2023-2024 Student Transportation Plan Survey
August 1, 2023
We hope you are enjoying your summer break. Our staff is working hard behind the scenes to prepare for the start of the school year. One of the areas we need your help is by getting the necessary information to determine bus transportation routes. In order to set these routes, please complete this brief survey: https://bit.ly/3OF4fQZ. Ledgemere needs your input no later than this Sunday, August 6th.
We are asking for this information for EACH student who rides the bus. That could mean that whether your child rides every day, only in the mornings or afternoons, or only between sports seasons, we'd still like you to complete a survey for them.
Your information will help establish the need for busing to and from the York School Department schools and help improve your child’s safety, comfort, and overall experience.
Transportation resources can be found on the York Schools website at https://www.yorkschools.org/page/transportation.
Enjoy the last few weeks of the summer break. We look forward to a strong start to the school year.
Thank you!
York School Department/Ledgemere Transportation
Please Join Us as we bid farewell to CRES Principal Sean Murphy and welcome our new Superintendent and Business Administrator.
York School Committee Meeting
At the York Public Library, July 19, at 7 p.m.
York Public Library, 15 Long Sands Road, York
WARM WELCOMES: This is the first York School Committee Meeting for Superintendent Tim Doak and Business Administrator Rick Kusturin.
FOND FAREWELL: Coastal Ridge Principal Sean Murphy will join us for his last York School Committee meeting during his sixteen years of service with the York School Department.
Join us at the York Public Library at 7 p.m. or stream online at https://townhallstreams.com/stream.php?location_id=77&id=52607.
Wishing everyone a safe and happy summer!
Math Minds Want to Know…
How to practice flexible thinking in math?
Whether it’s a rainy day or just a lazy, unwinding kind of day; enjoy these games and resources! Reinforce foundational math skills and concepts that are crucial to building math confidence and success in the classroom!
We celebrate the flexible math thinkers VES students have become!
Click here to view these resources:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RaFFhxCM-i1DIKfEcJQeOZZzFMKZ2MGL/view?usp=drive_link
The first VES Library Book Swap will be taking place the week of June 5th. The concept is simple: students can bring in 1 gently used, age appropriate book before June 5th. Then during their regular library class that week, all students will select a "new to them" book to take home and keep. All students will take home a book even if their family did not send in a book to swap.
VES students from several kindergarten classes visited the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick today to learn about local wildlife up close and personal, including red tailed hawks like this one.
Last week the first grade classes took walking field trips to visit the Old York Historical Society and got a feel for what school life would have been like in a one room schoolhouse in the 18th century!
In the fall the first grade students worked hard to plant hundreds of daffodil bulbs in order to cut in the spring and give to York Hospital to cheer up patients. Today, despite the misty rain, the kids took to the yard to collect the blooms, and Kate Ford from YH, along with her daughter Emma, came to collect them!
Nothing says spring like frogs and tadpoles! Take a look at what the first grade teams here at VES are observing! We're pretty sure one of them is smiling and waving!
May- Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program!
Reminder: everyone can try these items, even if you have home lunch
The last episode of the VES Poetry Project is here! Please enjoy the illustrations done by Mrs. Sarno's first grade students that accompany the poem titled "It's Spring". We hope you enjoyed this project as much as we did!
https://youtu.be/8cTgEz-ReD0
Today we are happy to share the artwork of Mrs. Hatch's Kindergarten class accompanying the poem called "I Love the Flowers". We hope you enjoy number 13 of the VES Poetry Project!
https://youtu.be/aTEusVc4CK4
Good morning! Please enjoy # 12 of the VES Poetry Project and the fantastic illustrations by Mrs. Trenholm's first grade students. Let's see if you can figure out who is narrating the poem called "Spring"!
https://youtu.be/ksw7d05X_GE
We hope you'll take a moment to view the 11th installment of the VES Poetry Project, a poem called "Spring is Coming" featuring illustrations by Mrs. Collin's Kindergarten class. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/yzOnxqDg2JU
In April we celebrate our Volunteers and Community Members! Thanks for everything you do for the York School Department
Here is video number 10 of the VES Poetry Project! Featuring the poem called "Spring Song" and beautiful drawings by Ms. Elgin's first grade class!
https://youtu.be/XvPPAZlFWqk
Volunteer Appreciation Month
Midway through the month of April and the VES Poetry Project, we are happy to present Ms. Barnard's class' fantastic illustrations of the poem "Signs of Spring"! Who do you think is speaking?!
https://youtu.be/Jv-hT_3W_2Q
We are thrilled to present video number 8 of the VES Poetry Project, a poem called "Spring is Here". Illustrations drawn by Mrs. Gentile's first grade class!
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/zxbqoAjEk8g
Thank you to everyone who's been following along at home! The VES Poetry project is excited to drop video number seven - an untitled poem, with amazing illustrations by Ms. Natusch's Kindergarten class!
https://youtu.be/-YiPMZvZNQM
