Tune In! throughout the community of Fairview as Fairview Elementary School students continue the gifts of giving this season with a festive evening for families as students caroled for nearby residents. Hot cocoa and cookies topped off the night.
Marion County Schools is a proud participant in the GameChanger initiative. In collaboration with GameChanger, Marion County Schools participated in a combined effort to share the GameChanger-produced film, You Have What It Takes, with students in grades 3-5 today. WVU Basketball Alumni and GameChanger Director of Education and Community Development Meg Bulger as well as WV native Jennifer Garner appear in the film with students from throughout West Virginia. Please check with your child for GameChanger coloring books that will be sent home from participating Marion County Schools. The film is available at https://youtu.be/hEskbypuRyg.
Turn It On! with Marion County Schools special educators, who met for their monthly ABA Book Club meeting tonight. They shared and discussed strategies to build motivation for our neurodiverse learners.
Tune In! and congratulate grades 7 and 8 winners of the Marion County Schools Math Field Day at Fairmont State University today.
8th Grade Math Field Day Winners
Austin Conrad. EFMS - First
Logan Conrad EFMS - 2nd
Armani Islam EFMS - 3rd
Gavin Zicafoose WFMS - 4th
Demarus Yanez-Aranda Monongah -5th
Autumn Davis EFMS - Estimation Winner
7th Grade Math Field Day Winners
Will Fullen WFMS - First
Joey Oliveto WFMS - 2nd
Rio Rohaly WFMS - 3rd
Jaxon Denham WFMS - 4th
Kolben Floyd EFMS - 5th
Kyndal Martin Fairview - Estimation Winner
Tune In! for the 2024 Marion County Schools Math Field Day Winners in grades 4, 5, 6 today.
4th Grade:
1st- Carson Jernigan (Jayenne)
2nd- Matthias Skinner (Monongah)
3rd- Rowan Black (East Park)
4th- Linken Mcie (East Park)
5th- Josie Lambert (Barrackville)
Estimation Winners- Shlok Patel (White Hall) & Carson Wyckoff (White Hall)
5th Grade:
1st- Cooper Fout (WFMS)
2nd- Hallie Moore (Barrackville)
3rd- Cylas Hawkins (Rivesville)
4th- Owen Hacker (EFMS)
5th- Maya Albalwi (WFMS)
Estimation Winners- Christian Makon (EFMS) & Cylas Hawkins (Rivesville)
6th Grade:
1st- Blake Hannah (WFMS)
2nd- Cooper Schrader (WFMS)
3rd- Lucas Jernigan (WFMS)
4th- Bodhi Miller (WFMS)
5th- Hiro Laxton (EFMS)
Estimation Winners- Ezra Layman (Rivesville), Kennleigh Cochran (WFMS), & Cooper Schrader (WFMS)
Good luck to our students in grades 3-8, who are competing in the Marion County Schools Math Field Day today at Fairmont State University.
Thank you to the 36th Governor of the Great State of West Virginia Jim Justice for the announcement this morning of $2.7 million in School Building Authority funding to Marion County Schools for a project that will bring safe schools entrances to 9 of our schools.
Tune In! and catch Monongah Middle School's Choir at the combined Christmas Concert, in partnership with North Marion High School tonight. What an amazing turn out!
Turn It Up! and catch the amazing Fairmont Senior High School Madrigals, under the direction of Mr. Greg DeVito. Yes, Bears! 💙🎶🎼🎤
Tune In! for the newest addition at East Dale Elementary School: window coverings.
Tune In! for "The Sounds of Christmas and the Gift of Giving," featuring a few examples of the students and staff of Marion County Schools who give back to their communities this season at tonight's board of education meeting. They shared gifts from inclusion, student leadership, voice, cooking, to community leadership and more: 1. West Fairmont Middle School (A cappella group) 2. East Park Elementary 3. Mannington Middle School 4. Fairmont Senior High School 5. Jayenne Elementary 6. Marion County Technical Center 7. North Marion High School 8. White Hall 9. East Fairmont High School 10. Blackshere Elementary School 11. Barrackville 12. Barnes Elementary School
Turn It Up! Congratulations to the newest National Board Certified Teachers of Marion County Schools. They will be honored today at the board of education meeting as they join only 1,218 teachers across WV and more than 130,000 NBCTs nationally for this elite honor. The National Board Certification is an advanced teaching credential that is based upon national standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do nation-wide. Not everyone who seeks the credential earns it, so MCS is particularly proud of Susan Conley and Sara Cornwell of West Fairmont Middle School and Heather Summers and Rebecca Walters of Fairmont Senior High School.
