5th Grade STREAM – Adaptation
Our 5th grade students are learning about animal adaptations in science so this week for their STREAM challenge, the students had to design…
Varsity Gold Wins 6th Straight Game
SJS Boys Varsity Gold cruised to 6th straight win over St Mary’s of Simsbury Tuesday night, 49 to 32, improving overall record to 6 and 1 on the season. Assoc. Head Coach Mark McMullin spoke to the team’s unified effort, and the concentration down the stretch as Boys out scored St Mary’s 24 to 12 in the 4th Qtr, while making 17 of 24 free throws during the game. Evan A and Ale O lead the team in scoring on Tuesday night. The team has a busy month ahead with 7 more games in January. Next up the team will play St. Tims of West Hartford on Saturday at the Northwest Catholic gym (2:30 pm start).
Ski/Snowboard Club Starts Tomorrow
As a reminder, the Saint James Ski/Snowboard Club starts this Friday (1/10). Students participating (who don’t have a parent coming) may bring their ski equipment to school in the morning and put it inside the gym entrance.
Ski Club volunteers will begin loading the equipment from the gym stairwell onto the bus tomorrow around 1:45pm.
All participating families should have received an email from Mrs. Joyner, our parent volunteer coordinator, last night with additional information regarding Friday’s outing.
SJS to be Featured on Better Connecticut!
A huge Thank You to all our students and staff that helped welcome Scot Haney yesterday afternoon…
Keep Christ in Christmas Poster Contest
Congratulations to the winners of the Knights of Columbus 2019 Keep Christ in Christmas Poster Contest! The winners, pictured, were recognized today at Rosary.
Congratulations Virtue of the Month Winners
Congratulations to our December Virtue of the Month winners – nominated by their teachers for exemplifying the virtue of Truthfulness.
Due Tomorrow: Box Tops!
Box tops will be counted after school on Wednesday, January 8th for the next dress-down contest. Please be sure to send in any box tops that you have accumulated by Wednesday morning to help your child’s grade win! (please label name and grade on the container or baggie you send them in).
Christmas Anticipation Mass & Holiday Bowl
Christmas Anticipation Mass today, followed by candy canes from Santa (with help from a few SJS elves), classroom Christmas parties, and the middle school Holiday Bowl = A GREAT way to head into Christmas break! Merry Christmas!
Book & Art Club Fun
The 1st and 2nd graders read read “The Penguin Who Wanted to be Different” and made ornaments out of model magic.
