 Prayer for the Second Week of Advent
“God of power and mercy, open our hearts in welcome. Remove the things that hinder us from receiving Christ with joy, so that we may share His wisdom and become one with Him when He comes in glory, for He lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen”.  Angel Tree & Christmas Hampers
Advent … a time for waiting and anticipating; a time to prepare our hearts to receive God’s gift of His Son, Jesus. To help us experience the loving act of sharing and giving to those less fortunate, we invite our community to participate in our Advent outreach project: The Angel Tree/Christmas Hamper Campaign. Week-At-A Glance  SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT: PEACE
Monday, Dec. 9: Saints and Games Club (Ms Cathy & Ms. Dougan), JoJo’s Pizza Day Tuesday, Dec. 10: Choir at 12:20 pm (Ms Fitzel), Wednesday, Dec 11: Elf Yourself Day! (How creative can you be?) Please bring in a donation for our Christmas Hampers/Angel Tree, Students get to watch our Christmas Musical.  Wednesday is JO-JO’s PIZZA Night-Take a break from cooking dinner tonight and order Jo-Jo’s pizza, 20% goes right back to St. James School!!! Thank you to our School Council for organizing
Thursday, Dec. 12:Boston Pizza, Stonehaven Manor (grade 3), Tech Club @ 12:20 pm (Grade 3s), Christmas Musical for Stonehaven Manor and Stonehaven Childcare. Friday, Dec. 13: Popcorn Day, Our Christmas Musical (10:30 & 2:15 pm) All Welcome. We hope you will be able to join us. All students K-6 are involved in our Christmas Musical. ___________________________________________________________________ St. James School ‘Christmas Hampers for Families’ Advent Project On Wednesday, December 11th (ELF Yourself Day) we will be having two theme days at St. James to support families in need. Please bring in a toonie/or any donation to support our Advent Project. Gift cards will also be accepted and will go towards supporting our own families in need and also to our sister support school. In total we support 26 families. Thank you so much for your donation and kindness in advance. Parents are most welcome to come and pick an angel from our tree in the front foyer. You can also send a note to the office and we can give it to your child to take home. Please return your gift wrapped and place the angel tag on the top of the gift. We would like all the angels returned by Friday, Dec 13th. Thank you in advance. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Student Voice
Virtue Of The Month: ‘BE’ Patient Here is a video message from our Student Voice: HERE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXCITING NEWS from Mrs. Gorman’s Grade 3 Class: Ms Gorman's Class is on youTube!! They have entered the CBC Music Class Challenge and will be competing with schools across the country for a chance to win some music instruments for the school. With over 100 entries in their category the competition will be tough but they had a blast singing "Shine" the new Paralympic Canadian song. Check out their submission at the following link! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGSCWaBj_ow  School Council: HUGE Thank you to Mrs Ashley Picco and our School Council for another incredible Christmas Craft Fair. We received many compliments...a tribute to the organization, hard work and planning that went into this successful event. Thank you also to parents and staff for bringing in Baked treats.   
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coming Up Dec. 11- Elf Yourself Day for our Christmas Hampers Dec. 13-St James Christmas Play (10:30 am & 2:15 pm) Dec. 17-Advent Mass @ 10:45 am (All Welcome), School Council @ 6:30 pm Dec. 20-Last day before Christmas Holidays Monday, Jan. 6th-First day after Christmas Holidays Please follow us on Twitter: @StJamesOCSB And our website: jam@ocsb.ca
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