Tonight is the PCMS Band and Choir Concert! The choir concert begins at 6:00 p.m. with the band concert following. Donations for the PCMS band will be taken at the door.
Thursday, December 22 is an Early Dismissal.
7th graders practice percent of change with a "Then and Now" shopping activity.
8th Graders practice identifying functions in multiple representations. Practice makes perfect!
Pleasants County Deputies Reed and Morant presented drug awareness information to PCMS 7th & 8th grade health students.
Thank you to Pressed of St. Marys and Chris Metz for providing the staff at PCMS with coffee this morning!
Congratulations to the PCMS County Math Field Day Winners:
5th Grade:
1st: Hayden Parsons
2nd: Jax Carson
3rd: Erica Townsend
Alternate: Kendall Leithead
6th Grade:
1st: Dalton Barnhart
2nd: Raylan Higgins
3rd: Joey Blavos
Alternate: Hunter Haddox
7th Grade:
1st: Callie Bennett
2nd: Kyle Bullman
3rd: Cayden Metz
Alternate: Tyson McGrew
8th Grade:
1st: Logan Taylor
2nd: Olivia Holmes
3rd: Savana Burd
Alternate: Abby Metz
Thank you to the SMHS theater students and Mrs. Campano for inviting PCMS to the production "Did Someone Say Murder?"
Congratulations to the following students who competed in the Pleasants County Math Field Day December 9 from PCMS!
8th Grade:
Olivia Holmes
Anna Bennett
Bella Allen
Isaiah LaPlante
Abby Metz
Dru Binegar
Izzy Blake
Savana Burd
Conner Maston
Logan Taylor
7th Grade:
Callie Bennett
Kyle Bullman
Cayden Metz
William Blouir
Reagan Sturgeon
Ayden Powell
Rylee Renner
Jacob Asher
Tyson McGrew
6th Grade:
Ethan Pierce
Dalton Barnhart
Raylan Higgins
Elizabeth Gray
Brayden McGrew
Joey Blavos
Lauren Pritchett
Natalie Mossor
Bradley Westbrook
Trevor Haley
5th Grade:
Hayden Parsons
Jax Carson
Erica Townsend
Sunny Amos
Kendall Leithead
Colton Davis
Parker Eddy
Brooklyne Kent
Rayleigh Roberts
Griffin Bowie
Tomorrow is the last day for the PCMS Holiday Paper Goods Drive. Donations benefit Pleasants County Neighbor Network and The Gabriel Project.
Butter Braids will be delivered tomorrow (Thursday, December 15th) at 2:00 p.m. Parents/guardians may pick up orders between 2:00 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Please contact PCMS at (304)299-5275 with any questions or if you need to make other arrangements.
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The Boys and Girls Club will be closed the remainder of the week.
Ten PCMS Students were selected for the Marshall University Middle School Honor Band. Congratulations to Emma Wince, Gabby Lauderman, Olivia Holmes, Bella Allen, Carter Sole, Hope Bunner, Cory Yoho, Jacob Asher, Raeleigh Richards and Kasey Houser!
December 2 is National Special Education Day.
Congratulations to the Luminant Pleasants Power Plant Student of the Month for October, Logan Taylor!
Congratulations to the Luminant Pleasants Power Plant Student of the Month for September, Olivia Kimball!
Congratulations to the Luminant Pleasants Power Plant Student of the Month for August, Adeline Smith!
Dustin Bell, a STEAM and social studies teacher at Pleasants County Middle School, has earned West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Above and Beyond Award for October, which recognizes excellence and creativity of Mountain State teachers.
Bell was presented the award in front of the student body, Assistant Principal Tyrell Childers, Superintendent Mike Wells, and his wife Amanda Bell during an exhilarating pumpkin drop event organized by Bell himself. He received a monetary award and a signature Blenko Glass blue apple paperweight. The award is sponsored by the West Virginia State Treasurer's Office, presenter of the SMART529 college savings program in the Mountain State.
The pumpkin drop has been a tradition for Pleasants County Middle School for multiple years, led by Bell and two other STEAM teachers. Previously the pumpkins were dropped from the roof, and participation was limited to STEAM classes. However, in recent years, participation has opened to all students, and due to collaboration with Luminant, the experience has been amplified with a crane. Luminant representative Tim Ansell was helping with pumpkin clean up and stated that Luminant has been a partner in education for three years. They gladly help reserve the crane and donate snacks for the students.
The pumpkin drop is one example of many to support why Dustin Bell earned the Above and Beyond award for October. His lessons and activities are engaging, innovative, and fun for students. In Childers nomination for Bell, he listed lessons and projects that included woodworking, telegraphs, hot air balloons, and a Zombie Map. For example, to assess map skills, students are presented with a prompt that Zombies have taken over Pleasants County, and they are tasked with designing a new settlement using map skills they have learned in the classroom.
Bell also enjoys woodworking and incorporated this in his STEAM classes by teaching students the basics of working with wood and basic tools. Students are given choices of plans created by Bell, including a birdhouse, flower box, small chest, and a plant shelf. Bell feels that learning these hands-on skills is crucial for students and their future career choices or helping them in their own homes.
This year Bell is going Above and Beyond by encouraging students to be involved in the community by starting the Good Citizen Project. This project shows the importance of community service and how to be a good citizen. Some students picked up trash around their neighborhood, volunteered at the animal shelter, assisted an elderly neighbor, and one student cleaned leaves and trash out of their neighboring nursing home’s flower beds. Next year, Bell plans on coordinating with community members and organizations to provide a variety of projects students can choose from to practice being a good citizen.
Bell is passionate about his students and teaching them skills they can use for a lifetime. When asked what he loves most about his job, he said his students are what he loves most. “Seeing students out in public, having them come to me bursting with excitement about some news in their life, and seeing them grow from young, Minecraft obsessed little kids to amazing, fully functional adults. It is inspiring and what keeps me going on those days when I can tell it’s a full moon without even looking.”
On November 18, as part of our STEAM-Minded Week, students at PCMS participated in a Cardboard Regatta. Teams of students in every science class tested their engineering skills by designing a boat that could hold one person and only be constructed of cardboard and duct tape. After problem solving and building their projects, students then tested the seaworthiness of their boats by seeing which team could sail the furthest in the school’s pool. A teacher team even got in on the action by designing and building a staff boat.
