If you will not be attending Mass in person this weekend, you can view the St. James Parish virtual Mass for Sunday, January 3rd using the link below (it will be available to view after 6am on Saturday).

https://youtu.be/6VWJCBOd3DU

Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 23rd will be a (free) Red & Green/Christmas-themed dress down day for students and staff.  All standard dress down guidelines apply.

Mrs. Guenther will be available at the GYM entrance between 1:50pm – 2:15pm today for anyone who ordered SJS Spiritwear and has not yet made arrangements to pick it up.  If this does not work for your schedule, please reach out to her at aguenther@saintjamesschool.net.

As a reminder, for students who are normally “in-person” learners, the option to switch to remote learning is reserved only for students who are going to be absent from school for a duration of time due to COVID-related reasons (showing symptoms, possible exposure, awaiting test results, quarantining due to travel, etc.).  A phone call to the school nurse should take place prior to the switch and the nurse will alert the teacher.

If a student is unable to come to school because they had a late night or a parent had car troubles (i.e. personal reasons), the student will be marked absent from school that day (just as they would have prior to this school year) and the work will be made up by the student the following day in school.  The time spent working through the nuances of remote learning for just one day takes away from class time and places an unfair burden on the teacher.

The original post stating the guidelines for remote learning, which has been sent out a few different times, can be found HERE.

As a reminder from last week, to assist us in our safety efforts here at school, we ask that you please do not allow your child/ren to climb/play in the snow banks on our playground areas at pick-up time.  Thank you.