Middle School - OCTOBER 19, 2023

Middle and Senior School Photo Day (Grades 6 - 11) - October 26

  • Students should wear one of the following uniform items: the long-sleeved or short sleeved blue polo shirt, the blue crewneck sweatshirt or the blue ¼ zip sweatshirt with the school grey bottoms.

Upcoming Lockdown Drill and Fire Drill - October 27 and 30

  • As part of the school’s safety plan, the students will be practicing a lockdown drill on Friday, October 27 at 1:40pm.

  • A practice fire drill will be on Monday, October 30 at 1:40pm.

  •  If your child might experience upset about these drills, please reach out to your child’s homeroom teacher for support.

Halloween Dress-up - October 31 

  • Students are welcome to come to school dressed up in silly and fun Halloween costumes

  • Given the climate in the Middle East, we are discouraging students to dress up in scary costumes that relate to death.

  • Door decorations and pumpkin carving contest will be focused on fun, silly, creative, and not the traditional scary

Student Sleep-in - November 1

  • Middle School Homeroom will start at 9:30am.

  •  Students are permitted into the building starting at 9:10am via the laneway or the front door of 1320 Yonge Street. 

  • Students should make their way into homeroom classes. Students who arrive early are permitted to read /work in the library commons.

Grade 8 Information Night Presentation regarding the Senior School

STUDENT LIFE & BELONGING

Assembly - Wednesday, October 25

Students and faculty can look forward to hearing about many exciting upcoming events in our community including the launch of the strategic plan, house standings update, a new spirit points system, Halloween activity options and much more! Students have recently been given opportunities to provide feedback on our community events and we look forward to incorporating their voice into our planning.

Questions? Please contact Erin Porter, Director of Student Life & Belonging at eporter@yorkschool.com.

Community Outreach Opportunities

Face Paint Fundraiser for Princess Margaret Cancer Research 

From October 23 - 31 between 8:20am - 8:55am and at lunch, student leader: Charlotte Y will be in the cafeteria running her third annual fundraiser. Cost is $2.5-$5 per student.

York Scares Hunger Continues - until October 31

Please remind your students to bring in non perishable food donations and place them in their house boxes outside the Student Life office and Middle School commons. As this is a spirit house and community service challenge to support the Daily Bread Food Bank, all contributions are appreciated.

If you would like to make a monetary donation to the Daily Bread Food Bank, please use our school’s donation page.

Questions? Contact Adina Fuss, Student Leadership Coordinator at afuss@yorkschool.com.

Halloweek Begins - October 23 - 31

York’s Middle and Senior school student leaders and teachers have been busy planning many festivities for our community this month! Please see below for key dates and information:

Middle & Senior School Ongoing House Challenges

  • Halloween Hunt - students and staff will find Halloween and Fall images scattered around the school. When they are found, they are to return them to their house box outside the Student Life & Belonging Office for points! The house that finds the most will win!

  • Halloween and Scary Movie Poster Competition - students guess the title of the movie posters outside the Student Life and Belonging office. Correct answers win, more house points!

Middle School Only Activities

  • Homeroom Door Decorating - October 23 -30

  • Halloween Carnival in the GLAD Centre at Lunch - October 27

  • Pumpkin Carving at lunch in room 428 - October 30 and 31

Middle & Senior School Halloween Assembly and Additional Programming - October 31

  • Halloween Costume Catwalk Assembly @ 9:05am - 9:50am

    • Students and Faculty are encouraged to dress up and compete at the assembly. Categories this year include: Most Creative Costume, Best DIY Costume, Funniest Costume and Best Team Costume

  • Additional Programming for students who are not attending the assembly will be provided in rooms 325 and 327

*Please ask your students to be especially mindful of their costumes for school this year. In the same way that we have educated our students about not misappropriating cultures in costumes, we would also request that costumes not have overly gory elements or violent imagery.

SAVE THE DATE: Middle School Movie Night

On Wednesday November 8, the Middle School will be having their annual movie night from 4:00pm - 6:00pm. 

More information to come with a parent/guardian permission form, please stay tuned!

Questions? Contact Diana Rowell, Student Leadership Coordinator at drowell@yorkschool.com.