St James School Community News

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Parents Association

How much fun it was seeing all the children dressed up for the book week parade, certainly some amazing and creative outfits. Good luck to all the kids that are competing in the Holt Athletics this Friday, we wish you all the best.

We are starting to get near the end of the term and there's one more newsletter before we all have a break. There’s lots of dates below and a great idea to pop them in your calendars now.

Fathers Day Breakfast

We are excited to celebrate our St James Dads/Special Person on Friday the 1st of September in the Tilley Garden starting from 7:45am to 8:50am. Thanks to every-one who bought tickets and will celebrate Fathers Day on Friday.

Head to Bounce Friday 8th September

Anyone who is interested, on the school closure day, some of us will be heading to Bounce for a two hour 10am session. All welcome, maybe see you there.

St James Soiree

Piano and guitar students at St James will have the opportunity to perform in a soiree on Tuesday 12 September in the St James Hall. The soiree will start at 5pm to 6pm if any parents and students would like to attend.

St James Got Talent

Some St James children will be putting on a talent show in the hall on Wednesday the 13th of September at 2.30pm. Please feel free to come along and watch the amazing acts.

Footy Colours Day

The year 6’s are hosting a Footy Colours Day on Thursday the 14th of September and it’s a chance to wear all your footy or sport outfits. There will be a special lunch that you can purchase below for $10 including 2 sausages (vegan and vegetarian available), popcorn and a juice box. There will be a parade and some fun games organised.

Please purchase on the below link by Monday the 11 September.

https://www.trybooking.com/CLGHI

Dads Drinks

Dads and Special Friends’ drinks are on Thursday 21 September @ 7.30pm at the Brighton Hotel.

Special Friends and Grandparents' Day

Please pop the date in your calendars for the Grandparents / Special Friends Day on Friday the 27th of October. Please let your grandparents and special friends know. If each St James family could please bring a plate of food to share on the day that would be appreciated. If it is non-perishable food such as biscuits etc. it can be dropped off at the school reception before the day. Please no items that contain nuts.

Christmas Carols and Party

The Christmas Party and Carols will go ahead this year, so please pop the date Thursday

30th of November in your calendars.

There will be carols by the year level, a presentation to Vinnies, a craft stall run by year 5, food to purchase and a visit from Santa. Further details to follow.

Presidents for 2024

Virginia and Connie have volunteered their time for the last 2 years and are retiring at the end of this year as co-presidents of the PA and we are looking for a new president / co-president to take over for 2024. Please let Virginia or Connie know if you are interested and there are plenty of handover notes and a comprehensive google drive with everything saved.

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) Fixing the roof at school 2) A New surface and outdoor furniture or play equipment for the Tilley playground 3) Improving school security 4) New school iPads.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly:

conniesands@bigpond.com

virginiapullman@y7mail.com

FUTURE CALENDAR DATES

Don’t miss a thing. Reminder there is a full school calendar featuring everything in the one place. Check out St James Website page news and events / events for more:

St James Fathers Day breakfast at 7.45-8.50am in the Tilley garden
St James Soiree - Tuesday the 12th of September at 5-6pm
St James Got Talent - Wednesday 13th of September at 2.30pm
Footy Colours Day - Thursday the 14th of September
Dads Catch Up - every 3rd Thursday of the month. Next dads drinks booked at 7.30pm on Thursday 21 September at Hotel Brighton.
Grandparents and special friends’ day - Friday 27th October
Colour run - Friday, 10th November 2023 at Elsternwick Park
St James Christmas Party and Carols - Thursday 30th November
St James Musical - 7 & 8 December - TBC
Dads, Special Friends and Kids Camp at Anglesea YMCA for 22-24 March 2024
Mother’s Day Lunch - 18 May 2024 at Elwood Bathers

PARENTS ASSOCIATION FUNDRAISER CALENDAR 2023

Connie Sands & Virginia Pullman

St James PA Co-Chairs

News from the Second Hand Uniform Shop

A big thank you to all the parents who donated uniforms to the St James’ second hand uniform shop and everyone who supported the shop by buying second hand uniforms. So far we raised $1727.90 this year for St James.

Nothing goes to waste when it comes to your donations. Any items that are worn, have stains or tears are given to Imelda. Imelda repairs and cleans these items and she donates the items to school children in the Philippines. Please see the photo below of some of your donations. If items can’t be salvaged, it gets recycled and used for cleaning cloths.

We plan to have a sale every term. If you can’t make the sale, you can text us and we can put some items aside for you.

Future donations - We are short of the following items: sports tops (10, 12, 14), sports shorts (all sizes), skorts (all sizes). We are also short of mid-size items in general (8, 10). We are also short of boys white shirts (10, 12, 14).

Many thanks for your support.

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

We have seen great success in our new members of our community joining us for our Stay and Play transition playgroup sessions.

Next week we will be conducting our final Stay and Play Transition playgroup sessions for this term in the the Hall with lots of fun Gross motor sports activities with Mrs Mac. The play sessions offer an opportunity for children to meet and play with other children as well as engage in a number of structured activities including PMP, singing, Craft, library, fine motor skills, stories, games and pre writing.

Year 5 Kinder Visits

This term Our Year 5s have been busy visiting the 4 Year old Kinder Children at Hunt, Crossways and both groups at North Brighton Kindergarten. The children took pictures to read to their new friends. This has been a great opportunity for the Year 5s to show their leadership skills and meet their potential new buddies for next year.

Mandi Joplin

Community Engagement Leader

Before and After school care - NEW Provider

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 2023

Monday 27 March -Term 2 Planning

Tuesday 13 June -Term 3 Planning

Friday 8 September -Term 4 Planning

Friday 24 November- Planning Day

2023 Term Dates

2023 term dates 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 31 January (Foundation Students commence Term 1) -06 April Final Day Term 1

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

Year 1 - Year 6 commence Wednesday 01 February 2022

(Y1-6 Student Testing 30 - 31st January)

Term 2 24 April - 23 June

Term 3 10 July - 14 September 3:30pm School Finish

Term 4 02 October - 15 December

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

Please note that lunch orders are made in the Star of the Sea Canteen next to St James.

Lunch Orders will NOT be availabe on the below dates due to scheduled school closure days at Star of the Sea:

6 and 7 November (Melbourne Cup Weekend)

2023 Lunch Order Menu

NB some items are only served on certain days

St James Primary 2023 (2).pdf

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

Community Notices

Brighton Little Aths is a non-for-profit club with 350 members last year ranging in age from 5 to 16 from primary school and secondary schools all across bayside. Being one of the only grass track clubs in Victoria - we have a more low-key, fun approach to our competition than some of our neighbouring clubs.

To kick off the season, we have a free Open Day on Saturday September 16th. This is a chance for kids to come down and get a taste for what Little Aths is all about.Then, the season starts just after the school holidays on Saturday October 7th.

A family focused environment and positive culture where lifelong friendships are formed
Brand new facilities in a convenient location
Baseball is great for both girls and boys
Boys and Girls Ages 6+
No equipment required to come and try