• December 3 - Saturday School 8-11 AM
• December 10 - Robotics Competition
• December 17 - Saturday School 8-11 AM
• December 17 - Holiday Choir Concert 7PM
• December 22 - 3 Hour Early Dismissal
• December 23 - January 2 - Winter Break NO SCHOOL!

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We need your help! On February 8, 2023 Junior Achievement of South Central PA will be at Dover Area High School with their STEM Summit Program. All students in 10th grade will be participating in the day-long event designed to explore careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

The goal of the STEM Summit is to inspire students to pursue an academic STEM focus in the remainder of their high school courses. After the completion of the STEM Summit, guidance counselors have a foundation to work with students on appropriate course work.

For this day to be a success, we will need volunteers to facilitate ONE of the STEM activities for the day as students rotate through your station. You do not need to have a STEM background to be a great volunteer! If we do not have these volunteer spots filled, we are in danger of not being able to run this meaningful event. Please also share this opportunity with friends, neighbors

and colleagues who may be interested in helping the students of our school. I have attached a flyer with all of the information for the day and a direct link for you to sign-up.

You do not have to be an approved school volunteer to help with this day. Junior Achievement will provide online training as well as on-site support to all volunteers. A light breakfast and lunch will also be available for volunteers. Please consider volunteering and join us as we spend the day empowering and inspiring our students. This opportunity is only possible with the support of wonderful volunteers like you.

To sign up to volunteer, click the link in the flyer or contact Shannon Baker, Vice President Program Operations, at sbaker@jascpa.org.

The Junior/Senior Prom date has been set for Saturday, April 29, 2023. The event will be held at Wisehaven Event Center. Tickets will go on sale in the Spring for all Juniors and Seniors.

Are You Eligible To Attend?

In order to be eligible to attend school-sponsored dances, students must:

• Be Conduct Eligible

• No Tier 3 disciplinary infractions in the prior three months

• Not have an excessive referral count -

• Semester 1 - 5 or more referrals for the school year

• Semester 2 - 10 or more referrals for the school year

• Be Attendance Eligible

• Absent for no more than 10% of school days to date, including excused and unexcused absences

Please keep this in mind as we move through the school year and get closer to Prom. Students who purchase a ticket in March or April but fail to meet the eligibility requirements due to poor attendance or a Tier 3 disciplinary infraction will have their money refunded if the tickets can be resold to another student on a wait list. No money will be refunded to students after April 21, 2023.

Diona Brown, PHEAA Higher Education Access Partner, will be conducting a webinar on December 12th at 6:00 PM on reviewing financial aid offers and funding the gap.

This session will be a discussion on what happens after the FAFSA has been filed, tips to review financial aid offers and options to fill the gap in funding after the financial aid offer. If students and parents are interested in this topic they can register at this link.

Any questions should be directed to:

Email: diona.brown@pheaa.org

Mobile: 717-678-9681

Good afternoon, Dover Area School District families.

We would like to share some news about the school nutrition program for the 2021/22 school year. All of this information may also be found on the “District Nutrition and Wellness” tab on the district website.

• Starting on October 1, 2022, all student breakfasts are free of charge.
• Want to see your child's account balance? Scroll down to Meal Accounts and click make a payment. This will guide you to School Café where parents will create an account to be able to track meals, check balances, make payments and complete the F/R meal application.
  
• Be sure to complete your free and reduced meal applications to assist the district with receiving financial aid from the state based on these applications. This is NOT limited to school meals.

We are reaching out to clarify the food service alerts you may receive for your household. As we have stated in previous messages, school lunches are no longer free for every Dover School District student.

Families are responsible for paying the full price of meals unless they qualify for free or reduced-priced meals for the 2022-23 school year. Since the District began sending alerts, the district has successfully collected over $4,000 in lunch debt. The alerts are intended to collect the rest of the lunch debt incurred since the first day of the 2022-2023 school year. The balance alert calls assist with collecting the payments due for meals that have already been consumed. The low balance alert prevents student meal accounts from going into the negative. The low balance alert is set at $8.00, which gives parents approximately 3 days of lunch to deposit funds before the account is negative. This also allows children to continue to purchase a la carte items. No student with a negative balance can purchase a la carte foods and drinks.

We understand that these alerts may be surprising since they have been turned off for the last 2 years of school; however, it is one of the only ways we can effectively notify and remind parents to pay for their child's meals. The alerts will stop when a negative balance is paid in full, when there is a zero balance or when there is more than $8.00 in a child's account. Negative balances not paid by December 16, 2022, will be turned over to collections. We thank you for your understanding and for paying negative meal balances promptly.