We may have lost the game, but we won in the fun department today! We will be back next year! ❤️🖤💛💙 Thank you to our Bearcat Hosts & our students for their great behavior!
Bus Announcement: Bus # 73 will not run today, Friday, Feb. 23rd. Middle School and High School students who normally ride that bus will be transported home on Bus # 24 or #25. Flemington students from that bus will be transported by Bus #79. bus
It's almost time for our 8th graders to become Bearcats! ❤️🖤💙💛
Taylor County Schools students are asked to wear red, white, and blue tomorrow (Feb. 21) to display their support to Liberty High School faculty, staff, and students in this difficult time. The staff and students of Liberty High School are in our thoughts for comfort and support in this time of need.
TCMS Knights would like to extend our warm support and sincerest condolences to the school families of the Liberty Mountaineers and the RCB Flying Eagles as they try to navigate these difficult times.
The Taylor County Board of Education is currently developing options for the 2024-25 school calendar. Options being considered include a week long spring break OR two long weekend breaks during the spring months. Also under consideration is a possible shift in Grafton High School graduation dates due to timing of other breaks and requirements set forth by the WVDE.
A public hearing is scheduled for February 27, 2024, at 5:30 at the Taylor County Board of Education to discuss the school calendar options as well as the Non-Traditional Day Plan (NTID).
If you have concerns or questions, please plan to attend or email Jenny McCarthy-jmccarthy@k12.wv.us for calendar concerns/questions
OR Helen Roberts-hjroberts@k12.wv.us for NTID plan concerns/questions.
TCMS Track & Field
Mandatory Parent Meeting
Date: Monday, February 26th, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM
Where: Grafton High School Cafeteria (use main entrance)
***2023-2024 Physical dated after May 2023 will be required***
Wear your favorite hat for $1.00 on Tuesday, February 20th. We are joining with Taylor County 4-H Teen Leaders to raise money for the Taylor County Humane Society.
The game has been reschedule to this coming Friday, February 23rd.
It will be a blackout so wear your favorite black Knight gear.
We will use the current permission slip already signed.
Go Knight!
Check out the link below for more engaging fluency activities to try with your child.
https://youtu.be/4CFJJPWpTe0?si=seQ2pwt2LE07UJQ2
UPDATED SCHOOL CLOSURE ANNOUNCEMENT: Tomorrow, Friday, Feb 16th, 2024 will now be a County Wide School Closure Day. Students and Staff will not report. Students are not required to complete any instruction or assignments. Taylor County Schools will not be utilizing a NTI Day as previously announced. This change is due to guidelines set forth by the WV Department of Education.
Friday, February 16, 2024 will be Non-Traditional Instruction Day for all Taylor County Schools as a result of result of unforeseen staff shortages throughout the school district. This is NTI Day #1 for students. Students will learn from home and staff will be available for support from 10:00am-3:00pm.
Our fifth and six grade students demonstrate their knowledge of the elements of art with this stunning display. Excellent work!
It's that time of year for the TCMS Library! Our Scholastic Book Fair will be held from March 18 - March 22. We will have our "Shop as a Family Night" on Tuesday, March 19th where we will leave the book fair doors open until 5:30 P.M. so that friends and family can shop together. So mark your calendars and keep your eyes open for updates!
Popcorn Wednesdays will be returning just in time for Valentine's Day.
1.00 per bag. 🍿
"Black out" this Friday for our faculty game vs GHS. We encourage everyone to wear black as we cheer on the middle school staff.
Go Knights!
February 11, 2024
Parents/Guardians,
I want to begin this message with an appeal for patience as we attempt to continue to review and find solutions to what continues to frustrate many, traffic flow during parent pick-up procedures at our Taylor County Middle School. I am convinced that with the cooperation of all involved, what may currently seem an impossible situation can become a process of routine and smooth transition from school to home, etc. However, for us to get there, as I mentioned above, it will take patience and cooperation from everyone. (Indeed, Friday was an interesting and unanticipated day of confusion and frustration for a lot of us.)
As a start toward that improved status, here’s a few bits of information and reminders that will hopefully help clarify:
• Historically, when most schools were constructed, each included only a limited parking area, as the majority of students have taken advantage of bus transportation and, when living near enough to do so, some even walked to and from school. Parking was typically used for faculty and staff and may have offered very few spots for the occasional need to stop by and retrieve a child who had a doctor/dental appointment, etc., during the school day.
• That has changed over the last several years as students and families have increased their respective after-school activities that occur elsewhere.
• We’re experiencing increasing numbers of parents/guardians who are arriving earlier and earlier, prior to our school dismissal bell, and this is creating congestion and long lines that reach beyond our school campus properties and along public roads that adjoin, prompting neighboring residents to complain about access to/from their homes along those public roads.
• In addition, the recent reported threat of being ticketed for such an infraction for improper parking has apparently been introduced, although, please know that the school or school system in general system has no authority over such a decision, nor are we in favor of having that occur.
Here's what is occurring and what I am recommending:
• We are currently working on increasing the size of the gravel lot below the rear parking area of the TCMS campus. The intent is that the eventual available space should be approximately twice the width and three times the length of the current area. Far more parking and “staging” (aka waiting) area for such times as waiting for our dismissal bell and parent pick-up procedure to begin.
• In the meantime, please consider either using that current lower gravel space as a “staging area” until the dismissal bell or consider delaying your arrival to the school such that lines are not occurring on Spring Hills Road, a public roadway where parking is not permitted. (I understand that everyone wishes to be first, however, this simply isn’t helpful.)
• Likewise, we are asking that you also please refrain from pulling onto the grass areas along our school property or along either side of the roadway, as that only presents a safety issue for our children, (our most important concern), as well as contributes to congestion that we are trying to eliminate.
• We are also working on introducing a systematic identification system for anyone planning to pick up a student that we have learned can be an efficient means for keeping traffic flow going, information about which will be issued for your awareness, asap.
Thanks, in advance, for your cooperation as we collectively try to keep our children safe.
When students are able to read fluently, then there is not the need to devote as much energy on decoding the words. As a result, more focus can be placed on comprehending or understanding the material read.
Check out the link below with engaging fluency activities to try with your child.
21 Reading Fluency Activities Your Students Will Love! (natalielynnkindergarten.com)
Reminder: No School for Students on Monday, February 12, 2024. This is a professional learning day for staff.
TCMS has the best school counselors around! We are lucky & blessed to celebrate Mrs. Mahon & Mrs. K this week! Happy Counselor Appreciation Week to all the counselors who service our Taylor County Students! ❤️🖤
