Today’s after-school STEM Club for grades 1&2 has been rescheduled to Monday, December 16th. If your child was signed up to attend today and cannot make it on December 16th, please email Mrs. Poth at apoth@saintjamesschool.net. The website and app calendars have both been updated to reflect the new date.
Dear Saint James School Families,
On behalf of the Saint James School staff and faculty, I want to wish all of our families a blessed Thanksgiving. We are thankful for you and the support you give to our school community!
As we gather with family and friends this Thanksgiving, let us be especially mindful of our many blessings. Let us keep in our prayers those that may be facing hardship during this holiday and those who are serving our country and cannot be home with their families.
Enjoy the long holiday weekend with your family and friends and we will look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday, December 2nd.
Peace and blessings,
Mrs. Zorger
The December 2019 Lunch Calendar has been posted on our SJS App as well as on our school’s website. A copy can also be downloaded and printed HERE.
This weekend, students participating in the Polish Nativity Castle (“Szopka”) Club will have their creations judged at the 39th annual Szopka competition at the Polish Cultural Club in Hartford. The event will be held this coming Sunday and is open to the public if you would like to stop by. Students, with much guidance from middle school teacher Mrs. Grondin, have put a lot of time and effort into making these beautiful palaces depicting the Holy Family and Baby Jesus. We wish them the best of luck in the competition! For more information on the event, please click HERE.
As a reminder, tomorrow is a 12:05pm dismissal day. We are off on Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving Holiday.
As previously communicated, there is a change with the Manchester school bus schedule tomorrow (the bus will leave our school at 11:00am due to a conflict with the public school schedule).
If your child normally takes the school bus home, please make sure you remind them how they are getting home tomorrow (information submitted from parents through the Google form has already been passed along to the teachers).
If your child is going to AFTERCARE, please remember they will need a lunch from home.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year….Soiree planning time, the biggest fundraiser of the year! There will be a meeting on Monday, December 9th at 7:30pm at the home of Erin Daley, our parent volunteer event chair. Anyone interested in being a part of the planning is welcome to attend. Please email Erin at erindaley@pm.me for address information.
The school bus dismissal time for this coming Wednesday (11/27) and a couple of other days throughout the year have changed. We have also had to make a change to our inclement weather early dismissal policy.
Please read this letter from Mrs. Zorger regarding the changes: School Bus Time Change & Early Dismissal Change Letter From Mrs. Zorger
Attention Parents of Bus Students:
If your child typically uses the school bus to get home from school, you will need to let us know how your student will be getting home this coming Wednesday, November 27th by completing THIS FORM.
Information in this form will be passed along to the office and the teachers first thing tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.
All families are asked to pay special attention to the part in the letter about inclement weather early dismissals, which will now take place at 10:00am.
As a reminder, 1st trimester report cards were sent home with students on Friday. If you have not already done so, please sign the envelope and send it back to school with your student.
A reminder on this week’s schedule:
Tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/26) we have a full day of school.
Wednesday (11/27) is an early dismissal day. Aftercare will be in session beginning at 12:05pm, however students will need to bring a lunch from home (no hot lunch or milk served).
There is no school on Thursday or Friday of this week for the Thanksgiving break.
This Wednesday, November 27th, students in grades K-8 and staff will attend Mass at St. James Church at 9:15pm. As always, our SJS Parents/Grandparents are welcome to attend Mass with us (please sit in the back few rows of the pews).