St James School Community News

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Parents Association

What a busy couple of weeks it’s been. We have had the Special Friends and Fathers Day Breakfast, Book Week Parade, the St James Soiree, the Holt Carnival, the St James Got Talent Show and the Footy Colours Day on the final day of term.

A huge thanks to Katherine Power and Kate Guirguis for organising the Special Friends and Fathers Day Breakfast and the prep team of volunteers that helped out including Kat, Anika Jane, Mary and Susan.

Thanks also to the volunteers that helped out on the day at the Holt Athletics and for organising the footy colours day for our final day of term.

We wish you a restful and happy school holiday and we will see you back for the final term of school.

Dads Drinks

As it's school holidays on the 21 September, the next Dads and special friends drinks will return in October and are on Thursday 19 October at 7.30pm at 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.

We would love to have you!

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. Sending a 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:

Dads Catch Up - every 3rd Thursday of the month. Next dads drinks booked at 7.30pm on Thursday 19 October 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
Mothers Day Lunch - 18 May 2024 at Elwood Bathers

PARENTS ASSOCIATION FUNDRAISER CALENDAR 2023

Connie Sands & Virginia Pullman

St James PA Co-Chairs

Second Hand Uniform Shop

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.

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.

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