Congratulations to Mrs. Wojtyna’s 5th grade class for winning the November dress down day. Her class collected 954 Box tops.

Because December is a short month, we will not be collecting Box Tops until the end of January. Therefore, we will award Mrs. Phelan our December dress down as her class collected 911 box tops.

Thank you to all our parents for supporting our school through the Box Tops program!

 

This past weekend, Saint James School 6th graders (and some 7th graders) entered the beautiful Polish Nativity Castles (“Szopka”) they have been working on for their religion studies into a contest sponsored by the Polish Cultural Club in Hartford.  Students, with much guidance from middle school teacher Ms. Carol Oleasz, put a lot of time and effort into making these beautiful palaces depicting the Holy Family and Baby Jesus.

We are excited to announce that Saint James students won first, second, and third place as well as four honorable mentions!  The winners are as follows:

1st Place: Kate Leyden & Colleen Truman

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd Place:  Angela Gerard & Shreya Chopra

3rd Place: Nathan Melia & Sophia Davillier

Honorable Mentions went to:

Chris Constantine;  Emily Goodwin & Olivia Chomick; Ally Ansaldi & Isabelle Ray; Sophie Kisner & Alex M.

 

Below are additional pictures of SJS students with their castles

  

 

Dennis Uniforms is offering 20% off online purchases today plus free shipping on purchases over $85.

 

With the forecast calling for snow tomorrow, we want to remind everyone about our Inclement Weather Policy.  Please remember SJS follows the “Manchester Public Schools” for delays and closings so be sure to look for the “Manchester Public Schools” listing on the TV.  Also, if you have not already done so, please be sure to sign up for the “Manchester Public Schools” delay and closings text-alert from one of the local weather stations.

Below is a copy of the school’s policy for school delays and cancellations due to inclement weather.  For future reference, this document has also been posted on the school’s homepage (bottom right), along with a link to one of our suggested text-alert sign-up alternatives.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the school office at (860) 643-5088 or mainoffice@saintjamesschool.net.

Inclement Weather Information

 

 

 

Congratulations to Kylie Rataic, the winner of the seventh grade Author of the Year project.  This month-long English Literature project had students utilizing research, creativity, persuasive writing, and presentation skills to campaign for a classic literary author of their choosing to be named Author of the Year.

There were three parts to the project: 1) creating a campaign poster, with a catchy slogan that incorporated the title of one of the author’s books; 2) creating an attention-grabbing campaign speech that included specific facts about the author; 3) creating a campaign jingle that used a familiar or made-up tune to highlight facts about the author.

After reviewing the posters and listening to all the campaign speeches and jingles, seventh grade students and teachers voted.  A winner was chosen in both the campaign speech category and the jingle category as well as an overall “Author of the Year” winner.

In the jingle category, seventh grader Justin Clark, who cleverly used the tune “Y-M-C-A” by the Village People to sing “V-O-T-E (for Henry David Thoreau),” tied for first place with Kylie’s “Don’t Stop Voting (for Agatha Christie),” which used the tune of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'”.

In the speech contest, Noah Percy’s campaign speech for C.S. Lewis tied for first with Kylie’s campaign speech for Agatha Christie.  The overall Author of the Year designation was won by Kylie for her author, Agatha Christie.

 

Below are some additional pictures from the project.