Wayne County Schools

3rd and 4th Graders at Genoa Elementary recently teamed up for a Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Lesson. PLTW lessons incorporate some component of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics or STEM. PLTW Programs continue to draw more interest from students each year! Check out the pictures from this lesson, and if you would like to learn more about PLTW, follow this link to their website 👉 https://www.pltw.org/about

✅ 2024-2025 WCS School Calendar 🗓 The 2023-2024 school year is quickly coming to an end. This has been a great year so far and we are excited for all that is still to come! 👉 Looking Ahead: The 2024-2025 school year is starting to take shape. The WVDE recently approved the WCSBOE's schedule for the 24-25 school year. 🔎 At a Glance: Dunlow Elementary Principal Kim Mills, and her team, created this flyer highlighting important dates and times (first and last days, grading periods, holiday breaks, etc.) for the 24-25 school year. Thank you, Mrs. Mills and the Dunlow Elementary Team for putting this flyer together! Let's finish out this year strong!

Genoa and Dunlow Elementaries will be closed today due to flooding.

All Wayne County schools will operate on a 2 hour delay tomorrow, Aprill 12th, 2024 due to flooding.

More than 500 students from across the state descended on the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center on Wednesday for the 2024 West Virginia Social Studies Fair. It was incredible to see the sheer number of projects on display in one location. WCS had 14 projects (26 students in all) in this year's state fair. Our educators always encourage their students to challenge themselves academically, even if that means stepping out of their comfort zone. We are proud of every single student who competed Wednesday. Making it to the state level, in any event, is not easy. Well done! The following WCS Students earned a top 4 spot in their category! Congratulations!!

Today we are highlighting the Governor's School of Tourism for current 9th and 10th grade students. Students will have the opportunity to travel the Mountain State for 10 days visiting historical landmarks, staying at State Park Lodges, and learning the ins-and-outs of West Virginia's hospitality and tourism sector! A recommendation from the superintendent is required to apply, so start working on the application process now so you can have everything in by the April 26th deadline. For more information and application instructions, visit: https://wvde.us/gov-schools/

Wednesday was a busy, but productive, day for high school CTE students. They met with representatives from the Insulators Union to talk about potential career paths and they toured the building to get a better understanding of all that is available there. In the afternoon, students met with representatives from Electrical Union in Huntington. They also toured their facilities, and had the opportunity to talk with members about a career in this field, how to get started, and more. It was an informative day and provided students with encouragement as they begin to plan for life after high school.

All Wayne County schools will release 3 hours early tomorrow, April 11th, due to extreme weather warnings.

Today is the West Virginia State Social Studies Fair and several of our students are there competing! Judging began at 10:00 this morning at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center and runs through the afternoon. At 4:30, projects will be available for the public to view, with the awards ceremony starting at 5:30. If you can't make the ceremony, you can still see the results! Results will be available online around 4:30. Results 👉 https://wvssfair.com/archive/

WCS is blessed to have incredibly talented employees who are passionate about helping students achieve their goals! They often show up early and/or stay late to make sure their students have everything they need for tests, projects, or competitions. We encourage our employees to nominate their co-workers they feel should be recognized for going above and beyond for their school and students. The following employees were recently recognized by the WCSBOE for their outstanding work and commitment to students! Richard Brumfield- Transportation Sydney Paynter- Genoa Elementary School Stephen "Denny" Brown- Transportation Jamie Dyer- Transportation Herman Dingess-Transportation Pam Reynolds-Ceredo Kenova Elementary School Brandi Adkins- Ceredo Kenova Elementary School Frankie Ramey- Ceredo Kenova Elementary School Congratulations to you all! WCS is lucky to have you!

