Please read the information below from Dale Hoyt, Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Hartford

Dear Catholic School Administrators, Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Students, and Friends of Catholic schools:

Thank you for your extremely hard work during the past few weeks, the General Assembly and Governor Malloy decided to fully restore the funding for buses (they also restored virtually all of the funding for public school buses — $24M).

Below is the text of line T625 of the Budget Bill, HB 6704, that shows $3.5M has been restored. The House of Representatives enacted the budget at 12:20am on Sunday, and the Senate will enact the Budget on Monday morning. I think that it is now safe for you to pull the alerts from your school websites. There is no need to make any more phone calls to the State Capitol at this time.

T625
Non-Public School Transportation
3,595,500

This is great news at the start of a new week.

Peace and blessings-
Dale R. Hoyt, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Catholic Schools
Office of Catholic Schools
Archdiocese of Hartford
860-242-4362

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is Field Day for grades Pre-K – 5th Grade.   Students should wear their SJS gym shorts and gym sneakers with the color designated below.  Please remember to apply sunscreen to children in the morning as they will be outside for most of the day.  Students should also bring a water bottle labeled with their name.   School lunch WILL be provided tomorrow.

For parents who have signed up to bring watermelon (please cut into wedges), please drop that off in the breezeway either at morning drop-off or by 9:00am.   Water balloons should be dropped off by the Pre-Kindergarten fence at morning drop-off or by 9:00am.

T-Shirt Colors:

Pre-K – White

K – Red

1st – Orange

2nd – Yellow

3rd – Green

4th – Blue

5th – Purple

Teachers – Pink

 

 

 

Over the past few weeks, the two 5th grade classes have been bringing reading to life.  Working in pairs, students created board games that were based on stories they read.  Their instructions for this project included creating a game board that depicted the setting of the story, game pieces that would represent the characters, and a game ending that would coincide with the conclusion of the book.  The rest was up to the students’ imagination.

Today, the 4th grade classes came up to the 5th grade classrooms to play the various games with their creators.   Kudos to all our 5th grade students on the tremendous job they did with this assignment!

 

On June 5th, from 9:00am-10:30am Saint James School Pre-Kindergarten and Saint James Elementary/Middle School will host our final open house of the year for prospective families interested in learning more about our Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade programs.

In addition, we are still accepting applications for all grades for the 2013-2014 school year.  If you know anyone who is considering Saint James for their child(ren), please have them visit our website (saintjamesschool.net) or call the school office at 860 643.5088 (option 1) for more information on our upcoming Open House or to schedule a private tour.

Thank you to all our students and staff who participated in the green and white dress down day in support of Sandy Hook Elementary School today.  Together we raised $521.00  which will be used to purchase art supplies for the new Sandy Hook Elementary as well as items for the teachers.