Principal's Post
Dear Families,
Last week our Prep students celebrated their 100 Days of School with a day full of joy, learning, and laughter! The day kicked off with 100 stories, songs, 100's and 1000's and counting our 100 special things from home. They loved spending time with their Grade 6 buddies and proudly received their 100 Days certificates.
I tried to join in the fun and dressed as the famously grumpy, Mr Fredricksen from Up.
Our Prep team of Miss Darvell, Mrs Butler, Mrs Broderick, Janelle and Daniella have done such a wonderful job in helping our Preps settle into St James over the past 100 days. It has been a testament to their dedicated hard work that our delightful students are so confident, well adjusted and eager to learn.
Thanks to everyone who helped make the day one to remember, especially the parents who embraced the dress up theme with such creativity and enthusiasm.
Years 4 & 5 - Emmaus Production excursion
This week the Grade 4 and 5 students were guests of Emmaus College at their concert production of 'Cinderella' at The Round Theatre in Mitcham. One of the stars of the show was former St.James student Cooper Dawson in the lead role of the 'Prince'. Other St James past students who starred in the production were Montana Spezza who played a variety of characters and Tate Edwards who was part of the production team. Well done! All the St James kids were very proud of you!
St James P&F Major Social Event
What a fabulous night it was for many parents on Saturday night at our annual Major Social event in our Community Centre.The many hours put into organising, preparing raffles and decorations, setting up and packing up paid off with the great success of the evening. Highlights of the evening included; clever costumes, delightful dancing, fabulous food, wraffle winners, marvellous music and most importantly serious socialising.
And of course, a huge thank you to our Grade 2 champions — Rachel,Ben, Stef, Stefan, Cat, Cecilia, Carly, Ginta, Anoushka and Megan — for all the behind-the-scenes magic that made everything come together so beautifully. Your dedication and hard work made this night such a great success.
A note from our wonderful event organisers:
What an incredible night at Wild West Night! We had so much fun, and it wouldn’t have been the same without all of you who came out to join the festivities. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who generously donated wine for the raffle — your support made it even more special. Huge shout-out to the amazing Kristen Height for being our MC extraordinaire, and a big thank you to Ben Sinclair for his hard work in getting the hall ready for the event.
St James Concert Production Update
Our production of "A World for Everyone: The Journey of a Magic Suitcase"is getting close. Only 1 more week to go. Our full dress rehearsal today was very successful. The students are revved up and ready to wow you with their performances next week. The whole school rehearsal at the venue will be on Monday 11 August. This will be followed by the actual performance on the evenings of Monday 11 August and Tuesday 12 August.
As mentioned via Operoo, an additional 2 x tickets are available for purchase to all families from today, so feel free to click here if you want to include any additional guests. All information you need for your child regarding the Concert is attached below. Keep an eye out for a permission form on Operoo regarding bus transport to and from the rehearsal on Monday 11th August.
Out of Hours School Care - MACSEYE
Please register your children here if you require this service.
If you have any questions you can email MACSEYE
directly at enrolments@macseye.vic.edu.au
News from our Fete Committee
Other updates
It's a special Food Day on Wednesday 6th August
Tickets for our School Disco on Thursday 28th August are now available via CDF Pay.
We also need some volunteer to help ensure its success. Please sign up here if you can help out: https://volunteersignup.org/M37T7
Hope you all have a great week ahead,
Kind regards,
Dave