Northern News

March 21, 2023 - School Board Committee Meeting - Administration Building, 6:30 PM

March 28, 2023 - School Board Meeting - Wellsville Elementary School, 6:30 PM

March 29, 2023 - School Board Budget Committee Meeting - Administration Building, 6:30 PM

On February 24th-25th Northern High School Four Diamonds Club held our annual Mini-THON. This student run club works hard all year to raise money to help fight childhood cancer. This year our Mini-THON total was our highest yet! $46,078.56!

Our Leadership Team would like to give a HUGE “Thank You!” to everyone who helped to make this possible.

Two Northern High School students qualified for the PMEA Region V Choral Festival which was held at the Cumberland Valley School District February 24-25, 2023. Congratulations to Adeline Lusk, Tenor 1 and Nicholas Keilholtz, Tenor 2 for their outstanding accomplishments! The 200-voice choir was under the direction of guest conductor, Dr. Kyle Zeuch, director of choral activities at Lebanon Valley College. After a day and a half of rehearsals, they presented a concert on Saturday, February 25th for family and friends. The concert repertoire consisted of music by Johannes Brahms, William Byrd, Elaine Hagenburg, Jake Runestad, Jeffery L. Ames, Ola Gjeilo, and more. Region V of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) is comprised of both District 7 (Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, and York counties) and District 10 (Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton, Pike, and Schuylkill Counties), according to NHS Choral director, Laura Bissell.

Pictured below: Adeline Lusk & Nicholas Keilholtz

On March 6, we launched One District, One Book! One District, One Book is a national program where schools read a common text together as a community. This year, all four NYCSD elementary schools are reading The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary. Every family, teacher, and staff member received a copy of the text.

Congratulations to Northern sophomore Morgan Keefer for earning a 6th Place medal with a time of 1:06.65 in the Girls AAA 100 Breaststroke at the 2023 District 3 Swimming Championships! You make us Northern proud!!

Congratulations to Cole Bartram for capturing 2nd place in the 189lb. weight class at the PIAA State Championships! We are Polar Bear proud!

We have officially concluded the American Heart Association Kids Heart Challenge Fundraiser.

Our students have once again raised record breaking funds for the American Heart Association, supporting kids with severe heart conditions. Our final total for this event is $20,170.83.

We are currently the TOP fundraising school for York, Adams, Perry, Cumberland and Northumberland counties - These are the counties overseen by our AHA representative, Theresa McBride. Way to go Polar Bears!! We will celebrate the success of this event by bringing the Slime a Teacher event back on field day!

The top fundraisers photographed below from left to right in no specific order of funds raised are:

Miss Carlson, Catalina Pena, Leilani Noel, Kehanna Stump, Rylee Smith, Blake Smith, Ryan Sites, Tyler Stump,Brody Waggoner, Jakob May, Avery Bentzel (Absent: Aurore Lape)

First grade at Northern Elementary conducted text feature surgery! Students read the patient's symptoms and decided as a team what text feature they need to feel better. They used paper RAZ text to cut and paste into the patient file.

School Board President Ken Sechrist visited all four of our elementary schools to read to students as part of Agriculture Literacy Week.

Pictured below: Ken reads to second grade class at NES

Each year The GIANT Company partners with school districts to combat childhood hunger. They are committed to connecting families to a better future through the 2023 Feeding School Kids initiative.

We are excited to announce that NYCSD is a recipient of @ GIANT’s Feeding School Kids Round Up program! This year, Feeding School Kids raised more than $1.35 million to expand public school feeding programs. Thanks to GIANT’s support, we are receiving $7,075.80 to support food security and food assistance initiatives within our schools. The funds received last year were used to help ease the burden of Northern Nation families with outstanding food service balances and we anticipate making this relief available once again.

Thanks to all the Northern supporting customers who rounded up at the register! Together, we are ensuring students have access to the nutrition they need to grow and fuel their education. We are thankful for the continued partnership with The GIANT Company to combat childhood hunger.

Pictured below: A representative from the GIANT Company presents the check to Jason Young and Scott Shedlock.

Congratulations to the winners of the Dillsburg American Legion Post 26 Auxiliary Americanism Essay Contest. From Mr. Andreoli's AP Literature & Composition class, Aiden Maddox was the classroom winner and will receive a $75 cash award! In addition, the whole class participated and will receive an ice cream party at Mr. Andreoli's convenience. In 8th grade, Keira Bakis came out on top as the winner! Sponsored by Ms. Albert, her essay earned her a $50 cash award. These two essays were sent on to Council level for judging. Good luck to them!!

