Articles About McKinney Middle School

• Yellow Springs Schools— Track, field repairs proceed

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 23, 2020

  

  The Yellow Springs school district is moving ahead with repairs to the track and field facilities at the middle/high school campus.

• Schools prepare to reopen Aug. 27

  By Carol SimmonsJune 27, 2020

  

  The current message from Ohio’s governor is that schools will reopen in the fall, but local districts will have a great deal of control over how that happens and what the return looks like, Yellow Springs Schools Superintendent Terri Holden told the local school board last week.

• School district extends meal program

  By Carol SimmonsJune 17, 2020

  

  School may have concluded for the summer, but the Yellow Springs student lunch and breakfast program is continuing for an additional month, through the end of June.

• Students adapt to remote learning

  By Carol SimmonsApril 29, 2020

  

  Interacting with teachers and classmates mostly through websites and online programs, distance learning provides an alternative to in-person classes.

• Schools closed through May 1

  By Carol SimmonsApril 4, 2020

  

  Gov. Mike DeWine announced Monday, March 30, that he has ordered the continued closure of all kindergarten through 12th-grade schools until at least May 1.

• School vouchers hit home

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 21, 2020

  

  While some Ohio families benefit, a growing number of the state’s school districts, including Yellow Springs, have found themselves landing in an undesirable position.

• Schools practice mindfulness

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 23, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs High School and McKinney Middle School students this year have the opportunity to participate in an after-school meditative practice on Mondays and a yoga group on Wednesdays, both part of a new mindfulness program that also serves as an alternative to detention for some students.

• Rare all-district production— A musical ‘Scrooge!’ for the holidays

  By Guest ContributorDecember 19, 2019

  

  YSHS is presenting “Scrooge! The Musical” from Thursday, Dec. 12, to Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Foundry Theater, at Antioch College,  920 Corry St.

• Rare all-district production— A musical ‘Scrooge!’ for the holidays

  By Guest ContributorDecember 13, 2019

  

  YSHS is presenting “Scrooge! The Musical” from Thursday, Dec. 12, to Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Foundry Theater, at Antioch College,  920 Corry St.

• Fourth year of taking students ‘Into the Wild’

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 18, 2019

  

  All 65 members of the seventh-grade class at McKinney Middle School participated last month in the three-day, 53-mile,  camping-biking experience known as Into the Wild.