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.

Volunteers play a critical role here at Saint James School. Volunteers run many of our fundraising events, social events, and classroom parties. In addition, our sports coaches are all volunteers, many of our after-school activities are run by volunteers, our Saint James School Council (and related committees) are all volunteers, along with the Saint James School Foundation members.  Volunteers provide countless hours tutoring students and helping with marketing-related duties. In short, volunteers play a very important role here at Saint James School!!

As such, one of our important activities during Catholic Schools Week (January 29th – February 4th) is to show our appreciation to our volunteers for their “Service” to Saint James School. This will be done with a special recognition for volunteers during our 9:00am Mass on Monday, January 30th.

Please 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 (link below) by Friday, January 20th.

VOLUNTEER RSVP FORM