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School Supplies Donated to Yorktown MiddlePosted on: Friday, September 20, 2013Brother Sherman Hill and past Master Treasurer Donald Livingston present Dr. Susan Hutton with school supplies collected by the Yorkstar-Zedekiah Lodge #117, under the leadership of Worshipful Master Charles Brooks. Read more |
Yorktown Elementary School GardensPosted on: Friday, September 20, 2013Yorktown Elementary School students and staff designed and planted gardens around the school to enhance their science studies. Students learned how growing native plants help native Virginia animal species. Students have observed many insect species thrive in our gardens including the endangered Monarch Butterfly. Read more |
Monster Rules at Seaford ElementaryPosted on: Friday, September 20, 2013After reading The Monster Who Came to School, a story about a monster that attended school and was not aware of rules, second grade students at Seaford Elementary School created their own monsters and wrote a rule for their monster to follow. The classes then created brief movie trailers using the iMovie app and shared their videos with first graders, who had also learned the story this year. This project kicked off the second grade unit on Citizenship. Read more |
Bethel Manor Walks to Live WellPosted on: Friday, September 20, 2013Students and teachers at Bethel Manor Elementary School are Walking to Live Well! Walk to Live Well (WTLW) is a program designed to encourage kids to make healthy life choices such as walking and riding bikes on a daily basis. Each student that participates in the program signs a pledge to walk or ride a bike to school as many days as they possibly can. With each pledge signed, students receive a WTLW water bottle along with information on ways to make healthy and safe choices! Read more |
YHS National Merit Scholarship SemifinalistsPosted on: Friday, September 20, 2013York High School (YHS) is pleased to announce two students in the senior class have been selected as 2014 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. Please join Dr. Kendra Crump and the rest of the Falcon family in congratulating Brian Lee and Shi Jia Wang. The competition is based upon student performance on the PSAT taken during a student’s junior year. Students in this competition show outstanding academic ability as well as potential for success during their post-graduate academic pursuits. We wish them the best as they advance in the competition!! Read more |
Notice to ResidentsPosted on: Monday, September 16, 2013The York County School Division will be implementing another round of efforts to disperse a vulture roost from the York High School property. The division received approval from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to use pyrotechnics to remove the roost due to the damage caused to YCSD buildings. In addition the vultures have been deemed a potential health concern by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service due to the excessive droppings on the property. Read more |
Kindergarten Search for the Gingerbread Man at WMES!Posted on: Monday, September 16, 2013Waller Mill Elementary School gave new kindergarten students a challenge during the first week of the 2013-2014 school year. While students toured the building to learn all about their new school, they were also on the hunt to find a gingerbread man. Congratulations to the students with keen eyes! Read more |
Growing the WMES Learning GardenPosted on: Monday, September 16, 2013Members of the Kiwanis Club of Williamsburg showed off their “green thumbs” recently as they tended to the Learning Garden at Waller Mill Elementary School. Read more |
GHS Named Blue Star SchoolPosted on: Monday, September 16, 2013Grafton High School (GHS) has been designated as a Blue Star School for its students’ success on the W!SE (Working In Support of Education) this past spring. A school receives this award if ten or more students participate in the testing and the overall pass rate of students tested exceeds 75% or higher on the Financial Literacy Certification Test. The test is the only Department of Education-approved industry certification test for finance in Virginia. GHS students in Gina Sidhu’s Economics and Personal Finance classes scored a 93.5% pass rate! Read more |
Colonial Williamsburg Summer InstitutePosted on: Thursday, September 05, 2013School was out for summer, but teachers never stop learning. Kristin Faulk, a Yorktown Elementary School teacher, and Brad Miles, a Tabb Middle School teacher, attended a session of Colonial Williamsburg’s 24th Teacher Institute in July. They were able to attend the session courtesy of a sponsorship from the Historic Triangle Friends of Colonial Williamsburg. Read more |
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