A huge thank you to all our guests who visited Saint James School during Grandparents’ and Special Persons’ day yesterday. After a short performance by the band and various classes, guests visited in the classrooms with their SJS student(s) and participated in fun activities. Below are some pictures we took throughout the morning (click pictures to enlarge).
A huge thank you to all our guests who visited Saint James School during Grandparents’ and Special Persons’ day yesterday. After a short performance by the band and various classes, guests visited in the classrooms with their SJS student(s) and participated in fun activities. Below are some pictures we took throughout the morning (click pictures to enlarge).
Tonight – Thursday October 20th
5 pm to 7 pm Girls Grade 6, 7 & 8 Tryouts/Team selection
Sunday October 23rd Open Gym
1 pm to 2:30 pm Boys 4 & 5th
Monday October 24th
5 pm to 7 pm Girls Grade 6, 7 & 8 Tryouts/Team selection
7pm to 8:30 pm Boys 7 & 8th Grade Tryouts/Team Selection
A list of currently scheduled basketball events can be seen on our school’s Basketball Page, located under the Extracurricular Activities Tab.
There will be no gym class tomorrow due to Grandparents’ and Special Persons’ day. All students who typically have gym on Thursdays should wear their regular (warm weather) school uniform.
Please join us this evening (Wednesday, October 19th) at 6:30pm in the school gym as Saint James School presents our 2016 State of the School Address. During this annual, informational meeting we will be discussing our school’s performance in critical areas such as enrollment, finances, and standardized testing as well as current major initiatives and more. We encourage all SJS parents to come be part of this informative evening.
The Advanced band will perform tomorrow, Thursday October 20th, for Grandparents Day. Students who normally take lessons and band on Thursday in grades 4 and 5 will receive lesson on Friday October 21st.
Congratulations to Coach O’Neill and her SJS XC runners on another stellar performance at the McGee Invitational this past Saturday. Each race was broken down by gender and grade, with more than 100 runners per race competing. Top performers in their respective events were as follows:
6th grade: Abby Ray and Kaitlyn Nyberg received trophies for placing 3rd and 5th respectively. Ben Creamer took home a medal for placing 19th (medals were awarded to the top 20 finishers).
7th grade: Lindsay O’Neill also had a great race winning a trophy for her 3rd place performance. AJ Bushnell took home a medal for an 18th place finish.
8th grade: Isabelle Burke brought home a medal, placing 19th. Kyle Pelletier placed 13th, earning a medal.
The team’s next race is tomorrow – Wednesday – at Timothy Edwards Middle School in South Windsor. Good luck Sabers!
Below is the basketball schedule for the week. Remember, your child MUST have their health form on file at the SJS Main Office in order to participate.
Monday October 17th
5 pm to 6:30 pm Boys 6th Grade Tryouts/Team selection
6:30 to 8:30 pm Boys 7 & 8th Grade Tryouts/Team Selection
Thursday October 20th
5 pm to 7 pm Girls Grade 6, 7 & 8 Tryouts/Team selection
Sunday October 23rd Open Gym
1 pm to 2:30 pm Boys 4 & 5th
Monday October 24th
5 pm to 7 pm Girls Grade 6, 7 & 8 Tryouts/Team selection
7pm to 8:30 pm Boys 7 & 8th Grade Tryouts/Team Selection
A list of currently scheduled basketball events can be seen on our school’s Basketball Page, located under the Extracurricular Activities Tab.
Congratulations to all the runners at Saturday’s Manchester Elementary School Cross Country Challenge at Manchester High School. SJS runners took home 24 individual medals (given to the first 15 finishers in each race) and an amazing 4 First Place Trophies and 2 Second Place Trophies (based on the combined score of the top 5 finishers from each school). This means, SJS scored in the top 2 (out of 11 Manchester schools participating) in 6 of the 8 races! Top scorers were recognized on the morning announcements today.
A huge thank you to all the parents, students, and teachers who came out for this fun event and also to our awesome parent volunteers: Mr. & Mrs. Piotrowski, Mrs. Caldwell, Mrs. Poth, and Mrs. Herr.
Below are some pictures from Saturday’s event (click to enlarge).
The SJS cross country team was back at Illing Middle School yesterday. This time it was a tri-meet against Illing and Ellington. The girls again raced to a first place finish with the top 5 runners for Saint James taking 2nd – 6th place! Lindsay O’Neill led the charge, placing 2nd overall with Isabelle Burke, Ally Ansaldi, Kaitlyn Nyberg, and Liz Munns running close together for 3rd-6th place respectively.
Winning the boys race with a first place finish was Kyle Pelletier, who bettered his time by almost a full minute from last week’s race. AJ Bushnell, who has been consistently improving his time, took 2nd for the team and 5th overall. Dominic Cavallo and Kevin Leger both ran strong races, placing 8th and 9th, while 5th grader Eric Ansaldi ran his best race, placing 14th and bettering his best time by a minute and a half.
The team’s next competition will be the McGee Invitational at Sage Park in Berlin on Saturday. All runners must be at the course by 8:15am.
Pictures from last weekend’s Wickham Park Invitational can be viewed HERE.
