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Monster Rules at Seaford Elementary

Posted on: Friday, September 20, 2013

After 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.


Bethel Manor Walks to Live Well

Posted on: Friday, September 20, 2013

Students 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!


YHS National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists

Posted on: Friday, September 20, 2013

York 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!!


Notice to Residents

Posted on: Monday, September 16, 2013

The 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.


Kindergarten Search for the Gingerbread Man at WMES!

Posted on: Monday, September 16, 2013

Waller 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!


Growing the WMES Learning Garden

Posted on: Monday, September 16, 2013

Members of the Kiwanis Club of Williamsburg showed off their “green thumbs” recently as they tended to the Learning Garden at Waller Mill Elementary School.


GHS Named Blue Star School

Posted on: Monday, September 16, 2013

Grafton 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!


Colonial Williamsburg Summer Institute

Posted on: Thursday, September 05, 2013

School 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.


Changing the Way We Learn Science

Posted on: Thursday, September 05, 2013

Teachers from Magruder Elementary spent their summer in an innovative program designed to change how science is taught across Virginia. Carey Phillips and Regina Zimmerman were selected for the Virginia Initiative for Science Teaching and Achievement (VISTA), which kicked off with a four-week Elementary Science Institute at the College of William & Mary.


Tee Time

Posted on: Thursday, September 05, 2013

Yorktown Elementary School students will be provided basic golf instruction in their physical education classes this school year through a partnership with the First Tee of the Virginia Peninsula. The First Tee National School Program, initiated in 2004, is now in nearly six thousand schools across the country. The goal of the program is to give schools the tools to incorporate golf techniques, character values and health lessons into their physical education curriculums.


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