Columbus Day - October 14, 2024
School is closed today in observance of this Federal holiday
October is Fire Prevention education month. YCS is very fortunate to have our local volunteer fire departments dedicated to sharing fire safety education with our students.
Today, volunteer firefighters from York, Leicester, and Cuylerville Fire Departments visited our school. They presented fire safety tips to our students, familiarized them with how a firefighter may look if they showed up at their home in an emergency, and explained the different types of firefighting equipment.
Thank you to the firefighters who came to York Elementary School today and all the local firefighters who protect our homes and families. See all the photos on our Facepage page @yorkgoldenknights
Fall is a fun time at local farms.
Our first grade classes had a wonderful day at Duvall Farms in Bloomfield. Special thanks to Kim Duvall and her staff for hosting all our first graders!
Everyone enjoyed the Pumpkin Palace and all the activities. Students went on a hayride, picked sunflowers and pumpkins, navigated the corn maze, enjoyed a pony ride, and petted all the animals!
They also enjoyed the bounce house and exploring all the different picture locations. It was beautiful weather for our picnic lunch. Afterward, we stopped at Sharks for ice cream.
Fall is a fantastic time of year!
The September - October 2024 Knightly News digital newsletter is here!
It is packed with stories and photos - plus details on Spirit Week, October 15-19, 2024.
Click here to read the Knightly News! https://secure.smore.com/n/6ex7t
The Lady Golden Knights Varsity Soccer team celebrated Senior Night on Tuesday, October 8 at their home game against Canisteo-Greenwood.
The team, families, and spectators celebrated the soccer careers of six Seniors: Ella Conway, Kylie Conway, Lilyana Beardsley, Ella Tillotson, Lia Lombardo, and Isabel Laney.
Congratulations to all and thanks for the memories.
Evie Smith, a 2024 YCS graduate and communications major at SUNY Brockport, returned to the Knights' field to capture Senior night in photographs. Thank you, Evie!
Students in Ms. Miller's Studio in Art class created posters featuring inspiring quotes.
The students used a variety of lettering techniques to bring focus to the words in their posters.
Ms. Miller displayed the students' finished paintings in the hall and the foyer to the bus loop.
York Football Alumni Association proudly welcomed the newest members of the York Football Hall of Fame at the October 4, 2024, home game vs. Canisteo-Greenwood.
Congratulations to inductees John Joslyn, Rocco Dragani, Dr. Joe Scanlon, and the 2002 York Golden Knights Football team.
Rep Your Golden Knights!
Knights apparel makes the perfect gift!
Order online (local vendor) and a part of the purchase price will benefit the York All Sports Booster Club, which support York athletes.
Thank you! Go Knights! Order at this link:
https://www.yorkcsd.org/article/1785365
Where did the Earth come from? Where in the cosmic universe does the human race fit in?
Mr. Earsing's Earth Science students are exploring the universe and the theories of how it all came to be.
After conducting research, each student presented their findings to the class.
Join us tomorrow, Saturday, October 4, 2024, for the York All Sports Boosters' craft and vendor show at York HS auxiliary gym from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Browse and shop a variety of crafters and vendors - all proceeds will benefit the York All Sports Boosters Club.
Today, Mrs. Ivers accompanied a group of high school students to Nazareth University in Rochester. Mrs. Hussar took another group of students to tour Alfred State College.
The students toured the campuses and learned about the universities' programs and majors.
Join us in celebrating these elementary school students who were recognized at the September character assembly for demonstrating responsibility.
The elementary school focuses on a character trait each month. Students who demonstrate that trait are recognized at the end of the month character assembly.
Congratulations Golden Knights!
#Responsibility
Join us in celebrating these elementary school students who were recognized for exhibiting responsibility throughout September.
Each month the elementary school focuses on a character trait. Students who have exhibited that trait throughout the month are recognized at the character assembly.
Way to go Golden Knights!
#Responsibility
Nominate a Golden Knight!
What a fantastic first month of the 2024-2025 school year!
Here's your opportunity to recognize our outstanding staff members with the monthly Knights Recognition award.
Please nominate by the end of the day Friday, October 4, 2024.
Each month the district will recognize an Elementary, MHS and, a District wide staff member who has demonstrated one of the three YCS Vision qualities:
Preparing, Challenging, or Inspiring.
Your nomination may be a teacher, a food service worker, a bus driver, a classroom aide, custodian, art teacher, ANYONE in the Golden Knights family!
Feel free to nominate one staff member per submission using this Google form.
https://forms.gle/LTkNUvtp9FeiwHgy7
Please complete your nomination by 3 p.m. on Friday, October 4.
York High School Student Body met today to plan Homecoming 2024.
Representatives from each grade met after school to map out daily themes and Friday's pep assembly games.
Homecoming is October 15 - 19 with a Homecoming Dance on Saturday evening.
More details will be coming soon!
Go West, young man! A famous quote from the mid-1800s when Americans were encouraged to move westward in search of opportunity - and gold, which became knows as the California Gold Rush.
Mr. Chatley's eighth grade Social Studies students are learning about this time period in American history.
As a class activity, the students made paper gold nuggets. The instructions were to hide their name within the drawing. Mr. Chatley grouped the gold nuggets together and the students had to locate their own, simulating the search for gold.
The students participated in activities related to homesteading and the transcontinental railroad as part of the unit on westward expansion.
Dear York CSD community - You are invited to join us this Friday night, October 4, 2024, for the York Football Alumni Association Hall of Fame Induction. The induction will take place during halftime of the Varsity York/Pavilion football game vs. Canisteo-Greenwood. Kick-off 7 p.m.
The 2024 inductees are: Rocco Dragani (1991), John Joslyn (1983), Dr. Joe Scanlon (Retired YCS Principal), and the YCS 2002 football team (team members are asked to email djcaraher@yahoo.com.)
Please join us Friday night for the 2024 York Football Alumni Association Football Hall of Fame Induction.
DNA is widely used in law enforcement investigations , medical diagnostics, agriculture, and many other areas.
Mrs. Brubaker's Living Environment students participated in a lab, creating simple DNA models using Twizzlers, marshmallows, and toothpicks to represent the components of DNA.
Twizzlers act as the sugar-phosphate backbone, while marshmallows represent the four nucleotide bases, and toothpicks simulate the bonds between them.
The activity provides a hands-on way to understand the structure of DNA and how it forms a double helix, ending with the fun reward of eating the model.
This Thursday, October 3 - Big night for our Lady Knights Volleyball team.
Come out to the York HS gym and help the Lady Knights block out breast cancer!
JV game is at 4:30 p.m./Varsity at 6 p.m.
Bring some cash - we will have many basket giveaways, remembrance ribbons, food and more!
October is National School Principal's Month!
Thank you, Mrs. Kent and Mrs. Peet for all that you do for students and staff every day, every week, and every month of the school year!
