Cross Country Practice For State Competition Runners

Practice is at SJS today, not Wickham. (The HS State Meet was rescheduled from Friday to today. Therefore we cannot get on the course.)  Please pick up at SJS at the normal time.

Regarding Saturday’s MS XC meet at Wickham Park:
Race times are as follows:
Girls A race – 12:15pm
Boys A race – 12:45pm

Please arrive at the park by 10:30.
It will be cold and wet. Runners should dress in layers with plenty of extra clothing, hats, gloves, and jackets.

Final Call: Celebration to Honor Veterans

Our annual Veterans’ Day Celebration will be held on November 12th.  The attached Veterans’ Celebration Form was recently sent home with students.  Please take a few moments to read through and encourage any members of your family who have served (or are currently serving) our country to attend.  The event will be held in our school gym from 9:00am – 10:00am.  Please RSVP by tomorrow.

Celebration to Honor our Veterans Informational Flyer and RSVP Form

Aftercare Subs Needed

Saint James School is in need for AFTERCARE substitutes.  The hours would be Monday – Friday as long as 2:00pm – 5:30pm or as little as 2:00pm – 3:30pm.  Anyone who can help us out is asked to call or email Mrs. Sager in the SJS main office.

 

November Saber Stories & HSA Newsletter

Please take a few moments to review the November Saber Stories Newsletter and HSA Newsletter.

November 2018 Saber Stories

November 2018 HSA Happenings

Last Call: Parent/Teacher Conference Signups

Box Tops Winner

Congratulations to our sixth grade on winning the October Box Tops contest with 754 Box Tops submitted! The students counted 4,247 total Box Tops yesterday so a huge thank you to everyone who sent them in!  (1,239 Box Tops were collected over the past several months from Saint James Church).

Using CHET for Tuition

To anyone wishing to link a CHET account to FACTS for their tuition payments: The first step in the process is to contact your CHET account administrator and ask if they allow third party withdrawals. If they do, then ask them the procedure for doing this. If they don’t then you will have to withdraw the funds from your CHET account and place them in a checking or savings account for FACTS to withdraw your payments, if it is the same account that you are using now to make your tuition payments, you do not need to do anything else. If you are going to use a new account, you will need to log into your FACTS account and add the new account information for FACTS to use.  If you wish to pay the entire amount owed on your tuition you may do so by sending me an email with the date you wish the funds to be withdrawn.

Should you have any further questions, please email them to me at dmayo@saintjamsschool.net .

Important Cross Country Notice

Congratulations to our Middle School Students advancing to the State XC Competition this weekend.  In addition to today’s practice, there will be practice this coming Thursday at Wickham Park.  Mrs. O’Neill is in need of parent volunteers to bring the students to Wickham after school.  Please reach out to her if you can help.

All 5th grade runners and those not advancing to states must hand wash (and line dry) their uniform and return it to Mrs. O’Neill in a baggie (labeled with the child’s name) by the end of this week.  Please remember there is a charge if the uniform is not returned to the school.

Important Reminders For Grandparents’ Day

As a reminder, guests coming to the school tomorrow for students in Kindergarten – 5th grade are asked to enter via the GYM.  The doors will open at 9:45am.

Please remember to tell your visitor(s) which teacher(s) your child/ren have so that our volunteers can easily direct them to the correct classrooms following the assembly. 

Grandparents WITH A HANDICAP PERMIT OR WITH SPECIAL PARKING NEEDS may park in the staff lot in front of the school breezeway.  Please tell guests they can park in the Church lots and make them aware of the change in parking on OTIS street.

Middle school students can be dismissed anytime after 11:30am tomorrow to leave with a grandparent (or special guest) visiting a younger sibling, however a note must be sent to the teacher tomorrow regarding the special dismissal.

Grandparents of middle school students are welcome to come from 11:15 – 11:45am.  They will enter via the main office entrance and volunteers will be on hand to help direct them to the appropriate Middle School classroom (please keep in mind that middle school classrooms are upstairs and we do not have elevators in our building).  Please let them know that students will not be in their homeroom (and therefore they cannot go up) prior to 11:15am.  A note must be sent to the teacher in the morning.

All K – 5th grade students should come in regular uniform tomorrow (no gym uniforms).

12:05PM Dismissal Tomorrow

For students not going home with a grandparent or special person tomorrow:

If your child will be going to aftercare, please remember they will need a lunch from home as no hot lunch is served on early dismissal days.

If your child is going to the walkers line for pickup, we will be OUTSIDE in the lot by the Pre-Kindergarten tomorrow for dismissal.  The gym will be set up for a staff training session and will not be available for dismissal.