East Fairmont Middle School

Parents and students: If your child is quarantined and checking google classroom for assignments, please check the classwork tab in google classroom. It seems many students just check the stream and what comes up when you first get in. That only shows the items that are marked as "assignments" in google classroom. It doesn't show everything when they first sign in. They need to click the classwork tab at the top, as well as look at the stream.

7th and 8th grade art students at East Fairmont Middle created "lockers" as a get to know me activity in their art class. Parts of the locker were dedicated to things such as the student's name, their favorite class, and interests. The inside of the locker was dedicated to a place they would like to be.

East Fairmont Middle School is getting the opportunity to allow all students STEAM experiences through the simulated workplace experiences provided by Mrs. Margie Suder. Our sixth graders are currently spending four half days working with Ms. Suder to build a replica of the brain that allows them to collect data that simulates what would happen to the human brain when an individual would receive some kind of blow to the head. Groups are then working to develop "helmets" for their brain that should help lessen the effects. Students are then conducting experiments to see how successful their creation was. Each grade level will participate in a different simulated program during the first quarter of the school year this year.

Do it for Babydog: Round 2: Online registration is open for the sweepstakes. Weekly, 5 vaccinated WV students, 12-25, win a full 4-year scholarship – including room and board, tuition, and books – to any public college or university in WV. All 18 older who have had at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine can register for an opportunity to win additional prizes, including sports cars, free gas for 10 years, a dream wedding, season ticket packages to WVU and Marshall games, more!

MCS Child Nutrition Office has received word that its application as a countywide Community Eligibility Program has been approved for the 2021-22 school year. All students in MCS have the opportunity to eat breakfast and lunch at school at no cost through CEP. The CEP was enacted as a result of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act and provides universal meal service to children in high-poverty areas. What does this mean for students? If benefits become available again this year through the Pandemic EBT, ALL MCS families now qualify for these benefits. Marion County is an equal opportunity provider.

Like businesses across the nation, the MCS Child Nutrition Dept. has been experiencing some outs and shortages from our suppliers. MCS will continue to substitute products as possible from our suppliers. If we have to change menus, we work diligently to try to give plenty of notice to students and families. Updates are sent through your child’s school as necessary. We appreciate your patience, grace, and understanding.

Thursday's lunch at East Fairmont Middle will be a bag lunch which will contain a wow butter and jelly sandwich.

Help the WV DHHR and WVU Health Affairs gather data about Marion County. The Mountain State Assessment of Trends in Community Health (MATCH) is voluntary, confidential, and non-identifiable. See WVMATCHsurvey.org.

Tomorrow is picture day at East Fairmont Middle. These pictures will also be the ones used for the yearbook so encourage your child to look their best!

Please see the message in the flyer below!

Celebrate Freedom Week educates students about the sacrifices made for freedom in the founding of this country and the values on which this country was founded (WV State Code §18-2-9 ). In social studies classrooms, students will be learning of the Declaration of Independence, Emancipation Proclamation, and Constitution of the United States with an emphasis on the Bill of Rights. This includes the environments and the study of historical documents that inspired the founding fathers for the purposes of safeguarding our Constitutional republic.

East Fairmont Middle is having to change their menus for the next several school days. Tomorrow will consist of bag lunches which include a pepperoni roll. Menu updates for next week will be sent as soon as they are available. We apologize for any inconvenience.

MCS will gather information about the levels of proficiency in English Language Arts and Math for grades 1 to 10 today through Sept. 17. This beginning of the year benchmark will help teachers plan instruction and interventions for the coming school year to recover instruction.

MCS provides insurance for our Dell 3100 Chromebooks . The enrollment window is open through October 4th at https://gpo.worthavegroup.com/gpo/marioncounty. Kindergarten students will get packets at their school.

Information regarding Chromebook Insurance! Marion County Schools is again utilizing Worth Ave Group to provide insurance for our Dell 3100 Chromebooks . The enrollment window for this school year with Worth Ave group has been opened through October 4th and is the same Worth Ave./Marion County Schools URL that was listed in last year's packet https://gpo.worthavegroup.com/gpo/marioncounty

Information regarding an upcoming basketball camp hosted by Fairmont State University....

Sadly, East Fairmont Middle had to cancel our in person Open House. Many of our teachers and staff members have recorded greetings or shared short videos of their classrooms. We also have a powerpoint that was developed by our PTO president to share some information regardng PTO. We have created a webpage with links to all of these things. Please take a few minutes to check out our Virtual Open House Webpage. https://www.marionboe.com/o/east-fairmont-ms/page/virtual-open-house

As we enter the months of inclement weather, MCS is releasing information so our families may proactively plan for any weather-related interruptions that may occur. Find out more: https://5il.co/y5es.

Due to rising numbers in COVID cases in our area as well as the request to limit visitors to our building, we have decided to move our Open House on Tuesday, August 31st to a virtual platform. We will release the link for the Open House on the 31st. Thank you for your understanding and as always if you have questions please do not hesitate to reach out to us. Thanks!

We have seen some parents question what time lunches are so we are posting the bell schedule for those that are interested.