St James School Community News

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Parents Association

Welcome back to Term 2 from the PA! We hope everyone had a lovely Easter Break.

Congratulations to last Term's winners of the Easter Bonnet Parade and Easter Raffle! The Easter Raffle was a great success raising funds to put to good use at St James.

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DONATIONS FOR SILENT AUCTION @ PARENTS NIGHT OUT

If you have anything for the silent auction, please let Collette or Cassie know. Holiday houses, wine, chocolates, books, children’s items, cosmetics or skin care (anything any-one would like to buy). Or if you are a regular at a business, you can ask them for a donation,we like to support and promote local businesses to the school community.

THANKS FROM THE PA

We are very grateful for the continued support of all our parents, the school and local community. All our PA members are volunteers who generously give up their own time to organise our school events.

Contributions from our fundraising efforts will be put towards many areas across the school. Some initial ideas that have strong support from the PA group and school community are

1) Increased security at the school 2) Updating Smart Boards in the classrooms

FUTURE CALENDAR DATES

St James Mothers Day Lunch - Saturday 18th May 2024 at Elwood Bathers
Parents night out - Saturday 3 August 2024 at Brighton Yacht Club
Colour run - Friday, 10th September 2024 at Elsternwick Park
Dad’s Catch Up - every 3rd Thursday of the month. Venue details TBC.

PARENTS ASSOCIATION FUNDRAISER CALENDAR 2024

A friendly reminder that it is not the parents representative responsibility for each year level to organise any allocated event for that year level as well. We need other volunteers from the year to help with allocated events for that year level.

Maryallan and John

St James PA Co-Chairs

Second Hand Uniform Shop

Please reach out to us if you have any uniform enquiries or suggestions.

Liesl & Ali

School Community News

There are lots of exciting things happening in our community in the next few weeks.

St James - STAY AND PLAY - Transition Playgroup & SCHOOL TOURS

Before and After school care

Extend's valuable and informative monthly publication, 'The Link - Community Hub', has just released its latest edition. It provides interesting articles, reviews and ideas for our community to read and share!

Please click below to download the latest edition

The Link - Community Hub April 2024

We sincerely hope you find this resource useful and insightful.

The Extend Team

Parent Google Calendar

The google calendar is designed for parents to keep up to date with school events.

Google Calendar

Please ensure that you are checking the Parent Google Calendar on a regular basis as dates are added throughout the year.

School Closure Days 2024

2024 school closure days are as follows, but please keep in mind that they may be subject to change, as each term, staff have a full day dedicated to staff professional learning and forward planning.

Term 1 Friday 22 March Staff Planning Day Term 2

Term 2 Friday 26 April TIL

Friday 07 June Staff Planning Day Term 3

N.B. Term 2 Early Release Day - Monday 24 June 1:00pm finish Parent/Teacher Interviews

Term 3 Friday 13 September Staff Planning Day Term 4

Friday 20 September TIL

Term 4 Monday 04 November TIL

2024 Term Dates

Term 1 30 January - 28 March (Final Day Term 1 - School finishes at 3:30pm)

Each Wednesday in February Foundation Students are scheduled for individual testing and do not attend school. Full weeks for Foundation commence in March.

Term 2 15 April - 28 June (Final Day Term 2 - School finishes at 3:30pm)

Term 3 15 July - 19 September (Final Day Term 3 - School finishes at 3:30pm)

Term 4 07 October - 17 December (Final Day Term 4 -School finishes at 1:30pm)

Bell Times

Teacher supervision 8:40am - 9:00am

First Bell 9:00am (Music begins playing at 8:55am)

Fruit Break 10am

Morning Recess 11:00am - 11:30am

Morning Eating Time 11:30 am -11:40 am

Lunch Eating Time 1:40pm - 1:50pm

Afternoon Recess 1:50pm - 2.30pm

Dismissal 3:30pm

Teacher supervision 3:30pm -3:45pm

Lunch Orders

Lunch Orders will not be available on certain days, due to Star of the Sea's events calendar.

Friday 17 May and Friday 21 June

Online orders are blocked on these dates.

2024 Lunch Order Menu

NB some items are only served on certain days

2024 Lunch Order Menu.pdf

Details on how to set up your Flexischools account for online ordering.

Scholastic Book Club

Kindly note ordering books via the book club is entirely optional and the book club orders for this catalogue close on FRIDAY 3rd MAY

What is Book Club?

For more than 50 years, Scholastic Book Club has been bringing to the joy of reading to Australian children. Today, Book Club can be found in more than 94% of primary schools across Australia, with a yearly circulation of over 20 million catalogues. Each Issue of Book Club covers ages from 0-12+ years and contains specially curated, age-appropriate titles that have been carefully selected and levelled by a dedicated team of professional booklovers.

Book Club provides families with an affordable and convenient way to access the best in Australian and international children's literature. As well as bridging the important class-to-home reading gap, Book Club also benefits Australian schools—for every Book Club order placed, Scholastic gives back 15% of the order spend to schools to spend on valuable educational resources via its Scholastic Rewards program.

So how does Book Club work?

1. Book Club catalogues arrive at school up to twice a term and can usually be found hiding in your child’s backpack. We encourage you to sit down with your child and go through the catalogue together, discussing any books that sparks your child’s interest.

2. Once your child has made their final selection, head over to our LOOP websiteor app

to place your order. LOOP orders are linked to your school in an easy, safe online process. Registering for LOOP will also keep you up-to-date with all of the latest Book Club news, information on exciting new releases, and our exclusive Book Club special offers.

3. Your school’s Book Club Organiser will then take care of the rest! After they have submitted everyone’s orders, our team get to work packing your child’s order full of exciting things.　

4. Your child’s order is then delivered to their class, ready to take home and be eagerly read. Orders that you have marked as a ‘gift’ in LOOP will be sent to school for you to secretly pick-up instead.

With numerous studies finding that reading at home is a key factor in a child’s lifelong success, Book Club provides a fun and easy way of bringing books into your home.