With a chance of snow again tomorrow during the school day, we wanted to remind families to 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.  Also, we will send an email from the school so please keep an eye on that as well.

If the town calls for an early dismissal:

Pre-K through Grade 8 dismissal is at 11:00am (buses will run).
The Extended Day program will close promptly at 12:00pm

If we have a full day of school but afternoon activities are cancelled, any student staying after for Chess, extra help, etc. would need to be picked up at 2:00pm and the Extended Day program will close promptly at 3:00pm.

Please make sure your student(s) know exactly where they are going tomorrow should either of these situations occur.

Inclement Weather Policy 2022-2023

Due to the inclement weather predicted for this afternoon, all after school activities are cancelled for today.

In addition, Aftercare will be closing at 3:00pm today.

Thank you.

National Catholic Schools Week is an annual celebration of Catholic education in our Country.  During Catholic Schools week (which runs January 29th – February 4th) Catholic schools across the country will be celebrating and highlighting faith-based education in a variety of ways.

In our Parish, 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 ONE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE for select Masses occurring the weekend of the 28th & 29th to hand out a special gift from our school as parishioners leave the Church. With them will be a second student representative, from our sister school St. Bridget  (student representatives in grades 7 & 8 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 our primary student volunteer cannot make it.

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

PENNY CHALLENGE CHECK-IN

In honor of our school’s 100th anniversary, the Saint James School HSA is hosting a Penny Challenge during the month of January for all classrooms (Pre-K3 through Grade 8) – with proceeds benefiting our school and classrooms!  As a reminder, the homeroom that collects the highest quantity of coins (not the total dollar value) as of 2:00pm on January 31st will win a pizza lunch for their classroom.

Here are the Standings as of today (1/23)

4th Jug in progress: Mrs. Jones

2+: Mrs. Gordon, Mrs Piotrowski, Mrs. Gangloff, Mrs. Moran, Mrs. LaMarche, Mrs. St. Jean

1+: Mrs. McQuaid, Mrs. Oei, Mrs. Devanney, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. DiFilippo, Mrs. Vassallo, Pre-K

3/4 Jug:  Mr. Adams, Mrs. DiBenedetto, Mrs. Phelan

1/2 Jug: Ms. Starnick, Mrs. Mitchell

You can check out our fun progress charts in the main school breezeway…

As a reminder, please do not block our neighbors’ driveways when dropping off in the morning or picking up in the afternoon – even if you are only planning to be there a few minutes.  We are fortunate to have a very good relationship with our neighbors but need each of our parents/guardians doing their part to help us maintain that. Thank you for your attention to this and sharing this information with anyone who drops off/picks up your student that may not be on our email.