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Anonymous
| What is offered at the school? |
Anonymous
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Art & PE are part of the regular curriculum, PE is taught in Chinese.
Aftercare options include: Music (violin & recorder) and some sports (Kung Fu + dance + soccer) and Caligraphy. REEF is the name of the very high-quality aftercare program. It also offers Mad Science, Homework Club, Computer Class, Lego Class, World Crafts, some others, and of course lots of field trips. Some grades also seem to have soccer teams that play in a DC parks & rec league. |
Anonymous
| Not OP, but curious about "specials" generally: How many times a week, and for how long each time, do the kids get art, PE, music (if not aftercare-only), science, library, or anything else that Yu Ying considers a "special" (generally, a subject taught by a teacher other than the homeroom teacher)? Also, how many recesses a day do the kids get, and for how long each time? Many thanks in advance! |
Anonymous
Art & PE are 2x per week. Science and social studies are integrated into the inquiry curriculum. The students spend one day all in English, the next day all in Chinese. The lessons are coordinated so that, for example, if they're learning about forms of matter (liquid, solid, gas) in one, then they're receiving the same lesson in the other. One recess. |
Anonymous
Science is taught by the "homeroom" teacher, either in English or Chinese, depending on the day. Music is not taught during the day. Some teachers, particularly in the prek/K levels, incorporate songs into the regular day -- morning meeting for K, one day in Chinese, the next in English. I don't think that my 3rd grader gets any (or certainly not much) music at school. Our family does not participate in the recorder/violin aftercare. Recess is about 30 minutes per day. YY does not have a library, nor a librarian. The new building next year is slated to have a media center, but unclear what that means (e.g., will there be a full time staff member with classes visiting once a week-- don't know). |
Anonymous
Do the kids have to be any minimum age (or grade) for the recorder, violin, or any of the sports? Thanks! |
Anonymous
| Pre-K kids only have the recorder option. Not sure if K kids can do violin or not. This is a DC Youth Orchestra program so it's done according to their rules. In the past tennis has been offered in the spring for 1st grade and up. All ages can do Kung Fu and Chinese dance. Not sure about soccer but the class was run by Soccer Tots. |
Anonymous
Recorder for Prek/K, Violin for 1st to 3rd grades. Soccer, I think, was 1st and up, but soccer tots was a bit of a disaster and I would not enroll my child again. There are parents that sign up for the same team through Stoddert Soccer (a weekend thing, not related to YY, except that there is some parent coordination via the list serve). I think that group is preK and up. This session (winter trimester), there are 2 yoga classes, one preK/K, one 1st to 3rd. The KungFu classes are also available to the whole school, but higher grades on some days, lower on others. Everything mentioned here is in the aftercare program. |
Anonymous
| Can you pay for one class or do you need to sign up on a monthly basis? |
Anonymous
You can go to whatever you like. You're charged for what you use. |
Anonymous
| In order to go to the "special" classes, there is an extra fee. You sign up by the trimester and commit to paying the fee for ~ 3 months. so, for example, yoga $20, mad science $40, I forget the charge for violin/recorder, maybe $30 - $60. Those are monthly fees. Plus, you pay a base fee per month. Two afternoons a month are ~$160. That is the least that you can elect to use. If you "drop in", it's $20 a day. But you cannot "drop in" to the classes where there is an extra fee. You also can only "drop in" to classes that are not already full. |
Anonymous
So full aftercare is ~$400/month plus any additional fees associated with "special" classes, such as yoga or violin? (Appreciate the information -- just trying to make sure I have it straight.) |
Anonymous
| yes, $400 per month is about right. It's pricey, but good. Been at a DCPS school where it was cheap, but bad. There is a 10% discount for sibling on aftercare, and a different rate schedule for those who qualifity for Free and Reduced Lunch (FARMS). |
Anonymous
Thanks, PP. Do you know offhand approximately what percentage of Yu Ying students qualifies for FARMS? I feel like I've read 25-30% somewhere -- maybe on these boards -- but I just have a hard time believing a number that low for any DC public school outside of JKLM. |
Anonymous
| Yu Ying is 10% according to greatschools.org. |