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National Junior Honor Society New Members at YMSPosted on: Thursday, December 09, 2010Thirteen additional 8th graders were inducted into the Yorktown Middle School (YMS) Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society on November 17th. These outstanding school citizens demonstrate high levels of scholarship, leadership, service, and character. |
YHS Students + CNU Math Competition = SuccessPosted on: Friday, December 03, 2010Students in the IB Diploma Programme at York High School (YHS) took part in the Christopher Newport University (CNU) Regional Math Competition held November 20th at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. Seniors Corrigan Blanchfield and Brian Xu joined with sophomore Abigail Chen and freshman Correy Xu to take first place in the AA Division. Additionally, Abigail Chen won the Highest Scoring Sophomore Award. |
YHS Leadership Students Help Clean Up the ParkwayPosted on: Friday, December 03, 2010York High School (YHS) students in Amy Holtschneider's Leadership class picked up trash on the colonial parkway on November 23rd. Students in the class participate in monthly service projects of their choosing. They collected over seven bags of trash in just one hour! |
YHS Operation Smile Club Holds Beanie Baby DrivePosted on: Friday, December 03, 2010The Operation Smile Club at York High School (YHS) recently collected over 200 beanie baby toys to help bring a smile to the faces of children across the world. These toys will be sent overseas as part of "smile bags" given to children following surgery to correct cleft lips and/or cleft palates. |
YHS National Merit Commended StudentsPosted on: Friday, December 03, 2010Congratulations to York High School's (YHS) National Merit Commended Students for the 2010-11 National Merit Program: Evan Pulley, Jessica Lee, Apoorva Iyer, and Sang Bum Cho. |
School of the Arts Scotland TripPosted on: Friday, December 03, 2010In August, students from the York County School of the Arts traveled to London, England, where they did some sightseeing and participated in a workshop at the Globe Theatre. They then went on to Scotland, where they performed the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Cinderella at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh as part of the American High School Theatre Festival. |
One Act Encore for FirefightersPosted on: Friday, December 03, 2010Members of the Tabb High School (THS) One Act "War at Home" cast honored the York County firefighters of Station 2 with a special presentation of their show in the Tabb High Auditorium on November 23rd. The firefighters, students and faculty enjoyed the encore performance directed by drama student, Krista Meyers. |
YMS Students have "Out of this World" ExperiencePosted on: Friday, December 03, 2010Students from Yorktown Middle School's (YMS) Middle Years Programme (MYP) participated in the TEDxYouth@NASA event on November 20th at the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton, Va. Focused on the theme, "Be Astronomical!", students engaged in a diverse array of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) activities in a scientific and technologically-rich interactive environment. Additionally, students viewed presentations from a variety of speakers, ranging from a scientist to a poet, and viewed a number of exhibits, such as the newly released Eyes on the Solar System application. |
GMS Recognizes Outstanding StudentsPosted on: Friday, December 03, 2010The Student Recognition Program at Grafton Middle School (GMS) is designed to recognize students for their exemplary academic efforts, community service, citizenship and volunteer service. |
GMS Food DrivePosted on: Friday, December 03, 2010The Builder's Club at Grafton Middle School (GMS) has collected over 1,800 items for the York County Food Closet at St. Luke's United Methodist Church. Each day during the month of November, students brought in food items to their homeroom teacher. The Kiwanis Club of Grafton volunteers picked up the items and delivered the collected food to the York County Food Closet. |
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