Wayne County 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!

Halftime in Charleston Spring Valley - 22 Huntington - 40

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.

The Family Engagement Event taking place online at 5 p.m. today has been postponed indefinitely due to unforeseen circumstances.

Spring Valley's Macy Smith snagged the top spot in SPAR (Spontaneous Argumentation) at the West Virginia State Speech and Debate Competition in Morgantown! Congratulations on your first place finish, Macy!

Pictured are students from Ceredo-Kenova Middle School and Buffalo Middle School. These schools won the last two MATHia competitions. Superintendent Alexander presented each school with the MATHia trophy based on their overall math performance for the six weeks grading periods. The second six weeks winner was Ceredo-Kenova Middle School, and the third six weeks winner was Buffalo Middle School. Congratulations to CKMS and BMS! Which school will be the next winner of the coveted MATHia trophy?

Fort Gay PK-8 will release at 10:AM, Monday March 11th due to a water outage.

This ground beef was raised and processed by students at Tolsia High School. Later this month, cooks at THS are going to use that meat for two farm to table lunches. - March 15th, Hamburgers - March 20th, Spaghetti w/meat sauce Locally grown/raised food tastes fresh and is extremely nutritious. Great job by all those who made this farm to table meal possible!

There are multiple opportunities for parents to take part in Wayne County's Family Engagement meetings this month! See this flyer for more information!

Another dominant season for the Lady Pioneers is in the books. They fell just short against Nitro in today's state basketball tournament semifinal matchup. The game was close the entire second half and came down to the final few possessions. The effort on display today, and all season, has been fun to watch. Congratulations on a great year! Nitro - 53 Wayne - 43

Halftime in Charleston Nitro - 28 Wayne - 21 The Lady Pioneers played a tough 2nd quarter to battle back into the game. Finish strong, Pioneers!

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Tolsia High Schgool will release at 8:30 AM due to a power outage.

This week we are highlighting 2 different Governor’s Schools: The Governor’s Honors Academy and the Governor’s School of Literacy through Arts, Culture, and History. The application deadline for both of these programs is March 29th. The Governor’s Honors Academy requires a letter of recommendation from the Superintendent which should be completed by March 22nd at the latest! For instructions on how to apply or more information, visit the link here: https://wvde.us/gov-schools/

Halftime in Charleston Huntington - 16 Spring Valley - 22 Dria Parker is the leading scorer for the Timberwolves with eight 1st half points. Allie Daniels leads all players in rebounds with 10.

If you are heading out on a road trip, fueling up your car is a must. The same is true for people too. Our bodies need fuel to function properly. A nutritious (and delicious) breakfast sets students up for the rest of the day. To highlight the importance of a nutritious breakfast, the School Nutrition Association has designated this week as National School Breakfast Week. As a part of this campaign, WCS cooks created a special breakfast menu for the week. A strawberry cream bagel was on the menu today!

At the half - Wayne - 38 Keyser - 10 WHS' Addie Adkins has hit five threes and leads all scorers at the half with 15 points.