YMS NEWS

Greetings YMS Parent(s):

Thank you to all parents who were able to attend parent-teacher conferences on February 5-7. Your attendance proves that you are making your child’s education a priority. If you were unable to attend for any reason and would like to speak with your child’s teacher you can call the school at 402-362-6655 option 1 or you can find the teacher’s e-mail by searching www.yorkpublic.org

In my office, I often get student issues with social media. Parents here are some tips on how you can keep your child safe and a responsible social media user from the National Crime Prevention Council and Parents.com

Keep your home computer in a busy area of your house.
Set up email and chat accounts with your children. Make sure that you know their screen names and passwords and that they don't include any personal information in their online profiles.
Tell your children not to respond to cyberbullying threats or comments online. However, do not delete any messages. Instead, print out all the messages, including the cyberbully's e-mail addresses or online screen names.
Regularly go over their instant messenger "buddy list" with them. Ask who each person is and how your children know him or her.
Talk regularly and specifically with your children about online issues. Let them know they can come to you for help if anything is inappropriate, upsetting, or dangerous.
Build trust with your children. Set time limits, explain your reasons for them, and discuss rules for online safety and Internet use. Ask your children to contribute to establishing the rules; then they'll be more inclined to follow them.
If there are threats of physical violence or the bullying continues to escalate, get law enforcement involved.
Tell your children that you won't blame them if they are cyberbullied. Emphasize that you won't take away their computer privileges - this is the main reason kids don't tell adults when they are cyberbullied.

With these few simple tips, you can help your child be a safe and responsible user of social media. If you have any concerns please don’t hesitate to contact Mrs. Badura or me.

Mr. Loosvelt

School Closing Procedures

In case of a weather emergency, we will follow the same procedure that has been in practice in the past years.

That procedure is as follows:

1. Radio Station KOOL (103.5 FM 1370 AM), and KTMX-FM (104.9) will again serve as our primary source for dispensing “school closing information.” They are 24 hour stations.

2. If severe weather necessitates an early dismissal, a school cancellation, or information concerning school buses, it will be broadcast on KOOL and KTMX.

3. Bus drivers are instructed to use good judgment in determining whether a road is passable. The

Transportation Department will notify parents where children can be loaded if a specific road cannot be traveled. Buses will travel the regular routes and maintain a time schedule consistent with the conditions of the roads.

4. “Emergency Messages” will be sent to our student’s parents and guardians who have an email or cell phone number listed in Infinite Campus, and the YPS Staff. Information will be posted on our website at www.yorkpublic.org, on our Facebook page at York Public Schools and on Twitter at

@MitchBartYPS (#yorkdukes). Parents and Guardians – please be sure to provide the school

secretaries with your current email address and cell phone number in order to be notified!!

FILE: EBBDA POLICY ON SCHOOL DISMISSAL FOR INCLEMENT WEATHER

The York Public Schools will be closed, when in the determination of the Superintendent of Schools or his/her designee, the weather conditions constitute a hazard for students going to or from school.

When regular morning school bus routes cannot be run due to road conditions, yet travel in town is not seriously hampered, school may remain open. When possible a "limited service" bus route shall be run anytime school remains open and it is not possible to run regular routes. The starting time of the morning session may be delayed when necessary.

When, during the school day and while school is in session, it is necessary to send bus pupils home

early, school may be dismissed for all students.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ON SCHOOL DISMISSAL FOR INCLEMENT WEATHER

When school is not held or is dismissed early due to poor weather conditions, notification will be placed on the York radio station and any other such means as the superintendent may deem necessary and feasible.

When it is necessary to dismiss school due to inclement weather after the school day has started, all students should be accounted for in their homeroom by their homeroom teachers. Bus students should be dismissed first. Teachers shall be responsible for their assigned students. Before dismissing elementary town students, the teachers shall not let any student who has been transported to school go home without contacting their parents, unless they are sure other arrangements have been made. Students who have walked to school may be allowed to walk home if the teacher feels the weather does not present a hazard. Teachers will be dismissed when all of their students have been accounted for.

This year we have switched to semester grades at YMS, unless you are a 6th/7th grader that has Shop, FCS, Computers or Art. These classes will continue to change every quarter. This change means we will no longer hand out quarterly honor roll certificates. Students will continue to be recognized for 1st and 2nd semesters in York News Times. You can access grades on the parent portal on Infinite Campus. Please direct any specific grading questions to the classroom teacher. We will only mail report cards home, at the end of the year, in May. You can access the Infinite Campus parent portal using the directions below:

Visit https://necloud1.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/york.jsp
Log in with the proper username/password (contact YMS to reset password if needed)
You may be asked to verify your device as trustworthy for security purposes.
Select your student.
Click the three horizontal lines on the upper left hand corner. You will be able to access Grades, Schedules, Attendance Records, Fees, and Documents.

IMPORTANT DATES 📆

8th Grade President's Fair- March 9 @ 6:15PM

NO SCHOOL/SPRING BREAK -- March 12-March 17

YMS Musical @ York High School Theatre - March 20-21 @ 7:00PM

YMS Honor Band @ York High School Theatre- March 28 @ 9:00AM

LUNCH MENU

🎺Band

The annual York Middle School Honor Band will be held on Saturday, March 28th at YHS. Middle school band students from around the area are selected and participate in this honor band. Several students were selected from York Middle School. The final concert will be held in the YHS Theater at 6:30 PM. Tickets are $3 for adults and children are free. Congratulations to these musicians on representing York Middle School!

Congratulations to these YMS band students

8th Grade Band: Maddy Hindal, Cody Orman, Kiley Shufeldt, Jace Lingo, William Stayer, and Quinlyn Bryner

7th Grade Band: Samantha Hefner, Klaire Heberlee, Emaline Dinges, Caleb Lehman, Antonio Luebcke, Cora Turner, Parker Niemann, and Carson Schwab.

🎼Choir

Come see the York Middle School production of Seussical Jr. on March 20th and 21st at 7:00pm in the YHS theater! Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for students. We hope to see you there!

Attendance

When your child is ill and unable to attend school we want to hear from you. Give us a call at 402-362-6655, option 1, between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Please let the office know in advance when your child is going to be absent for an appointment or will be going out of town.

For the safety of your child, we make sure all absent children are accounted for!