Wishing all our students, staff, and families a fun and relaxing week next week (April 12 – 16th). We look forward to seeing everyone back at school on Monday, April 19th! As a reminder, students may switch to wearing their Summer uniform when we return to school.
Please note, the SJS main office WILL be open next week from 8:00am – 2:00pm.
Students may begin wearing their warm weather uniform items (uniform shorts & uniform polo) beginning Monday, April 19th. Middle school parents, please remember if your child is wearing the uniform shorts, they must wear the uniform polo with it (they cannot wear the shirt and tie with shorts).
As a reminder, Saint James School will be closed the week of April 11th for our Spring Recess.
If you will be traveling over break or at any other time for Sports, etc. please note that Manchester has updated their travel policy (which we follow). The policy now states that any out-of-state travel for more than 24 hours requires a quarantine of 10 days or a negative COVID-19 test to return to school. If you will be traveling out of state (for more than 24 hours) at any point, please reach out to Mrs. Vignati (our school nurse) at 860.643.5088 (x3) in advance to discuss required return to school protocol. Current Travel Policy.
As always, we appreciate your support as we work to keep our school community healthy and safe!
The Home & School Association will have their virtual meeting tonight (Tuesday, April 6th) at 6:00pm. The Zoom information is as follows:
Topic: SJS HSA April Meeting
Time: Apr 6, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 867 0654 0707
Passcode: 399493
As of right now, it looks like soccer practices for our school teams will begin sometime after April break. The town of Manchester still has to inspect the fields and release them for us to use.
Coaches will be reaching out to parents once we have information to share.
Please note that the hot lunch offering for Monday and Tuesday are being switched – Monday will be Chicken Tenders and Tuesday will be Maple Glazed Pancakes.
Also, as a reminder, if your child is bringing lunch from home and just purchasing milk at lunchtime, that milk purchase is NOT covered under the (free hot lunch) grant through the town/state. You will need to fund their lunch account for those purchases. You can do this by sending in cash or a check (made out to Manchester Hot Lunch Program) in an envelope with the child’s name or by logging in to the EZSchoolPay system and paying it online.
Our Hats Off To Reading Contest for students in Kindergarten through 6th grade has now concluded (yesterday, March 31st was the last day to log books). Please make sure that your student hands in their signed reading logs to Mrs. Tierney in the Library by this coming Monday, April 5th. Remote learners should turn them in today. We look forward to sharing the results of the contest with you soon!
We also wanted to share this cute Spring “Book Garden” that our Kindergarten through 2nd grade students made in the breezeway during a recent Library class.
Since there is no school tomorrow (Friday), the remote learner pick-up for this week will take place today – Thursday, April 1st – from 2:30 – 4:30pm outside the gymnasium doors.