Girls Varsity Championship Game TONIGHT
The girl’s varsity Deanery Championship basketball game will be held at Corpus Christi this evening at 6:00pm. All SJS families are welcome to come cheer on our team!
Soirée Thank You!!
A Great Big THANK YOU to everyone who helped with the Soirée this past weekend – particularly event Chair Erin Daley and all the amazing parent volunteers who worked along side her to make this event so successful for our school!
We would especially like to thank everyone who attended the event for their generosity throughout the evening and particularly to Highland Park Market for donating the amazing food and Jen Fiereck for donating her photography services! Together we raised just over $17,000 for our school!!
You can view the gallery of images from the event online HERE. If you would like to purchase any of the pictures, any profit from your purchase will be donated back to SJS.
Congratulations Regional Spelling Bee Winners!
A HUGE Congratulations to Saint James School’s Spelling Bee Winners who represented SJS in the Regional contest last week:
4th Grade – Will Davis;
5th Grade – Christian Tjagvad;
6th Grade – Isabel Taclawan.
Both Christian and Isabel WON the Regional Spelling Bee competition and will now move on to the State Competition later this month!
Instrumental Music Notice
As there is no school this Friday for Good Friday, instrumental music students in Grades 6 – 8 will meet this Wednesday.
April 17th Board Game Club
The next after school board game club will be held on Tuesday, April 17th for students in grades 1 – 3. Please use THIS LINK to RSVP your child.
SJS HSA Gives: St. Baldrick’s Update
Hello SJS students and families!
A quick HSA GIVES update on our upcoming St. Baldrick’s event: the Sabers Team has raised almost $1,100! We are looking for more people to sign up to shave/buzz or just sign up and fund-raise (choose volunteer on our team page, get your own page and ask people to donate) to meet our team goal of $5,000.
Another option is to go to the team page and donate online. St. Baldrick events like ours have already raised over $16 million this year – you can easily see how a little bit from a lot of people can really make an impact!
If you can, we encourage you to come to the event on April 8th at the Hilton Mystic to cheer on our 34 (and still counting!) shavees/buzzers — the spirit of generosity and enthusiasm will certainly make your day. Head shaving starts at 2:30pm and let’s not forget the raffles! Anyone who signs up with our team and raises $10 or more, will get a St Baldrick’s wristband, a button, and some cool stickers. If you raise $50 or more you will also get a St Baldrick’s t shirt! In order to have your t shirt at the event, you need to sign up no later than Sunday, March 25th. Those who sign up after this date will still get t shirts, but they will come in after April 8th. Pediatric cancers claim the life of a child every two minutes. Join us in funding new treatments to give kids a better chance to beat this beast.
Yearbook Orders Due TOMORROW
If you would like your child to receive a yearbook at the end of the school year, TOMORROW (Friday 3/23) is the deadline to order (Grades Pre-K through 7th only…all 8th grade students will automatically receive one). The price per book is $25. Payment should be made by check, made out to Saint James School.
Due Tomorrow: Soccer Paperwork
It’s time to sign up for the 2018 Saint James Soccer season! Boys and girls in grades 3 through 8 are eligible to play. The season runs from early April through mid June. If your child is planning to participate, please click on the link below to read the detailed information from Coach Sargent. The sign-up form should be returned to the school office with the appropriate activity fee (make checks out to “Saint James School”) by Friday, March 23rd. If your child has not previously participated in a sport at SJS this year, you will need to also submit the Athletics Health Form for 2017-2018 (see below).
Please note – we are in need of coaches, particularly for the younger grades (you do not have to have a child playing to coach). To volunteer or if you have any questions about the program, please contact Jon Sargent via telephone at 440-319-8892 or email: sjssoccer@charter.net.
End of School Update
As you know, this has been a very unusual year in terms of the amount of snow days we have incurred. We have been watching each week as a new storm comes into the forecast and have wanted to see signs of spring before we determined/communicated how we would account for all the missed days. Thank you for your patience.
Barring any further weather events cancelling school, our last day of school here at Saint James will be Friday, June 22nd.
We will have full-day sessions on Monday and Tuesday of that week, with early dismissal (12:05pm) on Wednesday (June 20th), Thursday (June 21st), and Friday (June 22nd).
Aftercare WILL be in session on all three of the 12:05pm dismissal days.
There will not be any snow days made up during April vacation as many families (and staff) have travel plans.
The extra week of school in June does impact our summer program and we will communicate over the next few days what the changes to that program will look like.
