Can you believe we are in 2025? Have you ordered your 2025 York Central School yearbook?
Here is a link to order yours right away!
https://tinyurl.com/3s9255vy
Reading with heart!
Second-grade students in Mrs. Leah Stamp's class practice their reading skills by learning how to run their eyes across a sentence looking for words they can read by heart or "heart words." This method encourages the students to read in longer phrases instead of one word at a time. They practiced with their reading partner - each student read aloud to their partner.
York High School and the Charles G. May Career & Technical Center are pleased to announce that Senior Liam Ezard is the December 2024 Student of the Month.
Liam is a student in the Building Trades program at the GV Boces May Center in Mount Morris.
Congratulations Liam!
Each month, students are nominated by their instructors for excellent performance in their Career & Technical classes.
It's Law Enforcement Appreciation Day!
York CSD appreciates our School Resource Deputy Rebecca Kane!
Thank you Deputy Kane for protecting our students and staff every day!
The community is invited to join us on Friday, January 10, 2025, for the York Central School Athletic Collegiate Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Read the full story on the inductees here: https://www.yorkcsd.org/article/1951724
The ceremony will occur before the Varsity Basketball game, at approximately 6:15 p.m.
A distinguished group of individuals will be inducted into our Collegiate Hall of Fame.
York Central School Alumni:
Troy Lubanski 2013
Kimberly Lubanski 2016
Danielle Perry 2016
Naomi Prentice Smith 2014
Jenny Mandarano 2019
Katie Mandarano 2017
Zach Englert 2017
Matt McFarland 2019
Kaileigh Carroll 2016
Today, Mrs. Pangrazio's sixth-grade science class learned about the geologic time scale .
In today's lesson, students analyzed fossils and rock strata. They used the evidence from the fossils and rock formations to understand the geologic time scale of Earth and major events in the Earth's history.
York Elementary School PTO meets tonight in the elementary school library at 6 p.m.
The meeting is open to anyone interested in supporting our students and the many activities that the York PTO sponsors throughout the school year.
Please join us - 6 p.m. in the elementary school library.
January is officially School Board Appreciation Month across the U.S. However, every day we thank the York Central School Board of Education for supporting our students and staff.
Thank you Laura Geary, Kara Kane, Christine Bianchi, Kirsty Northrop, Marilyn Moore, Daniel Ayers, and Matthew Miller for your volunteer service.
High School Algebra teacher Hannah Wood says teaching in the days just prior to winter break requires doing things a little differently - thinking outside the box!
Mrs. Wood engaged her students in practicing graphing linear equations using a rope and a giant coordinate grid on the floor. The lesson ramped up the usual paper and pencil graphs by getting the students out of their seats and interacting with each other.
York Elementary students are making kindness a habit!
Hats off to Theo, Sophia, Whitney, and Jankiel for extending kindness
to their classmates!
It's the Golden Knights' Way!
To highlight Computer Science Education Week in December, York High School STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) teachers hosted a lunch and learn opportunity for students interested in computer science.
Two presenters, Rajesh Nair and Christal Chen from Google, virtually visited the STEAM floor classroom and spoke with students and shared insights into the vast world of computer science studies and careers.
York HS offers the following STEAM courses:
STEAM explorations/Programming & Problem Solving, AP Computer Science Principles, Intro to Python/Physical Computing and/or Intro to Cybersecurity, AP Computer Science A and/or Web Design and/or Intro to Cybersecurity.
January's breakfast and lunch menus are posted to the website!
https://www.yorkcsd.org/o/ycsd/page/food
Welcome to 2025 Knights!
Senior English students in Mr. Ryan Conway’s class participated in a Criminal Justice book club, reading books with criminal justice themes.
Mr. Conway took the class on a deep exploration into the criminal justice system, which included a trip behind the doors of the Wende Maximum Correctional Facility, in Alden, NY.
