Congratulations to Mrs. Devanney’s class for winning the April/May Box Tops contest with over 1,000 Box Tops submitted. Mrs. Dufresne and the student volunteers counted over 4,500 Box Tops yesterday – which equated over $450 for our school! Mrs. Devanney will let the students know when their dress down day will occur.
Thank you again to everyone who participated this year. The Box Tops contests will start again in the Fall.
This Wednesday, May 4th, Saint James band students will perform in the school’s annual Spring Concert. The concert for families and friends begins at 6:00pm (please note time change). Instrumental music students should arrive at 5:30pm. For the evening concert, students are reminded to dress in white shirts and black pants for the boys and long black skirts (or black pants) for the girls, plus their school shoes. The students will wear their regular school uniforms during the concert for the school.
To prepare for this event all instrumental music students in grades 4 and 5 will have lessons and band on Tuesday, May 3rd.
We will need several parents to assist the students with their band uniforms for the night concert.
Congratulations to Saint James School 5th grade students Lauren, Jillian, and Abby on winning 1st place in the State Competition (5th grade category) for the video they created and submitted to the Elk Lodge’s Drug Awareness Contest. The trio also won 2nd place in the pre-high school division for all of Connecticut!! Their video will now be forwarded on to the National level of the competition. In addition, SJS 5th graders Alexa, Kaitlyn, Norah, Nikki, and Samara took 2nd place in the State Contest (5th grade) for their video. Alexa also won 2nd place in the 5th grade Poster Contest at the state level! Great work 5th grade! (Thank you to Mrs. Ray for the pictures).
Grab a teacup and lift those pinkies! The Saint James School HSA is hosting a Mother/Daughter Tea on Saturday, May 14, from 11:00am – 1:00pm in the school cafeteria. All girls in Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade should have received an invitation home in their child’s school folder. If you need another invitation, please stop by the main office. Questions should be directed to Kate Davis 70greenbean@sbcglobal.net or Keshet Spadaccini kspaddaccini@att.net. RSVPs will still be accepted tomorrow if you forgot to send it in today.
Box tops will be counted for the next dress down contest this coming Monday, May 2nd, right after school. Please be sure to send in your box tops by the end of the school day (2:05pm) on Monday. This will be the last Box Tops contest for the year.
Saint James School 8th graders recently enjoyed a field trip to the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Below you will find a picture of the SJS class of 2016 in front of the museum (along with the 8th grade homeroom teachers, Mrs. Plourd and Mrs. Gordon, and middle school science teacher, Mrs. Plante) along with two other pictures of the students enjoying the museum.
Below please find the full Saint James Soccer Schedule for tomorrow’s games. The 11:30am game for Saint James Blue was inadvertently left off the original e-mail sent on Wednesday.
VARSITY:
08:00am MCC-2 Corpus Christi-Blue vs St. James-Yellow
09:30am MCC-2 Cornerstone CA vs St. James-Royal
09:30am COAK-3 St. James-Blue vs St. Edward
11:30am COAK-3 St. James-Blue vs St. Paul
J V:
09:00am MCC-1 St. Bernard vs St. James-Gold
09:45am MCC-3 St. James-Gold vs Corpus Christi
08:00am C/Oak-2 St. Edward vs St. James-Ivory
08:00am C/Oak-3 St. James-Pearl vs St. Christopher
08:45am C/Oak-3 St. James-Pearl vs St. James-Ivory
11:30am C/Oak-1 St. James-Cobalt vs St. Gabriel-Gold
12:15pm C/Oak-2 St. James-Cobalt vs St. Martha-Black
Below please find the full Saint James Soccer Schedule for tomorrow’s games. The 11:30am game for Saint James Blue was inadvertently left off the original e-mail sent on Wednesday.
VARSITY:
08:00am MCC-2 Corpus Christi-Blue vs St. James-Yellow
09:30am MCC-2 Cornerstone CA vs St. James-Royal
09:30am COAK-3 St. James-Blue vs St. Edward
11:30am COAK-3 St. James-Blue vs St. Paul
J V:
09:00am MCC-1 St. Bernard vs St. James-Gold
09:45am MCC-3 St. James-Gold vs Corpus Christi
08:00am C/Oak-2 St. Edward vs St. James-Ivory
08:00am C/Oak-3 St. James-Pearl vs St. Christopher
08:45am C/Oak-3 St. James-Pearl vs St. James-Ivory
11:30am C/Oak-1 St. James-Cobalt vs St. Gabriel-Gold
12:15pm C/Oak-2 St. James-Cobalt vs St. Martha-Black
The final middle school dance of the school year will be held at Saint James School this evening (Friday, April 29th). Attire for this dance is casual/standard attire. Saint James School students attending the school dance are asked to bring the following items:
6th graders & Ms. O’s homeroom: individually wrapped snacks (no peanut products please)
8th graders & Mrs. Wolpert’s homeroom: 1 gallon jugs of water
Please bring items to the cafeteria on Friday morning or the gym the night of the school dance.
The dance will run from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Attending students should bring their signed Middle School Dance permission slip and $5.00 entrance fee. If you are available to help chaperone, please contact Darcy Donnelly at ddonnell@travelers.com.
As a reminder, students may begin wearing their warm weather uniform items (uniform shorts and uniform polo shirt) beginning next Monday, May 2nd.