Middle School - November 28, 2024
upcoming events
CanGrad - Individual Student Photos
Today students received their CanGrad individual photos to take home.
If you have any questions about your students' photos please reach out to CanGrad Studios.
Students who missed photo day in October will have a chance to have their individual photos taken on January 9th. Parents and students will be notified by email if this applies to them.
Student I.D. Cards (proof of age cards) will be distributed before the December Break.
Class photos will go home at the end of February.
Halloween Festivities - Prize Winners
The prize winners for the door decorations and pumpkin carving are as follows:
Thursday, December 5 - 6B & 7A Lunch Out.
Friday, December 6 - 6C Cookie Decorating.
November 28 - 30, 2024 - Middle and Senior School Play, Cinderella
November 28 & 29 at 7:00pm and November 30 at 2:00pm.
The online box office is now open for you to purchase tickets.
Friday, November 29, 6:45am - Thrive Student Leaders Event, Ridley College
Tuesday, December 3, 10:15am - Grade 6 Trip to the Holocaust Museum
December 3 - 16, 2024 - Lost and Found
The lost and found items will be on display in the Athletic Centre for students to peruse.
Students are encouraged to take time to claim lost items.
Unclaimed items will be donated.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - Students Sleep-In
Middle School Homeroom will start at 9:30am.
Students are permitted into the building starting at 9:15am via the laneway or the front door of 1320 Yonge Street.
Students who arrive early are permitted to read /work in the library.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - TPH Vaccination Clinic
Toronto Public Health (TPH) will be hosting a School Immunization Program clinic at The York School on Wednesday, December 4th. The clinic will offer hepatitis b, human papillomavirus (HPV), and meningococcal vaccines to grade 7 & 8 students.
Parents have to complete the consent form for their child to participate.
If you wish to have your child vaccinated outside of school, TPH holds routine vaccination clinics around the city. For more information please visit this site.
Students who are participating in the vaccination clinic should wear short sleeves.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - The York Debate Cup
We are excited to announce the launch of the first annual York Debate Cup on December 4 from 3:45pm to 6:15pm.
This event will be a mini-tournament involving two rounds of debate. It will allow our Middle School debaters to flex their skills in a more formal debate and celebrate all they have learned so far this year.
An RSVP has been emailed out to parents and members of the Middle School Debate Club.
December - Upcoming Optional Lunch Outs
6B & 7A Lunch Out (Halloween Prize) - Thursday, December 5.
Grade 7’s have a Lunch out on Thursday, December 12.
Homeroom teachers will review the boundaries and rules with students.
Grade 8 Students will continue to have an optional lunch out on Fridays.
Monday, December 9, 8:30am - The 14th Annual Pinewood Derby Race
Tuesday, December 17, 2:30pm - Grade 6 Geometric Art Exhibition
The grade 6s will be inviting their parents to view their geometric art exhibit in which they will explore angles, triangles, and transversals.
They will explore the global context of personal and cultural expression and use mathematics to analyze and create artistic forms of expression. You are invited to question whether art is more inspiration or calculation.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 - Ability in Action, Grade 8 Trip to Variety Village
Thursday, December 19, 2024, 1:20pm - Middle School Winter Wonders Challenge
December 20, 2024 - January 5, 2025 - Winter Break (No Classes)
Classes resume on Monday, January 6, 2025.
2024-25 Forest of Reading program
This week, we are excited to introduce the 2024-25 Forest of Reading program to our middle school students. The Forest of Reading is a Canada-wide program designed to inspire a love of reading and promote books by Canadian authors. The "forest" is made up of several different "trees" (book lists), with each tree featuring 10 books nominated as "the best" of Canadian literature. The trees for our middle school students are Red Maple (fiction) and Yellow Cedar (nonfiction).
Students will be invited to choose which books they’d like to read from the Red Maple or Yellow Cedar nominated booklists. If they read at least 5 of the books, they’ll be eligible to vote for their favourite at our school Voting Day April (TBD) and attend a field trip to Harbourfront Centre in May (TBD).
Please help to promote student participation in this program by doing the following:
1. Share this slidedeck with your students in homeroom this week.
2. If students have questions, direct them to visit our library Forest of Reading page for more details about the program, including book talks from our Forest of Reading teacher ambassadors.
3. Share this signup form with students: Forest of Reading signup form.
Questions? Contact Mr. Regner, Mr. Grosman, Ms. Wolfe and Ms. Walker. Thanks for your support!
STUDENT LIFE AND BELONGING
WELLBEING WEDNESDAYS
Next Wednesday students have a sleep-in morning as well as a York Spirit or Athletic Casual Dress day!
Middle School Homeroom classes will begin at 9:30am and Senior School will go directly to Period 1 at 9:55am.
Questions? Please contact Erin Porter, Director, Student Life & Belonging at eporter@yorkschool.com.
YORK SPIRIT Events in November
Next Wednesday is York’s first home game of the season! SAC will face off against our Varsity Basketball team at 2:45pm.
Students are encouraged to wear their York Athletic or Spirit Wear and come out to support our team. Our spirit council is planning a series of activities at lunch and 3:20 pm to get everyone excited about the game.
Questions? Please contact Erin Porter, Director, Student Life & Belonging at eporter@yorkschool.com.