It was great seeing everyone tonight at Back to School Bash! Thanks to everyone who helped put on the event. We had over 600 people attend! It's going to be a great 2023-2024 school year! #SchoolOfChampions
Preston County Schools opens Monday, August 21 with grades 5, 8, 11, & 12 attending school, while Rowlesburg welcomes back grades 6, 7, & 8 on Monday. This same group of students attends their second day on Thursday, August 24 (the staggered start schedule is available online).
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Parents, please remember your children will need clean, non-marking PE shoes (tennis shoes) that will stay in their classroom (elementary) or locker (middle school) and only be worn in PE. If you have a financial need, please let your child's homeroom teacher know and we will try to assist you.
We hope to see you at tonight's Back to School Bash from 5-7. Concessions will be available for purchase to support the 8th grade class. Middle school students can pick up their class schedules at the information table in the breezeway. Parents of students in grades 5-8 can also pick up their parent Schoology access codes, if they need them, from the information table in the breezeway as well. If you already have a parent access code for Schoology, it will remain the same for this school year and you won't need a new one.
Preston County Schools Student Support Services encourages families to be safe online. Know what apps your students are using and be cautious.
SNAPCHAT: Does your child use Snapchat? It's a popular app with teenagers used for creating multimedia messages referred to as "snaps" that consist of a photo or a short video, and can be edited to include filters and effects, text captions, and drawings. While the premise behind the app seems innocent, it can lead to problems if used inappropriately. With school about to start, be sure you are up to speed on all that snapshot offers (good and bad).
Snapchat offers extra protections for 13-to-17-year-olds, including requiring teens to be mutually connected or in their respective phone contacts before they can start communicating.
Please follow the links below to learn more about tools parents can access to learn more about Snapchat safety:
➡️Snap has a set of in-app parental tools called Family Center. The goal of these tools is to help parents get insight into how their teens are using Snapchat, including who they are communicating with and what public content they are viewing. https://values.snap.com/safety/family-center
➡️Easily report concerning accounts to Snap’s 24/7 Trust and Safety team. You can learn more here: https://values.snap.com/safety/safety-reporting
➡️Here is a list of important actions to help protect your teens on Snapchat.
❗️FAMILY AND FRIENDS ONLY: Tell your teen to only invite and accept Friends on Snapchat if they are friends in real life or family members. Encourage them to check their Friends List regularly to make sure they still want to be in touch with each friend.
❗️LOCATION AND PRIVACY SETTINGS: Talk to your teen about their location and privacy settings. At Snapchat, privacy settings are turned on by default, so people can only see the things you want to share, for as long as you want to share them.
❗️IN-APP REPORTING: Make sure your teen knows how to use our in-app reporting tools and that we don’t tell Snapchatters who reported them. These reports go directly to our 24/7 Trust and Safety team to investigate and take appropriate action. We also offer reporting tools on our website for those who don’t use Snapchat – which any parent can easily use.
❗️THINK BEFORE YOU SEND: Remind your teen that, as with sharing anything online, it’s important to be really careful about sending anyone – even a partner or close friend – personal or sensitive images and information. Snaps and Chats may delete by default, but there are ways to capture images from a phone or other device without a person’s consent. This is true despite Snapchat sending a notification in some instances when a screenshot is taken.
❗️JOIN FAMILY CENTER: Make sure you and your teen are signed up for Snapchat’s Family Center.
With school starting soon, we'd like to hear your stories about a favorite teacher you had. Teachers everywhere love hearing how their former students are doing!
With school gearing up to start, we want to remind our parents about drop-off and pick-up procedures. You can find a diagram at this link: https://5il.co/1wmnk
Also, don't forget about Kindergarten Parent Orientation and 6th Grade Academy this Thursday from 5-7 and Back-to-School Bash this Friday from 5-7.
Our classrooms are gearing up to welcome back kids! Can't wait to see everyone!
Elementary class lists are posted by the main office entrance. 6th grade students who attend 6th Grade Academy will receive theirs at the event. 7th and 8th grade students who attend Back to School Bash can receive theirs there. Pre-K lists should be finalized later this week.
Preston County Schools will host Open House/Back to School Nights between August 17 and August 24 (dates and times vary by schools). Please visit your school's website or Preston County Schools website News or Events sections for specific school details.
With the start of school a week away, we wanted to share our parent drop-off and pick-up diagram and procedures.
Today was orientation for new staff members. Our new staff was able to have lunch with some of our existing staff who are helping them settle in. A huge thank you to 4Daughters Roofing and Cupcake Me Home for providing lunch for everyone!
This message is for students/families in the Bruceton area. Due to increased enrollment, the Bruceton bus run that was scheduled to be cut will be reinstated. The new Bruceton bus schedules will be posted on the BOE website today by 3 pm at https://5il.co/w5vz.
The 2023 - 2024 Evening Shuttle Bus Schedule is now posted online at https://5il.co/xi56. Shuttle bus service begins Wednesday, August 16th.
The final coats of wax are drying today on our elementary sensory hallway! Can't wait to see the kids try them all out!
The final coats of wax are drying today on our elementary sensory hallway! Can't wait to see the kids try them all out!
The gym floor has been re-sealed and is drying. It looks like a giant mirror with the shine!
Preston County Schools in-county transfer (for grades K - 8) emails were distributed today, Thursday, August 10. Please check your email. Questions? Contact Mrs. Laura Shaffer, laura.shaffer@k12.wv.us or call 304-329-0580 ext. 236
A lot of people have been asking us about class lists. We wanted to share that we've been working to get them finalized the last couple of weeks. We have a number of kids transferring from out-of-county into Bruceton. It's been a challenge to get records from those schools and we don't want to post class lists until we get those kids into our system. We don't want to post class lists and then have to go back and make changes due to class size caps, class makeup, etc. Our goal is to have them ready by this Friday, next Monday at the latest. Thank you for your patience and understanding.