Parents Association
St James’ Parents Association 2020
December Newsletter
To our wonderful St James Community,
Well, what a year we’ve had! We would like to sincerely thank our entire school community for all your hard work and effort towards getting our kids through remote learning and back to school safely and successfully. It was not an easy task and it tested all of us, but we did it with patience, resilience and a positive ‘can-do’ attitude, so well done to you all!
We would like to especially acknowledge Brendan, Carmelina and our entire school teaching community for their courage, leadership, time, and unwavering efforts, prioritising the health and education of our children during a very difficult time for their learning and development. Technology played a key role here in supporting our children to keep connected, informed and engaged in their school life and with each other, albeit from the comfort of home. Technology continues to play this role through the use of the school portal, see-saw and social media channels, and we would like to thank Carmelina for promptly responding to the changes to our learning environment and positioning our school to becoming leaders in this area.
For our Foundation children and families, we feel very grateful to have welcomed Ms Aoife Tierney this year and along with the St James Leadership team, we thank you for your enthusiasm, guidance and support to our new and existing families through a difficult transition year for many young children, new to school life. We acknowledge that both our Foundation and Year 6 levels in particular, have not had the year they expected to start and/or finish their school life with however, we thank all our STJ teachers, students and families for your positive attitude, support and effort to make the most out of this unexpected situation. We hope that the new year brings a fresh start and opportunity to make new long-lasting school friendships and memories, and further strengthen our school community and spirit.
Please click link below to read our full page 2020 Parent’s Association Final Update – “A Year in Review”.
Please view our new 2021 Class Representative(s) & Activity Co-Ordinator’s as follows:
