Catholic School’s Week Mass Helpers

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National Catholic Schools Week is an annual celebration of Catholic education in our Country.  During Catholic Schools week (which runs January 28th – February 3rd) Catholic schools across the country will be celebrating and highlighting faith-based education in a variety of ways.  Next week our full flyer of events for CSW will be sent home.

As part of the events, we are asking SJS students to represent our school by attending any of the weekend Masses throughout the Parish in their school uniform.  In addition, we are looking for TWO STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES for select Masses occurring the weekend of the 27th & 28th to hand out a special gift from our school as parishioners enter or leave the Church. With them will be other student representatives, from our sister school St. Bridget  (student representatives in middle school will receive service hour credit).

If your child would like to help, please SIGN UP HERE.  In addition to each helper, we are looking for one alternate per Mass in case one of our primary student volunteers is unable to make it last minute.

Student representatives and alternates should be in Grades 2 – 8, please.

Please Join Us: Volunteer Recognition Mass

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Volunteers play a critical role in supporting our students and staff here at Saint James School – helping with sports & extracurricular activities, running classroom parties, helping with HSA events, and more!  As such, one of our favorite activities during Catholic Schools Week is to show our appreciation to our volunteers for their “Service” to Saint James School.

This year, we will be honoring our volunteers with special prayers and recognition at our school’s 9:00am Mass on Tuesday, January 30th.

If you have volunteered at SJS in any way during last year or this current one, we hope you will join us so that all the students of Saint James School can see the faces of the dedicated parents and family members who donate their time and talents to helping making Saint James School such a wonderful place for our children to learn and grow.

Volunteers able to attend are asked to please complete the following form by Monday, January 22nd:  VOLUNTEER RSVP FORM

MAP Testing Starts Tomorrow

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Please note that students in grade 3-8 will be taking the next round of MAP Tests on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of THIS week.  Please ensure your student is at school on time, otherwise they will have to wait in the main office until testing is done and make up the test another day.  Thank you!

Ski Club Starts Tomorrow

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Ski Club begins on Friday, 1/5.  For students taking the bus to Mount Southington, all of their ski/snowboard gear, attire, change of clothes/shoes, and extra “stuff” can be stored in the gym entrance until the end of the day.  Mrs. Guenther will open the GYM DOORS at 7:25am on Friday morning for you/your student to begin dropping items off.  Please do not unload skis/boards in the “drop and go” area unless it is before 7:30am.

For families driving up, there has been a delay on printing the RFID cards so we will let you know tomorrow via email if they will be in students’ backpacks tomorrow or if you will need to meet up with Mr. Joyner at the mountain to get them.

Varsity Games @ SJS Tonight

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The SJS Varsity boys and girls basketball teams will play our sister school Saint Bridget on our home court this evening.  The girls play at 6:00pm; boys play at 7:15pm.   All are welcome!

Newspaper Club Reminder

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Mrs. Harris would like to remind members of the Newspaper Club that there is NO meeting this month. The club will resume meeting in February.

Math Club Reminder

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For 7th & 8th grade students participating in Math Club with Mrs. Paxi, please note the group will meet after school until 3:00pm on the following Mondays:  January 8, February 5, March 4, and April 15.

Reminder: Inclement Weather Policy

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A reminder about our inclement weather policy as it looks like there may be some snow headed our way this weekend and next week:

2023-2024 Inclement Weather Policy

Please sign up for text and/or email alerts for both “Manchester Public Schools” and “Saint James School – Manchester.”  For your convenience, you can click HERE to sign up for alerts from NBC30 and/or HERE to sign up for alerts from WFSB Channel 3.

Please also make sure you have the SJS App downloaded and Notifications are turned on.

4th Grade STEM Club

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There will be a session of STEM Club on Thursday, January 11, for students in Grade 4.  If your child would like to attend, please complete the permission form.

STEM Club Permission Slip 011124

Extra Curricular Activities Starting This Week!

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As a reminder, Crazy 8s Club and Passport Club both begin this Thursday (1/4) after school and will run until 3:15pm.  Please remember to send in a note to your child’s teacher stating that your student will be staying after and for which club.  Please also indicate if your student will be picked up at 3:15pm or should go to aftercare.

Dismissal at 3:15pm for students being picked up will be in the standard dismissal parking lot (between the main school and pre-k building).  Any questions regarding Crazy 8s should be directed to Mrs. Nunes (cnunes@saintjamesschool.net); for Passport Club questions please contact Mr. Adams (jadams@saintjamesschool.net).

Ski Club begins on Friday, 1/5.  For students taking the bus to Mount Southington, all of their ski/snowboard gear, attire, change of clothes/shoes, and extra “stuff” can be stored in the gym entrance until the end of the day.  Mrs. Guenther will open the GYM DOORS at 7:25am on Friday morning for you/your student to begin dropping items off.  Please do not unload skis/boards in the “drop and go” area unless it is before 7:30am.  After 7:30am, please unload on Otis Street or Church Street.  A separate email will be sent by tomorrow to ski club families with additional details for Friday’s trip.

If your child is going on the bus to Mount Southington, please make sure they bring a note that they are attending Ski Club after school.