Saint James School is excited to celebrate and honor the Grandparents of our Kindergarten – 5th Grade students on October 27th!  Please review all the details below and complete the RSVP form by Wednesday, October 18th; Guest and dismissal information provided via the RSVP form will be shared with teachers.

Guest Arrival
We will welcome all visitors with a special program in the Gym starting at 10:00am (Gym doors will be open at 9:45am).  After the program, visitors will be guided to the classrooms to enjoy a special activity with their grandchildren.  Please make sure visitor(s) know which teacher your child has.  Also, please keep in mind when determining who to invite that our school has multiple stair levels and no elevators.

Guest Guidelines
While grandparents are our intended special guests for this day, if your K – 5 child does not have a grandparent that is able to join us, a special guest (NOT an SJS parent) is welcome to attend in place of the grandparents.  With limited space in the classroom and the nature of the day, however, if grandparents will be attending please do not invite other individuals as well.  Thank you for understanding.

Dismissal Info
October 27th is a 12:05pm dismissal day, however students may be dismissed with their grandparents when the classroom activities are complete (typically this is around 11:30am).  There is a place in the RSVP form below to note if your student will be staying until 12:05pm or being dismissed early on this day.  Older or younger siblings that are not part of this program may also be dismissed early on this day (please also provide this info in the form).

Grandparents Day RSVP & Dismissal Info Form

 

Please reach out to your child’s teacher with any questions.

As a reminder, Fall Festival/Trunk or Treat RSVPs (and payment to the office if applicable) are due by this Friday (10/6)! Looks to be a great turnout so far, but would love to see a few more families sign up to decorate a trunk if you have the means to do so (since that is a big part of the event!).  You can find all the details and RSVP info HERE.

Saturday’s XC Meet at Wickham park is cancelled due to the forecasted rain.

Thank you to everyone who RSVP’d for the theater club by last Friday’s deadline.  We had a LOT of interest, but thanks to a couple of extra parent volunteers who agreed to help out, Mr. Harris is going to take all of the students who had their paperwork in by the deadline.

Practices will start tomorrow – Wednesday, October 4th – right after school.  Per our standard policy, students attending the Theatre Club tomorrow will need to provide their homeroom teacher with A NOTE FROM HOME stating they have permission to stay after on all Theatre Club Wednesdays.

Student pick-up is promptly at 3:30pm outside the school gymnasium (please do not buzz into the breezeway – wait until Mr. Harris opens the gym doors and dismisses your student to you).  If your child will be going to aftercare after Theatre Club, please make sure you put that in the note.

Mr. Harris will be sending out an email to all participant parents this evening.

 

Starting this Wednesday (10/4) the public schools in town will start their Wednesday early dismissal schedule, which limits the number of buses available for SJS.  Please note the following regarding Wednesday (only) buses:

Bus 31 and bus 27 are not impacted at all.  Afternoon bus number and stop times are the same as all other days.

Bus 29 and 107 are combined;  Bus 32 and 134 are combined.   All parents on these 4 buses should have received an email with their student’s Wednesday stop info and a Google form to complete.

If your child is on Bus 31, 27, 29, or 107 and you didn’t receive an email for your student, please reach out to Mrs. Guenther at aguenther@saintjamesschool.net.  Please complete the Google form by tomorrow (Tuesday) at noon so we can pass details on to the teachers.