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Two YCSD Schools Listed Among Nations BestPosted on: Friday, April 19, 2013Two York County School Division high schools made The Washington Post's annual list of the top public high schools in the country. Of the 1,900 schools listed, Bruton High School was ranked 501 and York High School was ranked 517 nationally. Only two other peninsula area high schools were recognized on the list. The High School Challenge Index uses the number of Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate (IB) tests taken by students at individual schools during the 2011-2012 school year divided by the school's total number of graduates, to rank schools. The Washington Post considers the formula as a measure of student readiness for college. Read more |
TES Gets Filmed while Skyping with a Classroom in BrazilPosted on: Friday, April 12, 2013Mr. Steiner's second grade class at Tabb Elementary School recently Skyped with a second grade class in Brazil while participating in a Skye Documentary. Alyssa McCray, Jelissa Coleman and Jordan Rogers were interviewed by the Skype documentary crew about their experience. Read more |
Holocaust Remembrance Quilt Presented to the Jewish Community Center of the PeninsulaPosted on: Friday, April 12, 2013Katie Bookbinder's Yorktown Middle School geometry students transformed a math assignment involving congruent triangles, area and perimeter into a quilt to commemorate the lives of all those affected by the Holocaust. The students presented the quilt to the local Jewish Community Center of the Peninsula on the afternoon of April 7, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The quilt is on display at the Jewish Community Center. Read more |
Coast Guard Contest Winners at Yorktown ElementaryPosted on: Friday, April 12, 2013Yorktown Elementary Art students combined engineering skills with art to create amazing posters of innovative future ships. Students were asked to design a ship that transports goods more environmentally friendly; or uses an alternative fuel in the International Coast Guard/Jason Project, Let's Make Ships Greener Art Contest open to K-12 grades. Six 1st place winners were chosen from K-5; and six were chosen from 6-12 grades. Matthew Petrie was selected as the Grand prize winner of the contest. Krupa Patel, Maanov Patel and Caroline Allmon were chosen as first prize winners. Read more |
Yorktown Middle "Reads to Feed"Posted on: Friday, April 12, 2013As part of Yorktown Middle School's annual Read Across America celebration, the English Department challenged students to read on behalf of Heifer International, a nonprofit organization that seeks to end world hunger. Students read from March 1 to March 22 and collected $2,298.80 through the Read to Feed program. They purchased two heifers, one water buffalo, three llama, one goat, one sheep, and an assortment of trees, bees, rabbits, chicks and ducks. Read more |
TES Reads Across AmericaPosted on: Friday, April 12, 2013In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday and "Read Across America" month in March, parents, family and community volunteers were invited to read to students in host classrooms. Captain David Outten, a firefighter for York County Fire Department for 30+ years, read a Dr. Seuss book to Carol Gratton's second graders at Tabb Elementary School. Read more |
YMS BoB Team Takes Third Place!Posted on: Friday, April 12, 2013For the second year, Yorktown Middle School placed third out of all the participating middle schools from Hampton, Newport News and Williamsburg at the regional Battle of the Books competition held at the Williamsburg Regional Library in March. Read more |
Grafton Bethel 4th Graders Stage Silent ProtestPosted on: Friday, April 12, 2013Students in Mrs. McKisson's fourth grade literature group at Grafton Bethel Elementary School staged a protest after reading Kids Discover-Civil Rights. After creating posters to state their argument, students paraded through the school in a silent protest. Read more |
YES Book Fair at Barnes and NoblePosted on: Friday, April 12, 2013Yorktown Elementary School (YES) enjoyed a special book fair at Barnes and Noble in March. The evening was filled with a robotics demonstration, storytime with YES teachers, Cookie and Cocoa Party in the cafe, Readers' Theatre Performance by second graders, math and science demonstrations, chess games, YES art exhibit, and a special table filled with student-author books on display. Read more |
YCSD Employee Earns Regional HonorPosted on: Friday, March 29, 2013Congratulations to Brendina Tobias, School Social Worker for the York County School Division, for being named as the recipient of the 2013 Volunteer Service Award through the Mid-Atlantic District Conference of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club. This award reflects her commitment to community service and her impact as a volunteer. The Mid-Atlantic District is comprised of clubs from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia. Read more |
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