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Tabb Key Club Sponsors Blood Drive

Posted on: Friday, June 10, 2011

The Tabb High School (THS) Key Club sponsored by Michael Martinez with President Jacob Mehr leading the team, collected over 40 pints of blood during the school day-long drive on June 7th. Support from the students, staff and community was overwhelming, keeping the Red Cross staff busy all day.

Yorktown Middle Eighth Grade Honors Social

Posted on: Friday, June 10, 2011

The Yorktown Middle School (YMS) Eighth Grade Academic Honors Social was held on May 31. Eighth grade students that made the Principal’s Honor Roll by receiving straight A's on their report cards for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades and student’s who earned A-B Honor Roll for all three grades, were invited and presented an award for their academic accomplishment. Entertainment for the evening was provided by eighth graders, Matthew Shih, Youngrok Chae, and Katherine Strike, who performed instrumental solos and duets. Antonia Fox, York High School Principal and Elizabeth Roberts, a York High School senior, were the keynote speakers.

The "Mosquito Man" Presents Awards to Grafton Bethel Elementary School Students

Posted on: Friday, June 10, 2011

Mr. Tom Gallagher, also known as the “Mosquito Man”, presented a gift card from Barnes and Noble to the school level winner at Grafton Bethel Elementary School (GBES), Alexis Leherr, of the Mosquito Awareness and Prevention Program Poster contest.

Oyster Restoration Club Field Trip

Posted on: Friday, June 10, 2011

The Oyster Restoration Club of Grafton Middle School (GMS) took a field trip to the oyster reef located in Felgates Creek on the Colonial Parkway May 26. Gwenn Pearson with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation had the students do several water activities. The students tested the creek water for ph and alkalinity. In addition the students planted approximately 6000 juvenile oysters on the established oyster shell reef at the mouth of Felgates Creek. The students learned how to use a seine net to capture different species for identification. Grass shrimp, silver side minnows and small blue crabs were caught in the nets. All species were released.

Division “Road-E-O” Title Goes to YCSD!

Posted on: Friday, June 10, 2011

Ralph Crockett, a York County School Division (YCSD) bus driver since 2006, has been named the 2011 Regional “Road-E-O” Winner as well as the 2011 Local “Road-E-O” winner. Ralph competed in the regional “Road-E-O” where he scored a 558 out of a possible 610 to secure the title. Ralph is the first YCSD bus driver to have ever won the regional title. He also won the regional title in 2010 making this his second consecutive win. He holds the honor of being the local winner for the past four consecutive years. Ralph says “driving in the “Road-E-O” is like playing corn hole, you gotta stay focused.”

First Annual Joseph H. Levi Memorial Scholarship Awarded

Posted on: Friday, June 10, 2011

In November 2010, the York Foundation for Public Education, Inc. (YFPE, Inc.) formed a partnership with the Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia to administer the Joseph H. Levi Memorial Scholarship. The Scholarship is named for Joseph H. Levi, a respected and well-liked teacher and coach at THS for 23 years until retiring in 2010. Just months later, Joe was taken suddenly by cancer. A native of Philadelphia, Joe was a graduate of Villanova University. He relocated to this area in 1976 and was a government teacher for ten years at another local high school. In addition to teaching, Joe was a longtime coach of tennis and wrestling at both schools. At the request of Mr. Levi's family, this memorial scholarship will provide assistance to a senior student athlete from Tabb High.

Outstanding Youth Award Recipients

Posted on: Friday, June 03, 2011

Please join York High School (YHS) in congratulating the recipients of the York County Outstanding Youth Award. Shannon Kuster received the award in the category of Community Service and Elizabeth Roberts received the award for Compassion. Great job ladies!

Making Ice Cream the Old-fashioned Way

Posted on: Friday, June 03, 2011

As part of their Virginia Studies activities, students from Grafton Bethel Elementary School’s (GBES) fourth grade assisted in making ice cream with an old fashioned ice cream maker. Students won this opportunity during the Knowledge Bowl, the culminating activity for the fourth grade Virginia Studies.

Grafton Bethel Fifth Graders Celebrate History on Memorial Day

Posted on: Friday, June 03, 2011

Four Grafton Bethel Elementary School (GBES) fifth graders were awarded prizes for their essays for the Memorial Day contest sponsored by the York County Historical Committee. U.S. Congressman Rob Wittman presented the first, second and third place awards to York County student winners of the "York County Remembers Poster and Essay Contest."

IB Middle Years Programme Students at Yorktown Middle Continue Wind Farm Investigation

Posted on: Friday, May 20, 2011

Sixth grade students in the Yorktown Middle School (YMS) IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) continued their investigation into offshore wind farms and exploration into how U.S. and foreign companies can partner to make ideas a reality. As part of Nancy Feigenbaum's Spanish class, students learned from Heather Rugnetta, Team Lead for the Northrop Grumman part of the project, and Ferman Catalan Apecechea, Chief Engineer for Gamesa, the Spanish corporation leading the investigation into offshore wind energy. Students learned that this project has an interdisciplinary nature, requiring engineers, biologists, lawyers, accountants, and linguists to work together toward the overall goal. This is the second activity in which students have investigated this technology through a partnership between Northrop Grumman and Yorktown Middle School (YMS) that began after viewing a recent article on the new wind farm technology in the Daily Press.

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