Wayne County Schools

🧣Students in 3rd grade at Kellogg Elementary have been working on adjectives, and recently finished up their lesson by making winter sweaters. Students came up with adjectives for a descriptive writing assignment. 🤝 5th graders worked with the younger students to edit their work and wrote encouraging notes to their younger counterparts! The writings and sweaters went up on the bulletin board after the lesson. They look great!

👩‍🍳 THS ProStart Students fired up the truck on a chilly afternoon to serve up some fresh bites for some of our administration team! Word on the street is the food was delicious! Thank you, Rebels! 🙏

🇺🇸 Wayne Middle School Agriculture Club Honors Our Veterans! 🌟 The Wayne Middle School Agriculture Club hosted a dinner earlier this month to honor the brave men and women who have served our country. ❤️🍽️ The evening was filled with delicious food, warm conversations, and gratitude for our local heroes. Club members worked hard to prepare and serve the meal, showcasing their dedication not only to agriculture but also to giving back to the community. 🌾🇺🇸 Thank you to all the Veterans who joined us for this special event and to our students and staff for making it a memorable night!

🏈 🔊 Football Playoff Games - Round One Round one action for the 2024 West Virginia High School Football Playoffs is set to kickoff this weekend. All three of our high schools will be in action this weekend, check out the schedule. Good luck to all three teams! 🏈 👏

🌿🌎 Exploring the Wonders of Ecosystems! 🌎🌿 Students at Fort Gay PK8 have been diving deep into the world of ecosystems! From lush rainforests to arid deserts, they’ve been learning how different ecosystems function, what sets them apart, and the unique characteristics that make each one vital to our planet. 🌳🐾🌊 The young ecologists took it a step further by building their own biomes! Through this hands-on project, they recreated the diverse ecosystems they studied, gaining a deeper understanding of their structure, inhabitants, and the intricate balance that keeps them thriving. 🌱✨

💡👉 Free Summer Learning Camps! 👇 👩‍💻 Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is offering two summer study programs: 1️⃣ The Appalachian Entrepreneurship Academy (AEA) 2️⃣ The Appalachian STEM Academy at Oak Ridge. Both are FREE intensive learning experiences specifically for the Appalachian Region’s high school and/or middle school students and teachers. There is no application fee, and ARC covers all travel, lodging and meals for participants. ⬇️ Checkout the attached flyers to learn more about each program and how you can start your application!

👏 BMS and the BMS Community came through for this year's Buffalo Middle School Student Leadership Council's Food Drive. Between homeroom donations and the donations from a recent football game, the school collected more than 1,000 items! 🏆 The top two homerooms at BMS that collected the most items earned a doughnut party Homeroom Winners 👉 Mrs. Canterbury 👉 Mrs. Buckhannon The Facing Hunger Foodbank told the school their donations will provide more than 500 meals! Way to go, BMS!

📐 Building real world math skills in the classroom! Seniors in Mrs. Raines' math class at Wayne High School completed a Trigonometry Architecture Project where students had to create a blueprint and build a model home while using correct mathematical calculations. 🧐 Skills such as calculating angles using inverse trig functions, scale factors, Pythagorean theorem, and using precise measurements were all used in this project. Overall, students had a great time learning valuable math skills they can use in the future.

🚨 Wayne County Schools Superintendent's Advisory Team 🚨 👩‍💻 WCS is accepting applications from current 5th Grade Students who would like to serve on the WCS Superintendent's Advisory Team. A copy of the application is attached to this post. You can also download an application by following the link below. 📅 Applications are due November 7th 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/27naztdd

🎃 October means it is time to breakout the pumpkins. Second graders at East Lynn Elementary read a book about pumpkins during their centers. 🌱 Afterwords, students planted pumpkin seeds and experimented with light, soil, warmth, and water to see which elements are essential for plant growth! Each group is withholding one of those four elements as part of the experiment. The class wrote down their predictions for the pumpkin seed they think will have success. 🔆 💧

Jayden Robertson (Crum) and Will Jones (Wayne PreK) were nominated and selected as Marshall Junior Captains for the 2024 football season. If you watched the rainy September 28th victory against Western Michigan, you may have seen Jayden front and center at the coin toss. He was able to stay dry and enjoy the rest of the game from sky box seats! Similarly, Will was all smiles while being honored on the 20-yard line on the October 5th game against Appalachian State. Both students were nominated for the hard work they put in every week at Cabell's Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinic. They each received an official Marshall University football jersey and were invited to tour Marshall's athletic complex and attend a practice. Thank you, Marshall University, for honoring two of our Wayne County Students. Join us in congratulating these remarkable students for their well-deserved recognition. Their achievements inspire us all and highlight the incredible potential within our community. #WayneCountyProud #StudentSuccess #CommunityExcellence

✅ A first for Wayne County Schools! 🏥 Wayne High School MedEx students are starting their first clinical rotations with Marshall Health Network. Students will be learning alongside healthcare professionals. 👏 This is a tremendous opportunity for students to get real world experience while still in high school. We are excited to see what the future holds for these MedEx Students!

