Some Monday motivation to get your week started, Wildcats 🐾
Students in Señora Caraballo's Spanish Class got to celebrate with a fiesta after winning a vocabulary and speaking game. Muy bien, Wildcats 🐾
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Art I Honors students in Ms. Sunderland's class installed their prehistoric art today. It was a great representation of life with no WiFi. I love this creativity 🐾
Students in Mr. Wyatt's Computer Science class handled being "unplugged" this week! They were still able to complete activities related to networking, variable simulation with Blank Space stories, data discoveries, and iteration/algorithm development with strategy games (AKA "old school coding"). Love that this type of learning occurred in a COMPUTER SCIENCE class without the Internet 🐾
Frau Kyer's German 4 class is reading a biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger for their unit on personal and public identity. Yesterday they engaged in some "reader's theater" by turning the chapter into a dramatic reading-- students took the role of Arnold, his brother, and his parents (plus a narrator) and read the chapter aloud-- no screens or Internet needed! Love that this type of learning continued to happen despite the WiFi snafu 🐾
This week's Wildcat Wednesday features our new Educational Technician, Shawn Cola. Ms. Cola graduated from York High School back in 2005 and studied music performance at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA. She started working with York Adult Education as an English language instructor back in January of 2018 and became the student services coordinator in 2020. She has loved that experience. This past year she started as the district library floater, which gave her the chance to get involved with Extended School Year this summer, and the rest is history. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, reading, gardening, and performing in choirs or at special events. We are so excited to have her joining us here at YHS 🐾
Another chance for a different class to hike through coniferous and deciduous forests while also exploring a pond and a bog. These students had a fun-filled day and got to use what they learned in the classroom to expand their understanding of the coursework. Thank you, Ms. Graham, for planning such a great trip for our students 🐾
A fun-filled (but tiring) opportunity for our AP Environmental Science students. They got to hike through coniferous and deciduous forests while also exploring a pond and a bog. What a way to use what they have learned in the classroom to expand their understanding of the coursework. Thank you, Ms. Graham, for planning such a great trip for our students 🐾
Happy Monday, Wildcats 🐾
This week's Wildcat Wednesday features our Physical Education Longterm Substitute Teacher, Chris La Croix. This is Mr. La Croix's first teaching position with the York School Department and he couldn't be more excited. After graduating with a B.S. in exercise science, Chris has spent the past 10 years in the fitness industry training everyone from the high school athlete to the 80-year-old pickleball player. He is an avid runner who also coaches other runners through his coaching business, All Seasons Endurance Training. He and his wife, Sarah, live in South Berwick with their 15-month-old Miles where they enjoy spending time out in nature, hanging out with family, and being involved with their church youth group. Please join me in welcoming Mr. La Croix to our Wildcat family 🐾
Happy Spirit Week, Wildcats!
It's Monday again, Wildcats 🐾 Let's do this Spirit Week 💪
Farm fresh... kale pesto and local veggies being served to YHS students!
Open House -- TOMORROW! We look forward to seeing you from 6:00-7:30 at YHS.
This week’s Wildcat Wednesday features Jill Darin, our new Educational Technician. Ms. Darin is entering her 5th year with the York School Department and is excited to be on board full-time in her Ed Tech position. She is grateful for her studies in adolescent development at SNHU and looks forward to working among the great colleagues at YHS. She is immensely happy to work with students she met over 4 years ago! It’s the students that truly keep her coming back into the school halls. Ms. Darin enjoys living in beautiful Cape Neddick and spends time watching anything and everything humorous, loves her time in the kitchen, but mostly loves spending time with her 2 beautiful daughters Abby and Maggie, and, her precious kitty Prudence. Please join me in welcoming Ms. Darin to YHS 🐾
Congratulations, Aubrey Marcotte ('25), for being selected for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence. She earned this award for outstanding academic achievement, leadership potential, and determination to serve humanity in the field of medicine. We are so proud of you, Aubrey 🐾
Odyssey of the Mind Information Night
TONIGHT! Monday, Sept 11, from 6 to 7 p.m.
Coastal Ridge Elementary School Cafeteria
Parents and students from grades K-12 are welcome!
Happy Monday, Wildcats 🐾
This week's Wildcat Wednesday highlights our new Library Educational Technician, Sharon Trafton. Ms. Trafton has been with YSD for the past 7 years and enjoyed working in the CRES library for the past 4 years and prior to that with Special Ed at CRES and VES. Ms. Trafton got her degree from the University Of New Hampshire in Outdoor Education/Wildlife Biology. Some of her previous experiences include creating and managing programs for all ages for the Boy Scouts of America, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Seacoast Mental Health Center. Her specialty is creating innovative programs for all ages. She is excited to join the YHS library team. She lives in York with her husband and 3 kids, 2 in College and 1 at YHS. In her free time, she loves traveling, hiking, gardening, and spending time outdoors, especially at the lake. Welcome, Ms. Trafton 🐾
