Preston County Schools will operate on a 2-hour delay for today, Tuesday, November 28th. Maintenance, mechanics, & custodians report on a regular schedule, & all other students & staff will report on a 2-hour delay.
The Preston Squires Middle School Wrestling Team will have its first practice on November 6, 2023, at Preston High School right after school. All Preston County Middle School Students Grades 6-8 are welcome to participate. Transportation has been coordinated from all Preston County Middle Schools to Preston High for student athletes who wish to participate. The bus schedule will be posted on the Squires Wrestling Facebook Page or contact your school administrator. If you have any questions, please reach out to Coach Jennings at squireswrestling21@gmail.com or on our Facebook Page.
Bus Schedule: Aurora School: 56; TAEP: 77-16; Central Preston: 66-15; Bruceton Middle: 37-22; South Preston: 5-19; Rowlesburg: 72-16; and West Preston: 69-18.
Hello Preston County Families!
We have already made it through quarter 1! Your students (all grade levels) should receive their first report cards this week.
Students in grades K-4 are also receiving information about a survey for families. Your opinions are valuable to us! Please take a few minutes to provide feedback about K-4 report cards. Guardians of K-4 students can complete the form on paper or click the link below to complete it digitally. The survey will be open until November 8. Thank you for your help!
To complete the digital form go to https://forms.office.com/r/KKbVb5fmLY
Good evening. This is a reminder there is no school for students tomorrow, Friday, October 27th as it is a teacher training day. Thank you.
Preston County Schools (PCS) would like to thank the following generous donors for contributing prizes to the positive testing incentive program: Affordable Signs Unlimited (Reedsville), Cupcake Me Home Bakery & Cafe (Bruceton Mills), Melanie's Family Restaurant (Aurora), TigerFly Soap Co (Cranesville), Paint Your Heart Out (Kelli Emfinger of Volga, WV), and Old School Pizzeria (Reedsville). If your business is interested in showing support and investing in the education of Preston County students, please contact Lryan@k12.wv.us (Lynnette Ryan, County Testing Coordinator). We love our local small businesses! Thank you!
Have you checked out the latest news stories at prestoncountyschools.com (main page under News)? Book mark the website and check back often for news from Preston County Schools or visit us on social media - Facebook & X (Twitter) and coming soon - Instagram.
The Preston County Schools Levy Committee is seeking feedback for a possible levy proposal in May 2024. The committee would appreciate community input & response on the following survey https://forms.office.com/r/YuQdsZg8Db to help guide development of the potential levy call.
October9-13 is National School Lunch Week; the theme is "Level Up with School Lunch." Featured items will include: Minecraft Meatball Sub, FryGuy Fries, Guaco Walking Taco, Pac-Man Pizza, Donkey Kong Bananas, Yeti in my Spaghetti, Kirby Cheeseburger, and Princess Peach.
To help ensure the national alert and warning system is ready to provide timely, accurate information during the next disaster, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will conduct a nationwide test at approximately 2:20 PM on Wednesday, October 4. This 1-minute test alert sent to TVs, radios and smartphones is similar to the weekly or monthly testing that happens on a local and regional level. The message that appears on phones will read: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” No action is required by the public. This alert is simply a test of a robust readiness system should a nationwide alert be necessary in the future. All Preston County Schools have been advised of this test and are notifying students and staff in advance of the test this afternoon.
Good afternoon Preston County. This is a reminder that all Preston County Schools will be dismissed two hours early today, Thursday, September 28th and closed tomorrow, Friday, September 29th so that students and staff may take part in the Buckwheat Festival activities. We will see everyone back in school on Monday, October 2nd. Have a wonderful, fun-filled festival weekend.
Preston County Schools would like to thank and recognize all of our school service employees in honor of WV School Service Personnel Day (9/22/23)!!!
Our service employees are vital to the operation of our schools and as I stated in my opening day speech, I wish to thank our bus drivers who provide a smiling face and needed transportation for our students to and from school, our mechanics who work to ensure that our buses are safe for travel, our cooks who prepare nutritious breakfasts and lunches that are sometimes the only meals some of our student see each day, our aides who sometimes ride our buses to ensure safe travels by our students and who provide needed classroom help to our students and our teachers, our secretaries who help to provide for the smooth and efficient operation of our schools, and our custodians and maintenance workers who help to provide a clean environment in our schools and make needed repairs within our buildings and grounds.
Thanks again to all of our service personnel employees!!!!
Preston County Schools is pleased to inform you that students (currently in grades 4 - 9 and grade 12) who took the West Virginia General Summative Assessment or the SAT School Day Assessment in the spring of 2023 have received an email in their K12 student email account containing a link to an individual student video score report. Please have your student check his or her student email account for the link. Simply click on the link and enter your student’s date of birth to access the video score report customized specifically for your student and be sure to check out the links to resources that are also provided.
Additionally, students will bring home the West Virginia General Summative Assessment or SAT School Day Assessment paper copy of the report today, Friday, September 8th. This is the same information that is accessible online in the video report and the new parent portal.
In addition, your student will also receive a second email with a link to the new West Virginia Department of Education Assessment Family Portal. Included with the link is a unique parent access code for your student as well as directions for accessing the family portal.
If you have any difficulty accessing the online report or do not receive your paper copy, please contact your student’s school for assistance. The Preston County Schools website also has additional resources available regarding the assessments. You will find this information at prestoncountyschools.com > Menu > Parent/Student > Assessment.
And finally, Preston County Schools wants to thank all our students and teachers for their hard work on the state assessments this past spring!
Preston County Schools will be hosting a meeting for individuals interested in assisting with the promotion of an excess levy to be possibly run in May of 2024. The meeting is scheduled on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 6:00 PM at the Preston County BOE offices. All interested citizens may attend. Please contact Mr. Brad Martin with any questions at (304) 329-0580 ext. 225.
Students in PreK and Kindergarten Group 1 will begin school Monday, August 28. If you need information on your child's group, please contact your school. All Preston County students in grades 1 - 12 will begin their regular, daily schedule on Monday, August 28.
All Preston County School students in grades 1 - 12 will attend school tomorrow, Thursday, August 24. There will be no school on Friday, August 25. PreK and K will start next week. Reminders calls will go out the evening before.
Preston County Schools welcomes back grades 1, 3, 6, & 9 tomorrow, Wednesday, August 23. There will no students at Rowlesburg. This group of students will have their 2nd day on Thursday, August 24. The staggered start schedule is available online.
Preston County Schools welcomes back grades 2nd,4th, 7th, and 10th; while Rowlesburg welcomes back Kindergarten through 5th on Tuesday, August 22nd. This same group of students attends their second day on Thursday, August 24 (the staggered start schedule is available online).
Please complete the 2023 - 2024 school year student information form at https://forms.office.com/r/qJcCNbiPNz
This form contains critical information the school needs to educate your child safely and efficiently.
Thank you.
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).
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.
