Yost Weekly Update: August 11, 2023
Yost Elementary: Home of the World's Greatest Kids and Staff
DSC K-4 Anonymous Safety Reporting Form
The link below will be used for any necessary safety reports for an elementary school in Duneland.
Yost PTO Corner
PTO Upcoming Dates
February
4- Read-A-Thon STARTS
11- FIT Club/PTO Meeting
25- LAST Day for Read-A-Thon
Get excited Yosties!!!! Read-A-Thon starts February 7th! Registration is as easy as looking up your reader by their teacher, their name and finishing up the simple registration! You can register by clicking the link https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/r/MmxRuV/1 or scanning the QR code!
questions can be directed to yostpto@gmail.com
Traffic Patterns
Please refer to the video for updated traffic patterns.
Upcoming Events
1/27 Teacher Professional Development Day (no school)
2/14-2/17 Winter Break (no school)
3/3 IREAD Testing Window Begins (Grades 2 & 3)
3/14 End of Quarter 3
3/21 Quarter 3 Grades Available
3/24-3/28 Spring Break (no school)
4/8 Yost PTO Meeting
4/14 ILEARN Testing Window Begins (Grades 3 & 4)
4/17 Yost Science Fair
4/28 Yost Author Visit
5/6 eLearning Day
5/8 Yost Blood Drive
5/13 Yost PTO Meeting
5/17 DSC Color Run
5/29 Last Day of School!
8/13 First Day of School 2025-2026!
Attendance Facts
- Absenteeism in the first month of school can predict poor attendance throughout the school year. Half the students who miss 2-4 days in September go on to miss nearly a month of school.
- Chronic absence appears to have doubled by the end of the 2021-22 school year. We estimate that it now affects nearly one out of three students (or 16 million vs. 8 million students in the 2018-19 school year).
- Poor attendance can influence whether children read proficiently by the end of third grade or be held back.
- By 6th grade, chronic absence becomes a leading indicator that a student will drop out of high school.
- Research shows that missing 10 percent of the school, or about 18 days in most school districts, negatively affects a student’s academic performance. Chronic absence is considered two days a month.
- When students improve their attendance rates, they improve their academic prospects and chances of graduating.
- The most important thing to track is not just how many are missing school without an excuse but how many are missing so many days in excused and unexcused absences that academics are off track.
- Missing one (1) day of school every two (2) weeks, adds up to almost a year and half of school from kindergarten to senior in high school.
DSC Transportation Information
Information regarding student bus transportation for the 2024-2025 school year is available on DSC website under the Transportation Department.
TRACK STUDENT'S BUS WITH MYSTOP APP- The Duneland School Corporation Department of Transportation has now made My Stop available to our families.
My Stop is a web-based application which will allow parents to access live bus GPS information using a smartphone, tablet, or computer and securely view the current location of your child’s bus on routes. The system also provides the bus’s estimated time of arrival at your child’s bus stop.
Please read the attached letter to parents for more information on how to use My Stop to track your child's bus.
Nutrislice
The DSC Child Nutrition Department utilizes NutriSlice as its menus program. This app is available for iPhone and Android through your mobile app store. Parents can also access the full website for Duneland Schools on a computer via this NutriSlice link.
This app will allow parents and students to view the menus as well as the nutritional info for each menu item at any of the Duneland Schools. This program will be developed further incorporating images of the actual food items being served at each of the Duneland schools.
Newton Yost Elementary School
Email: jhuwig@duneland.k12.in.us
Website: https://www.duneland.k12.in.us/Domain/12
Location: 100 West Beam Street, Porter, IN, USA
Phone: 219.983.3640