📢 Attention Parents & Students!
For the 2024-2025 school year:
🎒Backpacks must be clear or mesh (see-through!)
🎧 Electronic devices, like AirPods, Beats, headphones, wireless earbuds, or gaming devices are not allowed on campus.
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📣We are excited to announce open recruitment for the YDMS Pep Squad! The squad will consist of 60 members selected on a first-come, first-served basis.
🗓️Please mark your calendars for the uniform fitting on August 20th at 3:30 PM. Parents must accompany students for the fitting session.
💰 Pep Squad fee amount is $500 and is required to be submitted no later than August 23rd.
✅To secure your spot in the YDMS Pep Squad, please complete the registration form available at the following link:
https://forms.gle/viViUrSK1SY6X3EBA
Exciting improvements are coming to our campus! If you need to visit our campus, please be aware that we have a large amount of construction taking place at the front of the school.
Please enter the school from the side parking lot through the double doors by the gym. Then, follow the informational signs for directions.
Youree Drive Main Office is temporarily located in the YDMS Discipline Office.
Reminder: Yearbook sales and pickup until 6pm in cafeteria!
📣 Calling all Spartans! 🛡️ It's time to gear up in style for the 2024-2025 school year! 🎉 Don't miss out on purchasing your new spirit wear from our YDMS Online Spirit Store! 🛍️ Make sure to check out the youth (child) size section and adult size section. Get ready to show off your Spartan pride! 🖤💛
🔗 Link to Online Spirit Store: ydms2024.itemorder.com/shop/sale
🔗 Link to 24-25 YDMS Uniform Policy: www.youreedrive.com/o/ydmapm/article/1624045
Congratulations to Ms. Truman for being selected as a Teacher Leader Advisor! #SpartanProud
Yearbook Sale Round 2!⚡️ We have a few more yearbooks available for purchase. Please stop by on Thursday 5/30 between 4-6pm to grab yours! Cash only! ▪️2023-2024 Yearbook - $70 ▪️Previous Yearbooks - $10 Can’t make it? Have questions? msanders@caddoschools.org
🖤💛⚜️Spartans represent at Louisiana Teacher Leader 🖤💛⚜️
We are so proud of our very own YDMS teacher, Ashley Salinas, who will be presenting this week at the Louisiana Teacher Leader Conference in New Orleans. #SpartanProud #TeachingTeachers #ProfessionalDevelopment
🌞📚 **Summer Reading!** 📚🌞
6th Grade: 📖 *Esperanza Rising*
7th Grade: 📚 *Restart*
8th Grade: 📕 *Freak the Mighty*
📢 Hey Parents! 👋 We know you’ve got a lot on your plate right now. 🍽️ Make things a little easier for next year! 🎒✨ Order your 2024-25 school supplies today online. Just click and order an EPI pack today! 🖱️📦 Your supplies will be shipped to our school and waiting for your child when school starts. 🎒📚
🛒 Order now with our School ID: YOU007 at www.educationalproducts.com/shoppacks
🌐✨School Supply List
www.youreedrive.com/o/ydmapm/article/1149738
Join us Wednesday, May 22nd for our Yearbook Pick-Up and Sale!⚡️
1-2pm: Students can come and get their yearbooks signed by their friends! (If you did not pre-order a yearbook, your child can still participate if you purchase a book this day!)
1-6pm: Pre-ordered yearbooks may be picked up from the front circle. *WE HAVE EXTRAS FOR SALE ALSO! You must bring $70 in cash in order to purchase.*
🔥We will also be selling limited copies of our 2021-2022 & 2022-2023 yearbooks for $10 each this day only!🔥
Questions? msanders@caddoschools.org
🎉🏐 Congratulations to the amazing students who made the YDMS Volleyball teams for the 24-25 season! 🏐🎉
Don’t let your student miss out on our 2025 trip to Washington, D.C.! Join us at our mandatory enrollment meeting on Friday, May 17th with all the info about our itinerary, what’s included, and flexible payment options.
Reminder: A RSVP is mandatory to come to the meeting. We will be offering an enrollment discount night of, so to ensure you’re eligible, please make sure you use the link below:
RSVP here >>> https://bit.ly/3ybZdpk (https://bit.ly/3ybZdpk)
Hope to see you,
Trinity Jones, M.Ed.
📣📣📣 Parents! Thank you for your patience as we navigated shipping for our 2023-2024 yearbooks!
We are inviting students who purchased a yearbook to come out to YDMS next Wednesday, May 22nd from 1-2 pm to see their friends and get their books signed!
Can’t make it? Our staff will be in the front circle that day from 2-6 pm so you can drive through and pick yours up.
**WE HAVE ONLY A FEW YEARBOOKS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT ORDER - please email msanders@caddoschools.org to reserve your copy or to make alternate arrangements to receive your pre-ordered copy.**
We had a blast celebrating the end of the year with our phenomenal 6th and 7th graders today! ☀️ It's been amazing watching you all learn and grow this year. Who knew conquering middle school could be so much fun? Here's to an epic summer break and an even more incredible year ahead! #YooreeDriveMiddleSchool #EndofYearFun #SummerBreak
👏 🎉 6th and 7th Grade Celebrations are tomorrow! Students are allowed to dress down. Students who owe fines and fees will not be able to participate. Students have been given this information for several weeks. Concessions will also be available for purchase. We are looking forward to a fun day!
A huge congratulations to our incredible 8th grade graduates! It's been such a privilege to watch you learn, grow, and become the amazing young people you are today. You've faced challenges, celebrated victories, and left your mark on Youree Drive! Spartan scholars, we are so excited to see you shine even brighter in high school. Keep that #SpartanPride alive! ✨ #YoureeDriveMiddleSchool
YDMS Engineering students had their Bakowski Bridge of Lights show highlighted in a celebration of engineering and art at the Central Art Station in downtown Shreveport. These light shows were created to play on the bridge to music using state of the art LED lighting and software. #SpartanProud
🌴✨Just can't get over the epic vibes from our last school dance - Tropical Times! 🎉 From the vibrant decor to the infectious beats (thanks to DJ 3 Feet), it was pure paradise on the dance floor! 💃🕺 Big shoutout to everyone who brought those good vibes and made it an afternoon to remember! Let's keep riding that wave of positivity till next year's bash! 🌺🎶 #TropicalTimes #GoodVibesOnly #SchoolDance
‼️Cash sales for dance and dress down available Friday morning for $12, cash only‼️
YDMS Student Council presents the last dance of the year, "Tropical Vibes and Good Times," featuring the infamous DJ 3 Feet! This dance will take place on Friday, May 10th, 2:30-4:30. Students who purchase a ticket will be allowed to dress down that day! Tropical attire is encouraged but not required. Concessions will be available for $2/item at dance.