Lights, Camera, Action! The SVHS Theater Department put on their winter production last month! The play, titled SEEK, is about high school senior Rob Radkovitz's quest to find his father. Inspired by his fascination with radios, Rob chooses to write his autobiography for English Class in the form of a radio play. In an attempt to fill the empty space left by the man he's never met, Rob tunes into radio stations across the country and beyond to listen to announcers, one of whom might just be his DJ father. Students put forth a tremendous amount of time and effort rehearsing for this play and it showed. From start to finish, the audience was drawn in. Congratulations to the cast and crew on a successful show! And a big Thank You to everyone in the community who came out to watch students shine bright on stage.

Zoey Adkins, Ryder Barry, Sophie Napier & Logan Turner recently represented WCS in the 2024 All-State Children's Chorus. They spent 2 day's rehearsing & performing with 230 students from all over the state. This year's All-State Children's Chorus was directed by Ken Berg. Mr Berg is also the director of the internationally renowned Birmingham Boys Choirs. He had a wealth of knowledge to share with the students. It was a great experience for everyone involved! Congratulations Zoey, Ryder, Sophie, and Logan!

5th Graders at Kellogg Elementary recently finished up their unit on stars. To get a closer look at what they learned, they class took a trip to the SkyLab! The students had a great time immersing themselves in outer space.

The application deadline for the Governor's School of Entrepreneurship has been moved back to April 30th! 9th, 10th, and 11th graders interested in applying for this free Summer program can find out more here: https://wvde.us/gov-schools/

Tomorrow, March 20th, is WVU's Day of Giving. This event helps provide a unique learning opportunity at the Science Adventure School (SAS). Learn more about the program below, and check out the flier to see how you can get involved tomorrow! Science Adventure School is an important program to our school, and our friends from SAS have reached out to ask for our support to keep it going. The program costs over $800 per student to run, but it’s FREE for students and they want to keep it that way. Any monetary donations are extremely helpful, but you can help a lot by simply liking and sharing this post as well as participating in the challenges throughout the day on March 20th.

This week we are highlighting the Governor's STEM Institute for 7th graders at WVU and 8th graders at the Green Bank Observatory! These free Summer programs provided by the WVDE will explore Sports Science (WVU) and the far reaches of outer space (Green Bank)! For more information and instructions to apply you can visit the link here: http://wvde.us/gov-schools

Congratulations to all of the county winners in this year's Young Writers contest! These students will be recognized by the WCSBOE at their April 9th board meeting. The students who placed first in their grade level will have their writings submitted for the state-wide Young Writers Contest. Those results will be announced in May!

There is still time to apply for the Superintendent's Student Advisory Team! Applications are due by the end of the day tomorrow, March 15th. Student's on the advisory team will provide valuable insights from a student's perspective to WCS Administrators. More information about about the advisory team and the application are below!

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Wayne County Robotics League has 18 teams qualified for 2024 WV State Championship VEX IQ Robotics Competition: Full Volume. Championship matches take place this Thursday (03/14/2024) for middle school teams and this Friday and Saturday (03/15-03/16) for elementary teams at Fairmont State University in Fairmont, WV. On the Alliance fields, teams work with other students from around the state to score points by using their robots to remove blocks from starting positions, place blocks in goal towers, and clear blocks and then park their robots in the Supply Zone. On the Skills fields, teams independently demonstrate their driving and autonomous coding skills to score points in the same manner. Teams are also judged on their Engineering notebooks, which are maintained throughout the season and demonstrate all growth and changes in the team and their robots, as well as rigorous interviews. Qualifying Wayne County teams hail from: Elementary Middle Buffalo Elementary Buffalo Middle Ceredo-Kenova Elementary Ceredo-Kenova Middle East Lynn Elementary Crum PK8 Lavalette Elementary Vinson Middle Prichard Elementary Wayne Middle Spring Valley High School robotics team 57660W Project Valley took home the Design Award at the recent 2024 WV State Championship VEX Robotics Competition: Over Under! This win secured the team a spot to compete in the World Championship in Dallas, TX in April! The Design Award recognizes this team’s organized and professional approach to the Engineering Design Process, project and time management, and team organization via their Engineering Notebook and Team Interview. Both Spring Valley Robotics teams earned their way to compete at this year’s state championship.