Students are invited to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday, March 17th by wearing a GREEN SHIRT, along with their regular uniform bottoms.
On Friday, March 19th, we will honor the feast day of St. Joseph by inviting students to wear a RED SHIRT, along with their regular uniform bottoms (if this is your child’s gym day, they would wear their navy sweatpants with the red shirt).
Thank you to everyone who expressed an interest in the SJS Spring Soccer Program. Please note the following:
3rd Grade – Needs a few more students to sign up in order to have a team this year;
5th Grade – Needs a Coach in order to have a team this year;
7th Grade – Needs a Coach AND a few more students in order to have a team this year;
Please reach out to Mr. Green (cgreen@saintjamesschool.net) if you can help coach any of the three grades highlighted or if you would like to add your student to the roster for 3rd or 7th grade. Without coaches or enough students, we cannot run a team for that grade.
Dear SJS Families,
As another great week of learning comes to a close, I wanted to take the opportunity to once again thank you for your continuous efforts to help our school community remain healthy. I am grateful to all our families for heeding the request to be exceedingly cautious this year by keeping students at home if they show any sign of illness and quarantining students who may have had a COVID exposure through sports, family members, etc. I know it does not come without sacrifice to be vigilant.
For those families with in-person learners (and remote learners as well), please continue to be extra cautious when it comes to your family’s well-being. Not only do we want to keep all of our classes in the building throughout the remainder of the school year, but we want everyone in our extended school family to stay healthy and safe.
Thank you again for your support as we work through the challenges (and triumphs!) of this school year. As always, please do not hesitate to reach out to myself or Mrs. Vignati with any questions or concerns.
Enjoy your weekend!
Bridget Zorger, Principal
Thank you to everyone who expressed an interest in the SJS Spring Soccer Program. Please note the following:
3rd Grade – Needs a Coach AND a few more students to sign up in order to have a team this year;
4th Grade – All set – an email will be sent to parents that signed up their student with program information;
5th Grade – Needs a Coach in order to have a team this year;
6th Grade – All set – an email will be sent to parents that signed up their student with program information;
7th Grade – Needs a Coach AND a few more students in order to have a team this year;
8th Grade – All set – an email will be sent to parents that signed up their student with program information;
Please reach out to Mr. Green (cgreen@saintjamesschool.net) if you can help coach any of the three grades highlighted. Without coaches, we cannot run a team for that grade.
This Sunday, March 14th at 9:00am we will have our monthly Children’s Mass at St. James Church.
If you will not be attending Mass in person this weekend, please find below the link for St. James Parish’s Virtual Mass for this weekend: https://youtu.be/kH4YRgSmwxA
Thank you to the families that signed up thus far. Here is a reminder for other families that might be interested in participating:
As a faith-based community, Saint James School students and staff often use the power of prayer to support one another. To broaden the outreach of prayers and build up our support for each other here at SJS, we wish to invite your family to participate in a new program we are launching called Family Prayer Buddies. With this program, SJS families will be paired together and commit to praying for each other every day. Please complete the form below if you are interested in participating. You have the option to choose how much of your own family’s information you would like to share with your prayer buddy family (see form).
https://forms.gle/kmN14vx6yvKJ5v1z8
The Home & School Association has moved their virtual meeting to this coming Tuesday, March 9th at 6:00pm in hopes that more people can attend. The Zoom information is as follows:
Topic: SJS HSA Meeting
Time: Mar 9, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 722 618 3621
Passcode: yFD8fS
As a reminder, Saint James School will have early dismissal days (12:05pm) tomorrow – Wednesday, March 10th – and Thursday, March 11th. Students going to Aftercare on those days will need a lunch from home (no hot lunch is served on early dismissal days).
We are excited to announce that plans are underway for the 2021 Connecticut Catholic School Spring Soccer Season! The season will run from mid April through early June and will follow the CIAC Health and Safety Protocol for spring sports. Students in grades 3 – 8 are eligible to participate in the soccer program and no previous soccer experience is required.
Please note that students will need the 2020-2021 Athletics Health Permission Form completed and signed by their doctor in order to play (you may email Mrs. Sager in the front office – lsager@saintjamesschool.net – if you are unsure whether or not your child has a form on file this year).
If your child/ren is interested in playing soccer for SJS this year, please complete the attached form by Tuesday, March 9th. We are also in need of coaches and parent volunteers to oversee the students on the sidelines.
https://forms.gle/5hvJGA9Z6gJrnBrq6
For each remote learner in your family, please let us know if they will return to in-person learning on March 25th or if they will continue as a remote learner through the end of the year. Please respond either way (returning or not returning) by Tuesday, March 9th.