Dear Families,
We had a wonderful first day! We did a lot of organizing today and went over all the classroom guidelines and expectations. Your student should have you review and sign our classroom guidelines. Mrs. Sandy, the math teacher, also handed our her class syllabus to be signed as well.
This week we will be taking care of "business" as far as setting up our class routines, but we are also going to jump right in and begin our lessons. Students will have homework starting tomorrow night. We will get our Ipads on Wednesday and at that point I will go over the homework app with the students. All homework will be recorded on the homework app so students can check their homework assignments at any time. You will also be able to sign up for the homework app so that you can be informed as to what their assignments are. I will speak more to that at Back to School night.
THINGS TO KNOW:
- Mass on Friday - please plan on arriving to school a little early as we will walk down to the church with our buddies at 7:50
- This Friday, Sept. 4 is a half-day
- No school on Monday Sept. 7 (Labor Day)
- Back to School Night is Thursday Sept. 10. Meet in the parish hall at 6pm.
- Mandatory Back to School Forms: There are three mandatory forms that must be returned to the office no later than Thursday, September 3rd. They are the: Emergency Information Form, Fever-Pain Relieving Medication Form (must be signed and returned even if no fever/pain relieving meds are to be given) and the Parent-Student Handbook Agreement Form. If these three forms are not in the office by this Thursday, September 3rd, your student will not be admitted to class on Tuesday, September 8th. We also ask that all families complete the St. James Academy directory form and submit this directly on line to be included in the school family directory. There is also a Volunteer Family Plan form that we would like all families to complete. All of these forms can be found below and on our website under Resources/Miscellaneous Forms in the middle of the page where it says Beginning of School Year Forms (Due Sept. 3rd).