Good evening, Eagles. A few important announcements:
1. Tomorrow is our school-wide evacuation drill at approximately 1:30 pm. This drill will change our dismissal and parent pick up procedures for tomorrow only. Detailed information will be posted on our website under Live Feed for parents to refer back to. School dismissal will occur at the usual time, but parent pick up will be located at the Terra Alta Youth Center located at 102 4th Street. All students who are parent pick up will be escorted (walked) to the Youth Center where they will be picked up by parents. All students who ride a bus will ride their bus home as usual. Please be aware route 7 may be congested during our drill as the police direct traffic to keep our students safe. This may also impact parent pick up. Your student's safety is our top priority, so your patience is appreciated tomorrow as we work through the logistics of the drill. Please remember to alert the office tomorrow by 1 pm of any changes to parent pick up. If you must pick up your student early you must do so by 1 pm tomorrow or you will have to wait and pick up the student at the Terra Alta Youth Center. Tomorrow's high temperatures is only expected to be in the mid-40s. Please make sure your students wear coats to school as the evacuation drill will require some time spent walking outside. We also recommend proper walking footwear.
2. Please join us tomorrow in celebrating diabetes awareness. We're asking students and staff to wear royal blue and/or orange as we honor our diabetic student, Booker Price.
3. Another reminder too that tomorrow's lunch will be a pepperoni or buffalo chicken pocket sandwich.
4. And finally, tomorrow, Wednesday, is our last day of school before Easter Break. Students return to school on Tuesday, April 22nd.
Have a wonderful spring break and a Happy Easter!
SCHOOL WIDE DRILL INFO for APRIL 16th. Wednesday, April 16, 2025, is our school-wide evacuation drill at approximately 1:30 pm. This drill will change our dismissal and parent pick up procedures for tomorrow only. School dismissal will occur at the usual time, but parent pick up will be located at the Terra Alta Youth Center located at 102 4th Street. All students who are parent pick up will be escorted (walked) to the Youth Center where they will be picked up by parents. All students who ride a bus will ride their bus home as usual. Please be aware route 7 may be congested during our drill as the police direct traffic to keep our students safe. This may also impact parent pick up. Your student's safety is our top priority, so your patience is appreciated tomorrow as we work through the logistics of the drill. Please remember to alert the office tomorrow by 1 pm of any changes to parent pick up. If you must pick up your student early you must do so by 1 pm tomorrow or you will have to wait and pick up the student at the Terra Alta Youth Center. The high temperatures for 4/16/25 are only expected to be in the mid-40s. We highly encourage all students to wear warm coats and appropriate walking footwear as the drill requires some outside walking to evacuation locations.
Menu changes this week at TAEP. Today, Tuesday, we will have our Easter dinner with ham, scalloped potato green beans, a cookie and, a roll. Wednesday we will have the pepperoni or buffalo chicken sandwich.
Good evening 8th grade families! Please send us a baby picture of your 8th grade student to be included in a slideshow for 8th grade recognition! You can email your picture to jboni@k12.wv.us or send in an original with your student to be scanned. All pictures must be turned in by April 30th. Thank you!
Wednesday we are celebrating Diabetes Awareness at TAEP. We're encouraging students and staff to wear royal blue and/or orange to school that day. We hope you will join us!
Good evening, Eagles. Just a reminder that Monday is spring portrait day. Also, yearbooks must be pre-ordered and the deadline is April 24th. The yearbook is sponsored by PTO who is also selling 1/2 page ads for 8th grade students. Ads are $10. There are a lot of important dates coming up between now and the end of the year. Make sure to check our events listing on our school webpage or the calendar snapshot we are sharing out on social media and our website live feed. The calendar runs the last week of April through the first week of June. We will have a school-wide evacuation drill on Wednesday, April 16th. We will send out more information and reminders the first of the week. Have a wonderful weekend!
This is a busy time of the year, so TAEP is providing a calendar ranging from the last week of April through the last week of school in June. We also keep our events listing on our school website up-to-date.
Final round of TAEP career day photos
More photos from yesterday's TAEP field day.
Just a reminder you can join our PTO meeting virtually tonight at 6 pm at https://tinyurl.com/EaglesPTO
May Menus:
You will notice multiple cook's choice days, which will also be each day in June, so no menus will go out for June as all are cook's choice. Cook's choice are used to either be efficient with inventory to limit on waste, or to try new items, or bring back old favorites. You will also notice that there are two "pre-packaged" days. These shelf stable meals will be tested by students, with a survey for students to follow. In the future, these will be utilized for field trips, brain freeze days and emergencies when there may not be staffing. These meals DO meet USDA school lunch requirements. If utilized more in the coming years, on those days, schools will still also provide salad bars, or other supplemental items. As always, if any questions or concerns as it relates to school meals, please direct those to Justin Hough, Director of Child Nutrition and Wellness, at jhough@k12.wv.us.
Upcoming Important Dates relating to days off or early dismissals:
Good afternoon. The Terra Alta East Preston School PTO will meet Thursday, April 10th at 6 pm at the school. We will also have a virtual option available by logging on to https://tinyurl.com/EaglesPTO. We hope you will join us either in person or virtually.
Career day at TAEP photos post number 2
Today TAEP students were treated to Career Day. A special thank you to all of our volunteers and participants. The students really enjoyed the day! We will share multiple posts to include more photos.
At this time, internet and phone services are down at all district schools and central office. Frontier has advised that this is a wide-spread issue in WV and another state. We have not been provided with an eta on a restoration of service. We apologize for the inconvenience.
TAEP recognized our March students of the month for the trait perseverance. Not pictured Sophia S. and Kenzey W. Pictured: Drew F, Amarah B, Jaylin D, Zayden O, Ryder D, Briar R, Timothy H, Skylar V, Bristol R, Izzy H, Aiden S, Berlin F, and Maddie C.
Reminder: The Preston County Board of Education will receive sealed bids until 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 for mowing grass, trimming and weed eating all common areas at the following locations:
Schools: Aurora, Bruceton, Fellowsville, Kingwood Elementary, Preston High (to include the football field), Rowlesburg, South Preston, Terra Alta/East Preston, Central Preston Middle and West Preston
The service you are bidding will be on an as-needed basis, per mowing request. Mowing will be done only after communication with the Preston County Schools Maintenance Supervisor, Matt Murray, or his designee.
***Contractors must submit bids for all locations***
Please submit bids for the individual locations per mowing, trimming and weed eating, for a contact period of one year along with a valid WV Business License and proof of liability insurance in the amount of $1,000,000 with your bid to Preston County Schools, 731 Preston Drive, Kingwood, WV 26537. All work shall be in accordance with instructions provided by the Preston County Schools Maintenance Department (304-329-0580, ext. 3231).
The Preston County Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids and waive any informality in the bidding.
A parent survey went home with the most recent report cards. If you didn't receive it, the link is listed below, and we would ask that all parents take the time to fill this out. Also, the deadline to request a summer workbook is April 11th.
https://prestoncs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42fZw38dp2eR7vg
Good evening Eagles. Bible club for tomorrow is canceled. Thank you.