Finalist! Congratulations to Pleasant Valley Elementary, which has been selected as an West Virgina Department of Education Exemplary Practice Program finalist! Applicants are asked to apply based upon student achievement and connect to WV Standards for Effective Schools.
"BEE-lieve the greatness" at Pleasant Valley Elementary today as students are celebrating the art in the lions and lambs of March, the sounds of reading with interactive boards, and the class of the month! It's all on Hat Day going into Dr. Seuss Week.
Fairmont State University Nursing Students inform Barnes Learning Center students on the dangers of vaping thought the Catch My Breath vape cessation program.
What a special day for learners at East Dale Elementary today as students are reading, writing, and presenting about architect Gaudi. Writing best practices with Thinking Maps, art displays, and modeling galore. And, Green Eggs and Ham Day as students are celebrating reading.
East Park Elementary special assembly today for PBIS with special guest Tygart Valley United Way.
Fairmont State Football visits Jayenne Elementary and read to all classes today. Thank you to FSU for all you do for Marion County Schools.
We aren't LION! 🦁Monongah Elementary School students are growing in reading and writing and math as well as their school-wide support of an exploration of plants and gardening through these core subjects today and every day. ❤️
Jayenne is Blue Ribbon quality today with Flat Stanley traveling to states all over the country, including Roll Tide Country, addressing envelopes, creating ponds for 🦩s in art, and all kinds of Whacky Wednesday fun to promote the love of reading for March
2 Dr. Seuss's Day.
Marion County Schools registration for Summer SOLE opens March 4 through April 22, 2024. SOLE for students in grades K-12 will be July 9-July 30. Registration of your child helps us prepare staffing, meals, and transportation at sites. See https://forms.office.com/r/PxfqdNHLVh.
The school counselors of Marion County met today to get updates on current topics, including a book study opportunity, in collaboration with Communities of Shalom, Marion County's Prevention Coalition, on The Neuro Whereabouts Guide.
Round 2 of Quiz Bowl at White Hall Elementary, led by teachers Ms. Tracy Rogers and Ms. Jessica Ford, tonight!
Magical music put to the 7 days of the week at Fairview Elementary today.
School-wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support teams from throughout Marion County Schools met tonight to discuss successes and next steps with their schools on positive behavior intervention and supports.
The catch watched around the nation is now forever immortalized in the halls of North Marion High School as Landon Frey received a handmade frame from Terry Brewer and Andy Price of the MCS Maintenance Department at a special ceremony. Humble Frye thank his quarterback and team.
"Experience excellence" greets students at entrance of White Hall. They can explore a Lego set up, the vocabulary term "droop" as they read literature about sunflowers, explore art connections, showcase animal habitats, and GROW through teachers, staff, and student interns.
Inequal numbers and number lines, helping and linking verbs, and careers in farming are topics discussed if you pop into some of the classrooms today at Mannington Middle School. The gators are on the move! 💚🐊
April is Month of the Military Child. Join us in saluting our special signing days at our high schools:
🇺🇸NMHS - Thursday, April 18th 12:00 - 1:00
🇺🇸EFHS - Tuesday, April 23rd 1:30-2:30
🇺🇸FSHS - Thursday, April 25th 8:00 - 9:00
Seeking applications for Governor's Schools of West Virginia! Submission Deadlines for Marion County:
Governor’s Schools for Middle School Students
• Governor's School of Literacy through the Arts, Culture, and History (GSLACH (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/arts-culture-and-history/)) – current 8th grade students (application deadline for counties is March 22, 2024)
• Governor's STEM Institute (GSI (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/stem-institute/)) (WVU) – current 7th grade students (application deadline for counties is April 5, 2024)
• Governor's STEM Institute (GSI (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/stem-institute/)) (Green Bank) – current 8th grade students (application deadline for counties is April 5, 2024)
Governor’s Schools for High School Students
• Governor's Computer Science Institute (GCSI (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/computer-science-institute/)) – current 9th and 10th grade students (application deadline for students is April 5, 2024)
• Governor's Honors Academy (GHA (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/honors-academy/)) – current 11th grade students (application deadline for counties is March 22, 2024)
• Governor's School for Entrepreneurship (GSE (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/school-of-entrepreneurship/)) – current 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students (application deadline for students is M
arch 15, 2024
)
•
Governor's School for the Arts (
GSA (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/arts/)
) – current
10
th
grade students (application deadline for students is
March 15, 2024
)
Please submit all applications to your school no later than the date listed beside each Academy or Institute.
Help us take a bite out of the apple. Support the Marion County Schools Bond at the polls on May 14, 2024.
See what we have planned for Watson Elementary: https://fb.watch/qsWKqXkDVc/
Learn more about the bond: https://www.marionboe.com/page/bond
Congratulations to the Marion County Schools Social Studies Fair winners who will advance to regional competition at Glenville State University in March.
Division I (Grades 3-5) - Individual
Milly Mayer (East Dale Elementary) - Sociology
Piper Bobi (Pleasant Valley Elementary) - US History
Ella Moore (Rivesville Elementary) - World History
Laney Moore (East Dale Elementary) - Geography
Taylor Eakle (East Fairmont Middle ) - Economics
Thatcher Poling (Watson Elementary) - Anthropology
Maci Biggie (Pleasant Valley) - Political Science
William Ford (East Fairmont Middle) - State & Local
Hope Harris (East Dale Elementary) - Psychology
Division I (Grades 3-5) - Group
Eli Hamrick/Colton Riggs (Pleasant Valley) - Anthropology
Jake Cutlip/Finn Harris/Shep Wise (Pleasant Valley) - US History
Tayah Berg/Aubrey Hoffman (Pleasant Valley) - Geography
Lauren Lodge/Emme Wilson (Plesant Valley) - Psychology
Reese Claybrook/Leona Brammer/Jeanette McCulley (Watson Elementary) - State & Local
Hayden Heston/Nova Jenkins (Pleasant Valley) - World History
Division II (Grades 6-8) - Individual
Kyle Brown (East Fairmont Middle School) - Anthropology
Brooklyn Myers (East Fairmont Middle School) US History
Division II (Grades 6-8) - Group
Ella Bledsoe/Alyza Lake (East Fairmont Middle School) - Sociology
Jenna Conaway/Sloan Nichols/Aubrey Stevenski ( East Fairmont Middle School) - US History
Division III (Grades 9-12) - Individual
Jaden Dawson (EFHS) - World History
Division III (Grades 9-12) - Group
Ayla Webster/Rockett Nichols (EFHS) - Geography
Jessie Wiseman/Kendall Grace (EFHS) - Anthropology
Jenna Wilson/Bella Hicks (EFHS) - Political Science
Cam Brunett/River McClain (EFHS) - Sate & Local
Jon Jett/Adrian Fleming (EFHS) - Psychology
Rae Silvis/Brayden Christopher (EFHS) - Sociology
