Author: Jennifer Moran
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SJS School Spirit on Full Blast: Today’s Pep Rally Was One for the Books!
Our entire student body ended the school day with a fun pep rally celebrating our students and their success. Recently, we challenged our school and parish community to sell 250 raffle tickets in one week. Within that week, we sold more than 500 raffle tickets doubling our goal. Because we met our sales goal, our…
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SJS Inducts First Class of Junior Beta Club
This year marks an exciting milestone for our school as we proudly launch our very first Junior Beta club. Founded on the pillars of academic achievement, character, leadership, and service, the Junior Beta Club provides students with meaningful opportunities to grow as leaders while serving their school and community. On Monday this week, we celebrated…
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Eighth Graders Visit EC3
Today our eighth grade students visited EC3 to explore all it has to offer. Immediately when arriving on the EC3 campus, the students were met by a familiar face as their tour guide was SJS alum AJ Garris (2022). As a current student at EC3, AJ was a great resource to provide a tour and…
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Sixth Graders Share Christmas Story with Younger Students
Our 6th grade students just finished a literature assignment that included writing and illustrating a Christmas book. The students visited the 2nd grade classes this week to share the books they created. The 6th graders read the books to the younger students and talked through the illustrations with them. They also spent a bit of…
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Saint Nick visits SJS!
Saint Nick visited our students this week sharing the story of his life and providing each of them with a small gift. The visit from Saint Nick has been a tradition at SJS for several decades. Many thanks to our PTO for continuing this tradition and providing our students with a hands on lesson about…
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Living Wax Museum
Our 6th and 7th grade Theology students continued the tradition of hosting a living wax museum during the month of November featuring a variety of saints. The students were assigned a saint to study and learn about his/her life. They were then charged with preparing a presentation to explain the life of the saint. The…
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SJS Honors Veterans
The annual SJS Veterans Day program was held on November 6 with more than 100 veterans and active service men and women in attendance. The program consisted of the presentation of colors by the Elizabethtown High School ROTC, the POW/MIA Table Ceremony, Musical performances and remarks shared by a number of SJS students, as well…
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Saints and Character Dress Up Day at SJS
Our students, faculty and staff were asked to dress up as either a saint or a favorite book character today. There was a wide variety of costumes roaming the hallways and everyone had a lot of fun. There is a photo gallery from the day linked here…take a peek and enjoy!
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SJS Kindergartners Visit the Pumpkin Patch
A favorite field trip for our kindergarten students each year is the trip to the pumpkin patch! Our students too their annual trip last week and learned all about apple trees and pumpkin life cycles. After returning from the trip, Mrs. Peak’s class conducted some pumpkin investigations to see how much our pumpkins weighed, how…
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Grandparents Visit SJS!
Saint James Catholic School welcomed more than 300 visitors for Grandparent’s Day on Tuesday this week. Many thanks to our PTO for planning a wonderful event that everyone enjoyed – food, photos, and fun! With an event of this scale, we are reminded of what a wonderful community we have here at SJS. Many thanks…