Prior to the Seniors going to the Wende prison, they spent a couple of hours in the York High School Library with two former inmates, Thomas Gant and Jose DiLenola. Both men were incarcerated at Attica Prison for their crimes. Since their release, both are working in capacities to help other inmates transition back into society, gain employment, and build successful relationships.
Gant and DiLenola offered frank discussions with the students and answered all of their questions. Taking full responsibility for their decisions and crimes committed, the men engaged the students in conversations about how they could have made different decisions that would have changed the course of their lives. The men encouraged the Seniors to seek assistance if they are in a struggle, and assured them that help is nearby in school and in their community.
Thomas Gant is a Reentry Coordinator in the Rochester Education Justice Initiative program at the University of Rochester. He is an accomplished writer, speaker, and facilitator. He is a returning citizen after serving 25 years of incarceration.
Jose Di Lenola is the Clemency Campaign Director with RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison Program). He was incarcerated at the age of 16 and served 26 years.
Happy New Year from York Athletics! Follow your favorite Knight!
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2025
York/Pavilion Indoor Track & Field @ Rochester Institute of Technology, 1 p.m.
Pavilion/York Riflery @ Lancaster HS, 4 p.m.
York/Pavilion Swim/Dive @ Geneseo HS, 5 p.m.
York Boys Basketball (JV & Varsity) @ Geneseo HS, 5:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.
York Girls Basketball (Varsity only) @ Warsaw HS, 5:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2025
York Competitive Cheer @ Dansville HS, 9:30 a.m.
From all of us at York Central School - Happy New Year!
We look forward to welcoming our students and staff back on Monday, January 6, 2025.
Wishing our York students, families, and community a very happy and healthy New Year!
We can't wait to welcome back our students and staff on Monday, January 6, 2025!
December's character trait was awareness. Elementary School Principal Mrs. Kent and classroom teachers talked with the students about what it means to practice awareness, including self-awareness for others.
The Elementary School's Character Education program selects students each month who display the character trait. Congratulations to December's students who were recognized for displaying awareness.
The York CSD Music Department was brilliant in December!
Congratulations on three festive winter concerts!
Please enjoy the concert highlights in this photo gallery.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/dCcf3MUE8j3nEfMm7
Enjoy the winter recess - School Resumes Monday, January 6, 2025
Please note the District calendar is incorrect regarding the winter recess dates. (not Thursday, January 2, 2025)
Traditions run deep at York Central School and one of the relatively recent traditions that happens every December is called Project Elf.
Project Elf is a program that connects High School Seniors with a kindergarten student. It started in 2012, making this year’s Juniors, the first group of kindergarteners to have participated in Project Elf, said High School English teacher Ryan Conway, who heads the project each year for the Seniors.
“ Next year will be extra special as the project will have come full circle,” he commented.
Participation in Project Elf is voluntary for the Seniors, but each year nearly every Senior is excited to play Elf for their kindergarten student. Mr. Conway says there is no cost for the Seniors to play Elf due to generous donations from the York Elementary School PTO, and his own mother, Conni, who does a lot of the preparation work.
Over several weeks, the Seniors work to make a fleece blanket for their kindergarten match. They also choose a book to purchase and present to their kindergartener, along with their blanket. On the last day of school before winter recess, a really special meet-up takes place in the elementary school library. This is the day when each kindergarten student meets their Senior match and receives their blanket and book.
The matches are given time to get to know one another. The Seniors read the book they gave the kindergarteners as the young ones enjoy cozying up with their new blankets.
Later, the fun continues into the classrooms as the Seniors do holiday -themed activities with the kindergarteners.
Words cannot describe the joy that is evident in the smiles of both the Seniors and the young students.
Everyone involved in Project Elf is very proud of this tradition. YCS takes great pride in the connections they have with each other and the community. Just ask a Junior who was once that little kindergartener who received a blanket, a book, and a morning of connection with a Senior back in 2012.
