congratulations to the SJS XC team and Coach O’Neill on another exceptional meet yesterday!! Our girls placed 1st yet again (out of 3 teams competing) and our boys took 2nd (out of 3 teams). In the top 10 for the girls, Lindsay O’Neil came in first overall out of 38 runners, with Abby Ray taking 3rd, Shea Boyle 4th, and Kaitlyn Nyberg in 7th place. For the boys, AJ Bushnell took 2nd place overall, with Jack Green taking 4th, Evan Ansaldi in 11th, and Killian Boyle in 14th out of 60 runners.
Great job Sabers!!
Congratulations to the SJS XC team and Coach O’Neill on another exceptional meet yesterday!! Our girls placed 1st yet again (out of 3 teams competing) and our boys took 2nd (out of 3 teams). In the top 10 for the girls, Lindsay O’Neil came in first overall out of 38 runners, with Abby Ray taking 3rd, Shea Boyle 4th, and Kaitlyn Nyberg in 7th place. For the boys, AJ Bushnell took 2nd place overall, with Jack Green taking 4th, Evan Ansaldi in 11th, and Killian Boyle in 14th out of 60 runners.
Great job Sabers!!
Show your school pride with our 2017-2018 Basketball Spiritwear!
To view available items and/or make a purchase, please utilize our online portal: https://www.saintjamesstore.com/collections/all
Once you have added the items/sizes you want to your shopping cart you can: 1) pay for it online utilizing a credit card, or 2) send a check to the Saint James School office. If you are sending a check to the school office, please label the envelope “Basketball Spiritwear” and include a copy of your order confirmation (which will be e-mailed to you when you place the order online and select “check” as your payment method) and your child’s name. Please note, checks should be make out to the vendor, Artisan Ink (not Saint James).
Orders and payment must be received by THIS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH.
Important Note: Anyone may order the basketball spiritwear, however only students playing basketball will be allowed to wear basketball gear on gym day (pants & sweatshirt only – the standard uniform SJS gym shirt must still be worn on gym day). Please also note, this is not a fundraiser for our school. We hope to have a general school spiritwear fundraiser in the months to come.
Congratulations and Thank You to our 2017-2018 Saint James School volunteers of the year: Mrs. Dufresne & Mrs. Herr. These special volunteers were honored last night at the 40th Hopes Dinner at the Aqua Turf in Southington, where they received the St. John Newmann Award for Volunteer Service.
Both of our 2017-2018 volunteers have done so much for Saint James School throughout their time here! Most recently, Mrs. Herr has been coordinating all of our Saint James School Masses (the monthly children’s Mass held on the 2nd Sunday of each month and the Masses our students attend during school) as well as working with the students that are participating in each one. Mrs. Herr also co-chaired the SJS book fair last year (and the year prior to that), helps with lunch duty regularly, volunteers at HSA events, and is involved in many other volunteer capacities at our school.
Mrs. Dufresne has been volunteering her time at our school library on a weekly basis for several years now, as well as working with Mrs. Zorger (and previously, Mrs. Kanute) on publishing the monthly Saber Stories newsletter. Mrs. Dufresne also runs the Box Tops program for our school. In addition to other volunteer work she does for our school, Mrs. Dufresne has also been an exceptional substitute teacher for our school, often filling in on very short notice.
Saint James School had a great showing at this past weekend’s McGee Invitational at Sage Park Middle School in Berlin. The top 5 runners in each category received a trophy, while the top 20 received medals. Here are the students that placed in the top among their peer group:
8th Grade Girls: Lindsay ONeill – 5th out of 100 runners. Nicole Paquette also placed well for SJS coming in 31st.
8th Grade Boys: AJ Bushnell – 22nd out of 107 runners. Jack Green was close behind in 25th place.
7th Grade Girls: Abby Ray – 5th out of 105 runners, with Kaitlyn Nyberg in 9th and Jillian Vichi in 32nd.
6th Grade Girls: Shea Boyle – 6th, Sara Christina 7th, Sammy Creamer – 18th
6th Grade Boys: Evan Ansaldi – 19th, Erik Ansaldi – 32nd.
Congrats to all our runners and to Coach O’Neill for all the hard work and dedication to our XC program!
Advanced Band will take place tomorrow – Wednesday, 10/18 – instead of Friday this week. Also, for parents with students in Beginning Band this year, please note that the Beginning Band Open House date has been changed to 11/9 at 11:00am (this day is a 12:05pm dismissal day for Fall conferences).
As a reminder, there is a cross country meet tomorrow after school. XC students should remember to bring their uniforms to school tomorrow.