😎 In math centers on Tuesday, East Lynn 2nd graders broke out the headbands to learn about place values! 🎉 Each student wore a mystery 3-digit number on their head while their partner either wrote it in expanded form or built it with place value blocks. The challenge? The student had to guess the number on their head! 😂 They learned so much about place value skills while also having lots of laughs! What a great lesson!

🔥 These five drawings have been submitted to represent Wayne County Schools for the 7th Annual State Fire Marshal Fire Safety Poster Contest. ✍️ 👨‍🚒 This contest encourages students in grades K-5 to learn more about fire safety and show what they learned using their creative abilities. Each year, students from across the state submit their drawings for this contest with the hopes of earning the top spot and a visit from the West Virginia State Fire Marshal! 🏆 In 2022, Dannika Smith, then a Kindergarten student at WES, was named the overall winner. In order, this year's entries are: 👉 Kyndal, Kindergarten 👉 Heater, 1st Grade 👉 Mason, 3rd Grade 👉 Avery, 4th Grade 👉 Edaina, 5th Grade Good luck! Your drawings are wonderful, you are already winners in our book!

⚙️👆 National GEAR Up Week! Students at Wayne High School are getting creative to highlight the GEAR UP program as well as financial aid information for seniors preparing for their next chapter! Way to go, Pioneers! 📸: West Virginia Gear UP GEAR UP HEROs at Wayne High School are spreading program awareness as well as financial aid information for seniors during National GEAR UP Week. Great work HEROs! 💪⚙️

Today, we take a moment to shine a spotlight on the incredible individuals who keep our schools running smoothly behind the scenes. From the dedicated custodians who keep our classrooms clean 🧹, to the cafeteria staff who nourish our students 🍎, to the bus drivers who ensure our kids arrive safely 🚍— and all of the many other personnel professionals in-between — you are the heart and soul of our school community! ❤️ Thank you for your hard work, your kindness, and your unwavering support. You make a difference every day, and our schools wouldn’t be the same without you. 🙏👏 Let’s give a huge shoutout to the heroes who keep our schools strong! 🙌

Community members volunteered their time last weekend to create some exciting new activities on the playground at East Lynn Elementary! PK students were the first to check out the upgrades and the students gave their stamp of approval! Thank you to all who made this possible!

Wayne County Schools Parents & Guardians, There have been a rash of social media threats across the nation this week. These threats are intended to create hysteria and disrupt school operations. Multiple counties in West Virginia have had to deal with non-credible threats this week including some surrounding counties. The latest non-credible threat originates from a western state and lists dozens of schools in West Virginia in an attempt to create as much disruption as possible. The list includes “Wayne High School” and “Valley High School” in reference to a threat for Friday. Law enforcement are aware of these social media posts and the West Virginia Office of Homeland Security School Safety Division closely monitors this activity and notifies school districts and local law enforcement. Law enforcement has determined this threat is non-credible. Please speak with your student about notifying you or adults at the school immediately if they see a threat online involving their school. Wayne County Schools will continue to work with law enforcement partners to monitor these threats.

🤣 😢 😤 🤯 We all feel emotions. While the number varies for everyone, studies have shown the average person has 400 emotional experiences every day. That is nearly 150,000 emotional experiences every year. To learn how to deal with a variety of emotions in a healthy way, students at CK Middle School worked through interactive stations in health class. Some of the activities in the lesson were coloring, laughing, acts of service, and deep breathing. 💚

🎉➕ This is not your average math lesson! 4th graders at East Lynn are currently working on place values. To engage the students in her lesson, Mrs. Ross broke out an elementary school staple...scooters! Students played Place Value Scooter Races. They had to solve a problem and then race out to the hallway on their scooters to collect the number cubes that matched their answer. The students had a blast while also learning an important math skill! 👏 Who else suddenly wants to review place values using scooters!? 🤗🎉