An excellent opportunity for a great meal, and a chance to give back this Thanksgiving season
Makeup and retake day for school pictures is Wednesday, November 19th.
Middle school girls basketball practice will be Monday, Nov. 17th from 6-7:30 with a mandatory parent meeting to follow at 7:30.
Practice from Tuesday, Nov. 17 through Friday, Nov. 21 will be from 6:00-7:30
Kindergarten has been learning about community helpers this week, and Sheriff Scott Spiker visited today to talk with them about his responsibilities and how he helps keep our community safe.
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8th grade wreath and cross orders are due tomorrow, Friday, November 14th. Please give order forms and payment to Mrs. McKeever. No late orders can be accepted.
Reminder: Tonight, you're invited to our K-5 County Literacy Family Night. This free, family-friendly activity will be fun for students and parents, and a great opportunity to enrich their literacy engagement at home. Older siblings are welcome to attend and participate, but note that all activities are gauged for grades K-5. Hope to see you there. (you can attend even if you didn't previously RSVP)
Congratulations to our Bulldog Elite students for the first 9 weeks. These students earned a 3.8 GPA or higher for all their classes.
Academic Boosters will meet tonight at 6:00pm in the cafeteria. All are welcome to attend.
We want to thank clients at Stellar Support Services who dropped by to give some homemade treats to our veterans on staff: Mrs. Vicki, Mr. Larry, and Mr. Scott!
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Today, and every day, we want to thank our veterans for answering the call of duty. Thank you for your sacrifice and service to our communities and nation. Happy Veterans Day!
Reminder: You're invited to our K-5 County Literacy Family Night. This free, family-friendly activity will be fun for students and parents, and a great opportunity to enrich their literacy engagement at home. Please RSVP (Link Below). Older siblings are welcome to attend and participate, but note that all activities are gauged for grades K-5. Hope to see you there.
https://prestoncs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0riJiazv840krQy
No School Tomorrow - Just a reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, November 11th, there is no school as we take the day to honor our nation's veterans.
Bruceton Bus Run Updates - “B” Run schedules are posted on the BOE website for the Bruceton area (https://5il.co/3n5y6). This action is in response to having to close runs in this area due to not having available substitute drivers. If a substitute driver cannot be secured, select drivers , upon completion of their normal runs, will perform a second run. The times on the “B” runs are an approximate estimation and could vary.
Reminder for Bruceton School - Bruceton Planned Power Outage - Today, there is still scheduled a planned power outage that will affect the Bruceton School at 1:00 PM. Bruceton School will be operating on a 2 Hour Early Dismissal. This will not affect high school dismissal. Bruceton School will be dismissed two hours early today.
Bruceton School's annual Veterans program is tomorrow, Monday, November 10th at 9:00am in the gym. We will be having a brunch for Veterans beginning at 8:00am in the cafeteria. Due to space limitations from the fire marshal in the gym and cafeteria, we can only accommodate veterans and their spouses. Thank you to Academic Boosters for providing the breakfast. We hope to see all our area veterans!
There’s no way around it: combined with a strong work ethic, students with strong science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics skills are finding success post graduation. PCS celebrates National STEAM Day, and we look forward to the many lessons, activities, and events our schools bring to our students in those areas throughout the year.
Bruceton School's annual Veterans program is Monday, November 10th at 9:00am in the gym. We will be having a brunch for Veterans beginning at 8:00am in the cafeteria. Due to space limitations from the fire marshal in the gym and cafeteria, we can only accommodate veterans and their spouses. Thank you to Academic Boosters for providing the breakfast. We hope to see all our area veterans!
Middle school boys basketball tryouts are scheduled to begin on Monday, November 10th from 3:00 - 4:30pm. Due to the planned power outage for Bruceton that day, tryouts will be held at Chestnut Ridge Church gym in Cheat Lake. The address is: 2223 Cheat Road, Morgantown, WV 26508. If, the planned power outage is cancelled, tryouts may return to the Bruceton School gym and notice will be provided to parents through automated text messaging in advance. For more information, contact Coach Justin Lemley at lemleyjustin@yahoo.com
2nd graders made a cooperative puzzle to honor our area veterans!
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December Menus and Survey Responses:
With the possibility of inclement weather, this is subject to change or move around days. We always prioritize the holiday meal to ensure all students receive it, so could be moved if expecting bad weather.
Surveys - 419 Total Participants (3600 enrolled students)
Menu changes and sustains were taken into account in the creation of Decembers' menus. Portions and types of offerings are subject to USDA National School Lunch and Breakfast guidelines. These are monitored by the Child Nutrition Director and the WVDE Office of Child Nutrition. While all students eat for free, the reimbursable meal funding that we get from the federal government covers but a portion of our costs, so budget also goes into account in meal selection, as well as the number of cooks available at each site. We are also working with our distributor and Group Purchasing Organization to discuss with manufacturers that the quality has gone down on some products previously used. Responses so far have been companies are combatting inflation to keep costs down, but we can search for alternative items if these don't improve. We are working to incorporate more home-cooked, or home-cooked-like options when our staffing permits it. PCS goal is to stay within budget and state formula. Many other districts offering more "from scratch" options have 1.5-2 additional cooks per building, coming at a cost of roughly an additional $800k per year. Another survey will go out in the spring, but in the meantime, questions, comments and concerns can be emailed to jhough@k12.wv.us
With the possibility of inclement weather, this is subject to change or move around days. We always prioritize the holiday meal to ensure all students receive it, so could be moved if expecting bad weather.
Surveys - 419 Total Participants (3600 enrolled students)
Menu changes and sustains were taken into account in the creation of Decembers' menus. Portions and types of offerings are subject to USDA National School Lunch and Breakfast guidelines. These are monitored by the Child Nutrition Director and the WVDE Office of Child Nutrition. While all students eat for free, the reimbursable meal funding that we get from the federal government covers but a portion of our costs, so budget also goes into account in meal selection, as well as the number of cooks available at each site. We are also working with our distributor and Group Purchasing Organization to discuss with manufacturers that the quality has gone down on some products previously used. Responses so far have been companies are combatting inflation to keep costs down, but we can search for alternative items if these don't improve. We are working to incorporate more home-cooked, or home-cooked-like options when our staffing permits it. PCS goal is to stay within budget and state formula. Many other districts offering more "from scratch" options have 1.5-2 additional cooks per building, coming at a cost of roughly an additional $800k per year. Another survey will go out in the spring, but in the meantime, questions, comments and concerns can be emailed to jhough@k12.wv.us
