Bruceton School

Some of our kindergarten students got an early start eating buckwheat cakes last week. Thanks to Miss Hudson’s middle school students for helping out!

Superintendent, Steve Wotring's update after Board of Education meeting on Monday, 9/27/21 at 8:30PM https://youtu.be/mQMD4ZiSD60

WVGSA, WVASA and SAT Assessment Parent Reports from the Spring 2021 testing are being sent home with students in grades 3-9 and 12 today, Monday, September 27, 2021. Individual Student Interperative Guides can be found at Menu/Parent and Students/Assessments https://tinyurl.com/559bcpsp

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Important Dates Monday, Sept. 27th Resume In Person Instruction Thursday, Sept. 30th Full Day of School Friday, Oct. 1st No School - Buckwheat Festival Monday, Oct. 4th No School for Students Staff in Meetings

Thank you to everyone who purchased mums from the 5th grade. It’s always beautiful seeing them in the school yard while they’re waiting to be delivered

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP FOR MEAL DELIVERY, PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP AGAIN. YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE RECEIVING A SECOND DELIVERY. THIS SIGNUP IS ONLY FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO BE ADDED TO THE SECOND DELIVERY. We are taking orders for any temporary remote, homeschool, full-time virtual, homebound, or children ages 1-4 years old who live in Preston County. The shelf-stable boxes will be prepared and shipped directly to the child's home via UPS. Please complete this form to have a multiple-day shelf-stable meal box delivered to your door step free of charge. You will need to complete a SEPERATE form for EACH child in your household that qualifies. Only one request per child is permitted. The boxes will begin to ship Monday, September 20, and will arrive within the next several days. If you have any questions, please call 304.329.0580 ext. 234 or email at edoerr@k12.wv.us The deadline to signup is Sunday, September 19, 2021, at 10:00 PM. https://forms.office.com/r/JbwSPmc1xm

Meal boxes are beginning to arrive in Preston County. This picture is a sample of a high school student's box. This first box contains 4 breakfast and 4 lunch meals. The next box will have 5 of each. For those of you that missed the first sign up a new registration will be posted soon. Those of you who initially signed up will be automatically receiving the second box.

2020-2021 Yearbooks arrived and have been given to homeroom teachers. Students will receive them as soon as we return to in-person instruction. Orders for 8th graders or any other student that no longer attends Bruceton School can be picked up in the front office during normal school hours, 7:00 a.m -3:00 p.m. We have extra yearbooks available for purchase. If interested, the cost is $35. Checks should be made payable to Bruceton School.

As we shift to remote learning for the next few days, we want to remind students of expectations. The format of remote learning will be very similar to last year. Please don't hesitate to contact your teacher if you have any questions or need help.

We have been made aware of an issue getting onto TEAMS on the 1:1 K-2 iPads. The email address that prepopulates is incorrect, but it is an easy fix. Here is the video that expains what changes you need to make ONE TIME to get the issue corrected. https://youtu.be/0_yuZ6Ey8M0 If you have any questions you can contact your child's teacher or Darla Moyers via email at darla.moyers@k12.wv.us

2021-22 Preston County Meal Box Delivery (Sept. 14) We are taking orders for any temporary remote, homeschool, full-time virtual, homebound, or children ages 1-4 years old who live in Preston County. The shelf-stable boxes will be prepared and shipped directly to the child's home via FedEx. Please complete this form to have a multiple-day shelf-stable meal box delivered to your door step free of charge. You will need to complete a SEPERATE form for EACH child in your household that qualifies. The boxes will begin to ship Thursday, September 16, and will arrive over the next several days. If you have any questions please call 304.329.0580 ext. 234 or email at edoerr@k12.wv.us The deadline to sign up is September 14th at 10:00PM https://forms.office.com/r/AzghzQ3gvC

Volleyball practice for tonight (Monday, 9/13) is cancelled.

PCS will be closing schools and going to remote learning effective tomorrow September 14th. Students will return to school on Monday, September 27th. All sports and extra-curricular activities are cancelled. Teachers were notified late today and will spend Tuesday and Wednesday preparing for full remote learning which begins on Thursday, September 16th. Students may have paper assignments to complete or will have online assignments on Tuesday and Wednesday. Therefore, students should continue to login to Seesaw and Schoology to check for assignments. Students should continue lessons already assigned, practice reading and math skills on iReady (K-8) and Exact Path (9-12) and complete any other lessons assigned by their classroom teachers. Directions will follow on how to sign up for weekly meal boxes that will be delivered to your homes. Here is the link to Mr. Wotring's announcement https://youtu.be/c6GWceGvOlE

The next time you receive a text message from PCS it will come from 98900 and NOT 98901 and it will automatically send a CTIA compliant opt-in OR opt-out text with necessary disclaimers. So carefully read your next text message. (This message was not sent as a text.) If you are not receiving text messages yet it is because secretaries are in to process of changing phone numbers from the Online Information Form you filled out.

Bruceton School is currently experiencing a building-wide Internet outage. For students quarantining on remote learning, teachers will have lessons posted as soon as Internet is restored. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Bus #34 (Jason Cramer) in the Bruceton area will be running approximately 20 minutes late on his run this morning.

Tonight's home volleyball game (September 7) has been cancelled. Also the away volleyball game scheduled for Thursday (September 9) has been cancelled as well. We will let you know when they are rescheduled.

A bus announcement for this afternoon (Friday, Sept. 3): Bus 46 and bus 75-16 will be running late this evening for their elementary/middle school run.

Don't forget that School Picture Day is Tuesday, September 14th.