November 4, 2009
“Let Me Be As Christ To You”
Good Day! I can’t help wondering if some of you may have missed our big announcement regarding tuition credit. Did you hear that 25% of the profit from your gift card purchases can be credited toward tuition? Or if you prefer, you may designate your 25% toward tuition assistance for others. Scrip order forms are in today’s envelope and always online!
SJA’s Class of 2010 is having a fund raiser tomorrow at California Pizza Kitchen (CPK). Just take the flyer in today’s Wednesday envelope to the Solana Beach CPK for lunch, dinner, or both and 20% of your check will go to supporting graduation activities. You can dine in or take out!
Parent Council Meeting tomorrow, 8am in the Ministry Center. All are invited to attend.
There will be a Gala Kick Off Meeting at 8:00am on Tuesday, November 10th in the Parish Hall. All are invited to stop by for refreshments, hear about preliminary plans and to assist in the planning of our biggest school fundraiser. This is a great way to get involved at the school and to accomplish your 30 hour volunteer commitment. The Gala will be held on Saturday, March 20, 2010.
The flu is here. Though there are no documented cases of H1N1 in our student/staff community, there are many children out sick and several documented cases in our extended community. Families with at risk members who have requested notification are called. All in the community will be notified if we have a documented case in our immediate community. Please continue to use recommended health guidelines.
Semester billings: For those families that pay tuition per semester, your billing is in today’s envelope and is due December 1st. Thank you.
Candy for Mission Circle: Please send any candy into the office by Friday, November 6th. Thank you.
First quarter report cards will be coming home this Friday.
Parent Teacher Conferences begin next Wednesday, November 11th. There will be day care until 5:30 for St. James Academy students only. Also, there is NO junior high morning supervision conference week. Anyone arriving on campus before 7:45 will need to report to daycare.
Interested in community service projects for your children? Kids Korps USA is a nonprofit youth volunteer organization that engages young people, ages 5 through 18, in community service. Its mission is to instill in America’s youth the spirit of giving while providing valuable education in leadership and responsibility. Kids Korps partners with more than 250 national and local non-profit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Special Olympics, Head Start Preschools, children’s hospitals, homeless shelters, senior centers, animal shelters and environmental agencies. To join the SJA Kids Korps chapter or to learn more please visit www.kidskorps.org or contact Janelle Whitton at 858-342-9558, jfwhitton@me.com.
The 8th grade extends a hearty thanks to all who participated in the Sally Foster sale. $2,257 was earned for graduation events. The top seller was second grader Nate Valley who brought in a whopping 24% of total sales. Nate will receive $100 cash for his outstanding effort. The second place seller was third grader Blake Boeh. Blake will receive a $25 iTunes gift card. The top selling class was second grade. They will enjoy a pizza party from Pat and Oscars. Orders will be delivered next Monday Nov. 9. You can continue to order online at sallyfoster.com all year. If you enter our school code 63397, SJA will get 50% of the order amount.
Christmas
is coming! We are looking for choreography,
costume, clean up, organization,
set up, decorating and technical support for the Christmas
pageant.
If you are interested, please email SJA music teacher Mrs. Oldham at:
amoldham@saintjamesacademy.com and let her know your area of
interest.
Eucharistic Minister
liturgical
training on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 10 am to noon in the
Ministry
Center.
Any parents, teens (age 15 & above), teachers, etc.
who would like to be Eucharistic Ministers should attend this
training. Please RSVP to Karen Charest at 760-943-0046 or
ksc927@juno.com.
Joanna Costello has sent in 1,018 Box Tops, which calculates out to a check for $101.80...a great effort for just the first 2 months of school! Please keep this going! It just takes a moment to clip these and earn money for the academy and our students.
Also, this will be the last week for anyone to be able to notify Joanna of missing magazine drive prizes. After this Friday, she will not be able to fulfill prize requests.
Halloween photos
shared by Bill
Kazmierowicz have been posted on our website gallery page, which is
password protected. You will receive a separate email with the user
name and password.
Enclosed in today’s envelope is a
flyer for
Mama’s Kitchen Pies. These were a big hit last year
and it
is a very worthy cause.
Eighth grade will be assisting with the Liturgy this Friday morning. Please join us.
In this week’s "Why do Catholics do that?" find out why we say “Amen” at the end of some prayers.
Items are in your Wednesday envelope today and also on line: Parents in Prayer, Mama’s Kitchen Pies, Thanksgiving Box Tops Sheet