Dear Parents staff and bus garages
Young Scholars will have 2h delay opening today. You can drop your child starting by 9:30AM. Breakfast will not be served.
International Mother Language Day is celebrated every year on February 21. Young Scholars celebrates the day in as many languages as possible as a reminder that linguistic diversity and multilingualism are essential for sustainable development.
Read Across America Week
Black History Month Celebrations
Spelling Bee Winner is Hayden Fredrick
After today’s final spelling bee competition, Spelling Bee Winner is Hayden Fredrick. Congratulations to Hayden!!!!
SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1st
Friday, February 1st, 2019, Young Scholars of Western PA CS will be closed due to the inclement weather conditions.
Re-enrollment 2019-20 School Year
Please complete the online re-enrollment form for your child(ren) at https:// yswpcs.schoolmint.net/signup . It is our policy that current scholars will keep their seats in the school until they graduate, provided they submit a re-enrollment form by March 1, 2019. The re-enrollment period starts on Jan 1, 2019 and ends on March 1, 2019.
Failure to submit a re-enrollment form by the deadline (March 1st) will result in the student losing his/her guaranteed spot for 2019-20 School Year. If the re-enrollment form is submitted after March 1st, the student will be entered into the open enrollment pool of applicants for lottery, a random selection method, or enrollment on a first-come, first- served basis. For more information on student enrollment procedures, please visit our website at https://yswpcs.org/admission-procedures/ .
If you have any siblings that will be attending YSWPCS in the fall, please complete an online application for this child, making sure to click on SIBLING PREFERENCE. Siblings of current students will have a preference to available seats for the following school year.
Being able to anticipate numbers of new and returning students in each grade allows us to make preliminary plans with respect to space and staffing requirements for the coming year. Please let us know if you don’t have internet connectivity and contact the school if you have any questions at 412-668-2064 or info@yswpcs.org.
This year, we are using School Mint to assist us with enrollment and re-enrollment of students. Though you will be receiving the attached letter in the mail, the actual re-enrollment process will be completed electronically.
Here is the procedure for re-enrolling your children:
- You will receive an email and text message with links. You can complete the process using a computer or a smartphone.
- Follow the link and create an account to log into School Mint.
- All of your children who are current students will be listed. Select “Returning” or “Not Returning” for each of your children who are listed. Submit entries.
- For students who are returning, click on the “Re Enroll” box to complete the packet for each one of your children. This packet verifies your child’s information, including grade, address, phone number and email. Sign the bottom of the page. Submit entries.
- Once all of your children are re-enrolled, if there are any siblings who will be new students to YSWPCS, you can click on the green “Add / Edit New Student Application” and follow the prompts to complete an application for that child.
- You will receive a confirmation email for each one of your
If you do not have internet connectivity, please contact the school at 412-668-2064 or info@yswpcs.org to set up a time where you can come in and electronically submit your child’s re-enrollment form. Also, if you haven’t received a text message or email about Re-enrollment by Friday 1/18/19, please contact the school so that we can retrieve your account information.
YSWPCS Annual Winter Concert
This was an exciting event for YSWPCS. The concert for the International Winter Holiday Celebration was a time for students to sing and play winter holiday-themed songs. On the evening of Thursday, December 20th, students in grades K – 5 sang a total of six songs for family members in attendance. The Young Scholars band performed two-holiday songs as well. The Christmas, Hanukah, and Kwanzaa holidays were all featured. This concert was a wonderful success!
4th Annual Spelling Bee Competition
On Wednesday, December 19th, Young Scholars held our annual spelling bee! Students had been hard at work practicing their words to compete in the school competition. The following students were the winners of their individual Spelling Bee Competition:
Alex Weber- 1st grade
Saed Mugwaneza- 3rd grade
Hayden Fredrick- 4th grade
Riley Morgan- 7th grade
Each student that participated in our school spelling bee will receive scholastic dollars to use at our upcoming book fair in January. Both Riley and Hayden will go on to compete in our final spelling bee on in order to qualify for the Regional Spelling Bee! Our final school Spelling Bee will be held on Tuesday, February 5th at 2:00 to determine our winner.
1st Annual Math 24 Challenge
On December 20th, Young Scholars had their 1 st Annual Math 24 competition. Our 4th thru 8th graders competed by figuring out how to make 24 out of 4 numbers using only addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. We had great participation and fun during the competition. Our 4th and 5th grade 24 champion is Abubekir Hatam and Runner-up is Sinan Ali Musah. For middle school, our 24 champion is Jayvon Williams and Runner-up is Nicholas Bender. Great job Scholars! Make sure you keep your math skills sharp!