October Saber Stories & Calendars

Please read the October Saber Stories Newsletter from Mrs. Zorger.

Saber Stories OCTOBER 2020

Also attached below is the October Events Calendar and October Lunch Menu.

Calendar Pages – OCTOBER 2020

St. James LunchMenu – October

Health Protocol Clarification

To clarify a point from our school’s Health & Wellness Plan:

If a student tests positive for COVID-19 or has been exposed/in contact with someone who has tested positive, the parent/guardian should call Mrs. Vignati (our school nurse) immediately.   If a positive test result is received after 3:00pm or over a weekend, please email Mrs. Zorger immediately at bzorger@saintjamesschool.net.

Please remember to do a health assessment on your child every morning and keep them home if they are experiencing any symptoms of illness, always erring on the side of caution.  You can refer to the following , which is also posted on our school’s Fall 2020/COVID Informational Page.

 

12:05pm Dismissal Tomorrow (Tuesday)

As a reminder, tomorrow ( Tuesday 9/29) is a 12:05pm dismissal day.  Aftercare will be in session, but all students attending aftercare will all need to bring a lunch from home (no hot lunch is served on early dismissal days).

If you have not already done so, you may wish to click HERE and choose “subscribe to filtered calendar” at the bottom.  This will add just our days off/early dismissal days to your calendar.  Or, you can  click on the calendar tile in our SJS App and use the “+” next to important events  (such as days off/early dismissal days) to add them to your personal calendar.

Box Tops Winner

The winner of the first Box Tops Contest of the school year is kindergarten with a total of 122 Box Tops!  The teachers will let students/parents know when the dress down day will occur.  The total number of Box Tops counted was 377.

Please remember to keep clipping physical box tops and if you have not already done so, please download the new Box Tops App so you can scan receipts to earn money for our school!

Attention Parents of 7th & 8th Grade Boys

Xavier High School will offer two ways for prospective students and their parents to learn more about the school. Xavier will be hosting an in-person open house on October 18th with start times from 1 to 3:30 pm. The open house will give families an overview of Xavier and an opportunity to see the school. Families are asked to limit their party to three. Advance registration is required and can be done here. For those unable to attend the open house, we will have a virtual information session on October 19 at 6:30 pm. Advance registration is required and can be done here.

 

8th graders can begin their application to Xavier today. Start by completing the application for admission form and selecting a test registration date. The Entrance Exam will be offered on November 7 and 14 in person at Xavier. Families opting for an online test or a 1:1 test session can contact Nicholas Grasso, Director of Admissions through e-mail (nmgrasso@xavierhighschool.org), for more information about those options. All application materials, which include essay, letters of recommendation, and report cards are due by November 23.

Attention Remote Learners

Just a reminder to our remote learner families that students need to be logged in to their class by 8:00am to be counted as attending school.  We are starting to see students arrive “late” which is disruptive to the class and the classroom routine.

Also, for our remote learners in the upper grades, the teachers will be providing a half-day schedule for you to follow on Tuesday.  Please make sure you are in receipt of that prior to Tuesday morning.

Virtual Mass for this Weekend

Here is the link to the Saint James Parish Mass for Sunday, September 27th, 2020.

https://youtu.be/sTweHIOLKGA

 

 

Cherrydale Fundraiser Turn in Day Tomorrow

If your child has any tickets for the Cherrydale “Oinksterz” prizes, please send them in with your child tomorrow.  Tickets will be processed and “Oinksterz” will be sent home early next week.

Reminder: Beginning Band Tomorrow

Beginning band students please remember to bring your instruments to school tomorrow.

Fall Fundraiser

Hopefully by now everyone has registered their student(s) for our Cherrydale Fall Fundraiser.  Please note when registering, our school is listed in the drop down as “St James School – Manchester 06040-5996” (you need to type it with no period after the “St” to get it to populate).

Here is a short video you can watch with some helpful information about registering and tracking sales and prizes:  https://youtu.be/Od2p9W9zZaM?list=PL50fl90Wbvi-ZcMWhIKucfXzb8U0rAX7q

And, here is a fun video you can watch with your student(s) about the Oinksterz prizes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqAV52hJwz8

Our first “Oinksterz” coupon turn in day is this Friday, 9/25.