2nd Grade Gingerbread Houses

Saint James School Hosts Christmas Eve Mass @ 4pm

Saint James School will host the 4:00pm Mass at Saint James Church on December 24th, Christmas Eve.  The school choir will perform in addition to SJS students serving as readers, gift bearers, and ushers.  If you are unable to attend on the 24th at 4:00pm, the full Christmas Mass schedule for Saint James Parish is as follows:

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES
Monday, December 24th:
4:00 p.m. St. James Church
4:00 p.m. Assumption Church
6:00 p.m. St. James Church
12:00a.m. Midnight Mass at St. James Church (Christmas Carols & Hymns beginning at 11:15p.m.)

CHRISTMAS DAY SERVICES
Tuesday, December 25th:
9:00 a.m. St. James Church
10:00 a.m. Assumption Church
11:00 a.m. St. James Church

 

Virtue of the Month Winners

As you may recall, each month Saint James K – 8 students are studying a different virtue as part of their religion classes.  Today during the Advent wreath lighting, Mrs. Zorger recognized two students from each homeroom (K-8) that were selected by their teachers for exhibiting the virtue of peace (peaceful demeanor or a peacemaker among their peers), our virtue for the past month.

Below is a picture of the students (who were present for our Advent wreath lighting this morning) who received the peace-maker award. Way to go SABERS!  The next virtue is LOVE.

 

Due Tomorrow: 2018 Tree of Blessings Ornament Orders

Please see the attached information on the 2018 Saint James School Tree of Blessings.   Tree of Blessings Order Form 2018

A special Prayer Service honoring the named individuals will be held on WEDNESDAY, December 19th at 9:00am in the gymnasium of Saint James School (SJS parents are welcome to attend – please enter through main office doors and sign in at the office).

Extra order forms will be available in the school office or at the exits of Saint James Church.  Please have all order forms in to the school office by Friday, December 14th. All proceeds will benefit SJS.

Below are a couple of pictures from last year of our annual Tree of Blessings.

3rd & 4th Book/Art Club

For yesterday’s Book & Art Club, students listened to A Charlie Brown Christmas on a record player (so the kids can see how we listened to music in the “olden” days), then they made Christmas tree decorations.  Special thanks to Mrs. Carpenter for sending along these cute pictures.

PJ/Comfy Clothes Day Raises Over $500!

Christmas Store 2018 Pics & Thank You

TODAY ONLY: Lands End Pants – 60% Off!

Lands End Sale –

60% off full-price pants; 50% off all other full-price styles
code: HAZELNUT pin: 2264

Good through Midnight tonight only.

Hour of Code 2018

In case you missed it:  Last week Saint James School students participated in the worldwide #HourOfCode in honor of Computer Science Education Week.  Special thanks to our SJS STREAM Coordinator, Mrs. Poth, for organizing these fun sessions for our students.  Check out our compilation of videos and pictures taken during some of the sessions: https://youtu.be/V6mwKQFo9uE. 

We also posted this on our Facebook page.

2018 Annual Fund Update & Thank You

As the calendar year draws to a close, we wish to extend a special Thank You to all the members of the Saint James community who have generously supported our 2018 Annual Fund Campaign. To date, we have raised $48,211 thanks to strong participation from our SJS parents, grandparents, alumni, parishioners, and other friends of the school.

As previously noted, this year’s donations are helping offset the substantial cost of replacing the roof on our school’s gym/cafeteria wing (which was the original roof from this section of our school, added in the 1960’s!)

Annual fund donations, which come directly to our school, have helped us make many critical improvements in recent  years such as bright, energy-efficient windows in the majority of our school and new energy-efficient roofs over our classrooms, breezeway, and now the gymnasium/ cafeteria wing. The impact of these improvements on our school facility has been significant and we thank you for your support.

If you have not yet made a (tax-deductible) donation to the Saint James School 2018 Annual Fund Campaign, we hope that you will consider helping Saint James School stay strong for the future by making a contribution today.  Every donation makes a difference!

Please visit www.saintjamesschool.net/annualfund for more information.  As always, we thank you for all you do to support of our great school!