Today and everyday MCS celebrates Administrative Professionals Day. The day recognizes the work of secretaries, administrative assistants, executive assistants, personal assistants, receptionists, client services representatives, and other administrative support professionals.
We are so excited to see our families and community come out this weekend to support literacy in Marion County. Talk. Sing. Read. Succeed. The Marion County Schools Family Literacy Fair is back face-to-face this year! 📚 💙
Nearly 40 representatives from business, industry, career technical and higher education were on hand to meet families and students at Marion County School’s first county-wide Industry, Career and Business Fair for grades 5-12 tonight, 5-7 PM at the Fairmont Senior Field House.
Good luck to the North Marion Husky Band, which had its final practice before leaving to perform at the Heritage Music Festival Competition in Williamsburg. #pullthesled
Dreaming of the Future: Mrs. Moore's first grade class at Jayenne Elementary began creating time capsules on 02/22/22 to be opened on 03/03/33, which will be their senior year of high school. They included photos, projects, drawings, and personal items.
MCS is participating in the inaugural WV Military Signing Week, which acknowledges and honors students who have made a commitment to military service in the U.S. Armed Forces following their graduation. Ceremonies are scheduled at East Fairmont and North Marion later this week.
🚨 On April 26, 2022 the place to be is the Career, College, and Industry Fair for students in grades 5-12! We will see you 5-7 PM.
Welcome back, Marion County Schools! Let’s make these next nearly 30 days the best and finish stronger in our pursuit of excellence!
Congratulations to Fairmont Senior’s Ashlyn Bennington, who won 2nd place in WV Climate Change Professional Development project, funded from the Appalachian Stewardship Foundation, “PSA Contest.” https://drive.google.com/file/d/14FHDnE04M2ts038a2d8P1KgoTjMWb2x-/view?usp=drivesdk
Celebrate Earth Day today, April 22, and every day!
Up, Up and Away to Nationals: East Fairmont Middle is sending two teams to 2022 American Rocketry Challenge National Finals Fly-off. EFMS has had at least one team qualify for the American Rocketry Challenge since 2018. As the world’s largest rocket contest with 5,000 students nationwide competing, it lets middle and high students design, build and launch model rockets by solving engineering problems.
Nearly 300 families visited the Mountaineer FoodBank, brought to the campus of North Marion High School today, by Connecting Link and Director Jone Webb today. Fresh vegetables, pork loin, pistachios, and more were provided by the Mountaineer FoodBank.
Calling all leaders! The American Legion Auxiliary WV Rhododendron Girls State promotes citizenship, leadership and patriotism. Learn more from Marion County's own Sidney Megna, the Governor of Girls State last year at https://5il.co/191iv. Also contact your school counselor.
If you were in and around the Barrackville area tonight, you saw part of a presentation of Barrackville Middle Student Gabe Mileto’s project for his local 4-H Club on HealthNet.
Just as Popular to Young and Old: The Easter Bunny hopped on over to East Fairmont High during lunch yesterday to wish students a good spring break. Marion County Schools wishes all students a Happy Spring Break, April 14-22. Students return on April 25, 2022.
Inspiring Budding Artists to Continue to Grow: Fairmont Senior High School Madrigal Chamber Singers, under the direction of Mr. DeVito, visited Jayenne Elementary School this week to share their music with the students and encourage participation in the Fine Arts. It was so nice to finally fill our "Home Among the Hills" with music again! @FSHSMadrigals
Student Learning and Teachers’ Best Practices on Display: Take one stroll down the halls of FSHS and see evidence! Romeo & Juliet Tweets and Quilt of country quilt squares from Teacher Ms. Amanda Johnson's classes. Hexagonal thinking analysis of various short plays from AP Literature Teacher Ms. Fisher’s classes, Black Out Poetry and Lit Term Analysis from Romeo & Juliet of Teacher Ms. Ciarolla-Crosby, and Poetry March Madness from Teacher Ms. Zuchowski's English 12. They’re hopping!
Mrs. Richard's second grade classroom wanted to help the community, so they had a Blessing box built by volunteers in our school/community and then filled it! What a great project to help others, all inspired and completed by our White Hall second grade students.
Increasing Reading Comprehension through Application Interwoven with Art: Students at FSHS completed Body Biographies from English Teacher Ms. Marissa Pulice Meadow's 10th grade class, which recently read the novel Scythe.
Teachers Collaborating for Student Growth and Real-world Understanding: Fairmont Senior High’s after-school "The Book Was Better Book Club" completed a scavenger hunt that Business Teacher Ms. Kiser and English Chair Ms. Fisher set up for the book The Inheritance Games.
