East Fairmont Middle School

East Fairmont Middle Families: During the period of Sept. 6-16, 2022, MCS will be administering a survey to students, teachers, and families. The WE SUPPORT Survey is designed to inform schools and districts about expectations and perceptions the community has about student learning. The survey is structured around three main areas: • Rigor • Relevance • Relationships To take the survey, parents/guardians do the following: • Go to www.wesurvey.org • Enter the case sensitive password that is unique to your child’s school (copy > paste works best): CMC13EF •When all questions have been answered, click Submit for your responses to be recorded. Thank you in advance for completing this survey by Sept. 16, 2022. You need to complete one for each school in which your children are enrolled, using the code for that building above. The insight you provide will be valuable in our ongoing efforts to improve student achievement. WE SUPPORT survey takes 10-15 minutes to complete. Your responses are anonymous, so please answer all questions honestly. Please try to provide your perceptions and expectations of your child’s school or district overall. Thank you.

Spirit Week - Sept. 6 - 9 Monday - No School Tuesday - Pajama Day Wednesday - Blue and Gold Day Thursday - Dress as your favorite teacher Friday - Neon Day Help us cheer on the hornet football team as they take on WFMS by participating in the themed days listed.

Congratulations to the cross country teams for the results from the meet in Buckhannon. The girls placed first and the boys second. Individual winners were: Ben 8th, Brady 9th, Dominic 14th,Grayson 15th for the boys and Anna 15th, Lily 6th, Jenna 4th, and Annabelle 3rd for the girls.

East Fairmont will be dismissing at noon due to water issues. Children will follow regular dismissal procedures as far as riding a bus or leaving with walkers unless we are notified of alternate plans. Thank you!

Congratulations to our cross country teams as the girls finished 5th overall and the boys 6th at the Mountain Hollar Race tonight. Annabelle Skidmore placed 8th.

Congratulations to our Hornet Football Team in their 42-20 win over the Husky Pups tonight!

East Fairmont Middle 8th graders started their Steam experiences in the Marion County Steam Lab. Students are working on construction activities during their two day experience.

Thank you to the great group of staff members led by Ms Renita Golson that coordinated the efforts for our Open House. It was great having our families and community members able to come in and participate in some of the activities that were occurring and just spend a family friendly evening in our school. Over 150 families participated in this evenings events. What a great way to kick off what is going to be a great school year!

Tonight during open house, parents were asked to share their hopes for their hopes and dreams for their students. Here are the grade level posters that were created.

EFMS Open House is under way!

You are invited to East Fairmont Middle's first Open House on Tuesday, August 30th from 5 to 7 pm. Stop by to learn more about our PBIS program, student art classes, the STEM club, math field day, and the food pantry program at 1st Church of the Nazarenes. Come hungry and thirsty because we will have Carolina Market, Uncle V's Kickin Chicken, and Bubble Lemonade. Bubble Lemonade is generously donating 10 percent of their profit to the school. Raffle baskets, as well as, many PRIZES and GIVEAWAYS donated from Subway, Dairy Creme, Rita's, Stone Tower Brewery, Spa Oasis, Wendy's, and more.

6th grade teachers welcomed students back last week and spent some valuable time getting to know the students and building positive relationships!

Congratulations to our Cross Country teams! Boys finished 2nd overall and girls finished 1st. Individuals that placed were Annabelle Skidmore placed 3rd, Jenna Conaway and Lily Stuck also placed in the top 10!

Please join EFMS for our Fall Open House on August 30th from 5 - 7 pm!

Thank you to all of our students and parents for a great first day!!!! East Fairmont Middle was buzzing with excitement as our students returned to the classrooms today. A few reminders: Parents are not to come into the parking lot during morning drop offs or afternoon pickups. Drop off is to occur along Mason Street. Please have your student exit the car as soon as you get stopped on Mason and then walk toward the yellow stairs. This simple step will help keep traffic flowing. Can't wait to see all of our kiddos back tomorrow!

East Fairmont Middle does not allow the use of personal communication devices in the classrooms. Cellphones and other devices are to be turned off and placed in the locker during the school day. Devices that are being used or seen out during the school day will be sent to the office. Students can retrieve these devices at the end of the day for their first offense. After that, parents will need to come into the office to retrieve them and repeated offenses will also result in structured lunch. Wireless earbuds, smart watches that are being used to communicate with people, and other like devices all fall under this policy as well. If you need to contact your child during the school day for emergency purposes, please call 304-367-2123. Encourage your child to follow school policies as they are in place for maximizing learning and safety through the school day!

County Policy for COVID now is a minimum five day quarantine if your child is positive. These days will be counted as excused. Please notify the school by calling 304-367-2123, emailing Ms. Snodgrass at hsnodgra@k12.wv.us or sending a message through our official Facebook page as soon as you know your child is positive so that we can discuss the date of return. The child will also need to wear a mask on days 6 through 10. Students who have tested positive will not be allowed to actively participate in school sports until at least day 11.

East Fairmont Middle would like to welcome Danielle Bittenbender to the Hornet Family. Danielle will be our school counselor/social worker here in the fall. Below is a brief bio that she wrote to share with our Hornet Family. "My name is Danielle Bittenbender and I am the new counselor at East Fairmont Middle School. I graduated with my Masters from West Virginia University in 2013. Prior to WVU I went to Southern New Hampshire University on a basketball scholarship where I majored in Forensic Psychology. A fun fact about me is that I am from New York but I can’t stand the Yankees (sorry if we have any Yankee fans, don’t hold it against me). I can’t wait for the year to start and to work with the kids!" Welcome Danielle!

We are so excited and have been working so hard to make sure things are ready, we have not put out many reminders of details about daily runnings of the school. Students can be dropped off between 6:45 and 7:15. If you are going to drop your child off, the procedure is to go up Alta Vista to Mason St. Turn right onto Mason. Once on Mason, please let your child out anywhere along that sidewalk. They will then walk to the yellow stairs, down the hill, across the driveway, and into the building. Parents should NOT enter the parking lot during morning drop off or afternoon pick up. Classes start at 7:20 so it is important that all students be in the building by 7:15. Afternoon dismissals will start at 2:14. We will call for early busses at that time. Once the busses have been loaded and pull out, we will dismiss walkers. Walkers are to exit the building through the front door, cross the driveway at the crosswalk, go up the steps, and leave from there. Please be patient the first week during drop off and pick up as we have approximately 750 students and a large majority of those chose not to ride school provided busses.

Thanks to Woodmen Life for providing breakfast for our staff this morning while they completed necessary projects to make sure we are ready for students on Monday. Student Council also provided drinks and snack for today!