Tune In! Mannington Middle School's first Snowball Dance, sponsored by the PTO tonight. What a great time! The dance ended with a Snowball fight and good memories. ❄️💚
Tune In! as Marion County Schools rings in holiday cheer at the Fairmont Christmas Parade with the STEAM bus and the bands of each high school.
Turn It Up! Helping connect families with the right services and support. Marion County Schools counselors had a productive meeting at the Family Resource Network (FRN) today.
• Jan Smith (Director of FRN) shared various family resources available through the network.
• Susan Brennan Brooks (Behavioral Therapeutic Specialist, Healthy Minds) discussed mental health resources aimed at helping children in distress.
• Holly Blatt (BCBA) provided an overview of behavioral support services available to families.
By working together is crucial for ensuring that the services provided are aligned with best practices and meet the needs of families effectively.
Tune In! to the Title I Parent Council Meeting. Mrs. Jolliffe prepared elf-themed STEAM Activities to engage the kids while the families listened to Mrs. Blatt’s ” Elf on Shelf Presentation that provided practical strategies to address behaviors at home.
Students at Fairview Elementary and Fairview Middle will not report to school Friday, December 13, 2024. Fairview Water Department is making the switch over to the new system and both schools will be under a boil water advisory, beginning today after dismissal.
Turn it up! Mannington Middle School 8th graders get a lesson on DNA from North Marion HSTA students Mikayla Mcatee & Alyvia Brooks.
Congratulations to the Marion County Schools Science Fair 1st Place Winners!
They will advance to the Regional Science Fair at Fairmont State University on Saturday, February 15, 2025.
More information will be distributed to your Principals in the coming days regarding the schedule and information for the Regional Science Fair.
Division I (Grades 3-5) - Individual
Engineering - Tanner Diaz (EFMS)
Chemistry - Finn Harris (EFMS)
Math & Data - Logan Myers (East Park)
Material Science- Shepherd Wise (EFMS)
Plant Science - Zoey Reed (East Dale)
Animal Science - PIper Bobo (EFMS)
Physics - Leo Andrew (Pleasant Valley)
Energy - Bryon Mayle (East Park)
Earth & Environmental - Ziva Mitchell (EFMS)
Medical Science - Thatcher Poling (Jayenne)
Behavioral & Social - Judith Miller (White Hall)
Division I (Grades 3-5) - Group
Chemistry - Taylen Erdie/Elsie Stevens (Jayenne)
Physics - Eli Hmarick/Coleton Riggs (EFMS)
Division II (Grades 6-8) - Individual
Material Science - Morgan Mullenax (WFMS)
Medical Science - Rhio Rohaly (WFMS)
Physics & Astronomy - Liliana Guerrero (WFMS)
Energy - Owen Armentrout (EFMS)
Animal Science - Reagan Williams (EFMS)
Plant Science - Madelyn Lutz (WFMS)
Chemistry - Gage Lindsay - (EFMS)
Earth & Environmental - Evelyin Hamilton (Fairview Middle)
Division II (Grades 6-8) - Group
Math & Data - Zoe Willett/Savannah Farcin/Izzy Steele (Barrackville)
Energy - Hudson Southern/Leo Sonnenberg/David Hutchinson (WFMS)
Plant Science - Addison Jordon/Scarlett Poling (WFMS)
Material Science - Hannah Keener/Camele Stevens (WFMS)
Engineering - Bryce Ross/Holdyn Spitznogle (WFMS)
Earth & Environmental - Gabriella Beal/Ella Stoller/Anna Joy (Mannington Middle)
Physics & Astronomy - Jackson Denham/Bradley Schragg (WFMS)
Behavioral & Social Sciences - Beth Glasscock/Maycee Moore/Joelle Washington (Barrackville)
Chemistry - Evangline Moore/Carman Hixenbaugh/Madelyn Plyer (Barrackville)
Animal Science - Zepplin Broadwater/Roman Casuccio/Brody Haught (Barrackville)
Medical Science - Hope Harris/Nayleigh Runion/Quinn Barnes (EFMS)
Technology - Averyonna Domco/Charley O'Dell/Kate Hall (Monongah Middle)
Turn It Up! LOUD! What a celebration to see families, classmates, teachers, and principals cheering nearly 100 of the brightest science students at Marion County's Science Fair tonight. They won at their schools and represented the future engineers, vets, chemists, and more!