On March 1st, 2023, four students from Northern Middle School participated in a Focus Group at the Byrnes Health Center. These students, identified by their school team as candidates to attend the focus group, traveled to southern York County to see the newly renovated Byrnes Health Education campus and to provide feedback on their new teaching theaters which were recently "gutted and retooled" in a $4-million renovation. Together with students from other surrounding York County schools, our students were shown the new teaching tools that are now available and provided feedback on how those tools could be used most effectively. Students spent about 15 minutes in each of the new spaces which included: Nutrition and Fitness, Substance Abuse Prevention, General Health, Human Development, Body Shop for Early Learners, Social and Emotional Health, and STEM Lab. Students were also treated to snacks and gift cards for Chick-Fil-A!!! School staff were also given the opportunity to see the new theaters and engaged in discussion with Byrnes Health Education staff. The district should be proud of these model students who were wonderful ambassadors and representatives of the Northern York County School District!

Pictured below: Abigail Kim (8th), Isabella Petroff (7th), Kyle Roman (8th), Avery Lusk (7th)

On Thursday February 16th, several of the NHS FFA members went to New Oxford to participate in the Winter Ag Skills Day competition. Six members competed in the Floriculture CDE against a total of 42 people in the area. Barry Sealover received 1st place; Theresa Feese was awarded 2nd place. FFA member, Paige Sullivan, participated in the Employment Skills category, placing 2nd in York County. A total of 6 people from the NHS FFA chapter participated in Milk Quality against a total of 46 people. Seniors, Kiera Mull placed 3rd, Quinn Fenicle placed 4th, and Raven Eisenhour placed 6th. Congratulations to all!

Website for buying tickets or sponsorships is Polar Bear Foundation - 2023 PBF Wonderland Gala (bidpal.net) or https://one.bidpal.net/pbfgala2023/welcome

The Polar Cares Closet collects gently used clothing and new cleaning supplies which are shared with students and families in need. The greatest needs are: underwear, socks, girls leggings, boys athletic pants, and detergent. Also needed are Giant or Weis brown paper bags. All donations can be dropped off in any of the Polar Cares bins located in the lobby of each school building.

Thank you, as always, for your support of our NYCSD families!

Northern has a discount program for Dell computers and accessories to all district staff, students and families.

Link to website for discount pricing: http://www.dell.com/epp/NorthernYork

PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

For more information and to apply:

3rd Grade Teacher: Apply Online

LTS: Apply Online

For more information and to apply:

7th Grade Boys Basketball Coach: Apply Online

7th Grade Girls Basketball Coach:Apply Online

8th Grade Girls Basketball Coach: Apply Online

Northern York County School District is currently in need of substitute nurses. Must hold an R.N. Rate of pay: $30/hour. Please contact Suzanne Sentman at ssentman@northernyork.org to apply.

Apply online: https://jobs.willsubplus.com/jobs?districtIds=623

HS ESS 1:1 - 7:15-2:45 / $105/day

HS ESS Intensive Learning Support Aide 7:15-2:45 / $90/day

HS ESS Learning Support Aide 7:15-2:45 / $90/day

HS ESS LS Paraprofessional 7:15-2:45 / $90/day

HS ESS Job Coordinator 7:15-2:45 / $105/day

MS ESS Building Aide 7:15-2:45 / $90/day

MS ESS Emotional Support Paraprofessional 7:15-2:45 / $105/day

MS ESS PACE Room / Life Skills Support Paraprofessional 7:15-2:45 / $90/day

MS ESS Intensive Learning Support Aide 7:15-2:45 / $105/day

MS ESS Learning Support Aide 7:15-2:45 / $90/day

DE/NE ESS Library Aide 8:30-4:00 / $90/day

Refer a friend and make $100!! See attached and below for details. #BecomeBelongBeNorthern

Apply online: https://www.northernpolarbears.com/Page/36

MS Emotional Support Aide 8:30- 2:45 / $13.50/hour

MS Autism Support Aide 7:15-1:30 / $13.50/hour

MS Autism Support Aide 8:45- 2:45 / $13.50/hour

MS Learning Support Aide 8:45- 2:30 / $13.50/hour

NE Building Aide 9:15-2:30 / $13.50/hour

SM Learning Support Aide 9:00-3:00 / $13.50/hour

All community flyers are posted online. Please visit the following link to view all flyers: https://www.northernpolarbears.com/domain/11

#BecomeBelongBeNorthern

Get all the latest Northern York County School District school news at the following Twitter handles:

https://twitter.com/DearOldNorthern (Northern High School)

https://twitter.com/NMS_PolarBears (Northern Middle School)

https://twitter.com/DESPolarBears (Dillsburg Elementary)

https://twitter.com/NESPolarBears (Northern Elementary)

https://twitter.com/SMEPolarBears (South Mountain Elementary)

https://twitter.com/WESpolarbears (Wellsville Elementary)

Email: ssentman@northernyork.org
Website: www.northernpolarbears.com
Location: 650 South Baltimore Street, Dillsburg, PA, United States
Phone: 717-432-8691