Raleigh County School District

Kindergarten Round-Up Camps: Beckley Elementary, Daniels Elementary, Fairdale Elementary. These students were given an opportunity to focus on kindergarten readiness skills such as... • Literacy Skills - print concepts, phonemic awareness, and emerging writing • Math numeracy - rounding up things to count and matching activities • Basic concepts for fine motor control – holding pencil/scissors, opening lunch packages • Social skills such as manners, cooperative play, sharing, and conflict resolution • APL strategies for school safety and school behavior • Bus safety and exploring a school bus

STEAM Camp Beckley Stratton Middle School: STEAM Camp activities centered around the book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. Students focused daily on reading, writing, and mathematics addressing state standards. These lessons were addressed through direct teacher instruction sessions. The teachers use the book as a starting point for standard integration. Students also integrated reading, math, science, social studies, art, physical education, and technology to complete project/problem -based STEAM learning. A few of the STEAM camp activities included the WVU STEM TAC Hydraulic Claw constructions, demonstrations, and rebuilds; building windmills from discarded materials (partnered with WV State University), art projects, and technology for writing assignments and EGames.

WVU Institute of Technology STEM Camp.

WVU Institute of Technology STEM Camp:

WVU Institute of Technology STEM Camp: Camp STEM is southern West Virginia’s premiere camp for high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math fields. The week-long camp was held on WVU Tech's campus in Beckley, West Virginia, and featured a variety of STEM classes, special projects and field trips all specifically chosen to create a fun and engaging learning environment. During Camp STEM, students studied with professors who are experts in their fields and college students studying the STEM fields. Students attended classes, conducted experiments and learned about the exciting careers waiting for men and women in STEM fields. (Modified from original description WVU Tech site) #rcsdwv #WVPublicSchoolProud

Exploring WV Coal City Elementary: Students studied WV authors and completed reading and writing lessons from these studies. West Virginia topographical, history, tourism, and gardening lessons and activities integrated core content studies of math, science, and social studies. Students completed several art projects to demonstrate lesson mastery. #rcsdwv #WVPublicSchoolProud

Oceans of Possibilities Ghent Elementary: Students integrated reading, writing, math, social studies, art, music, and science lessons to learn about ocean life. These lessons focused on project/problem-based activities for each grade level. Emphasis for reading and math incorporated daily iReady individual learning paths. To strengthen social emotional skills students focused on communication and problem solving “Just be Kind”. #rcsdwv #WVPublicSchoolProud

Have a safe and celebratory Independence Day weekend!

We are excited to be launching the brand new website and app soon! Stay tuned for updates this summer!

SUCCESS Career Fair Thursday, May 19th 6:30p-7:30p Online Zoom Meeting For all parents/ guardians of middle school students in Raleigh County. https://wvu.zoom.us/j/98335396130?pwd=NXNhd0kvWlZzeVhUcHlBZW1mTGFJdz09&fbclid=IwAR2tiu-A5Ag5RhEpcp_A5dwAzjKippu0lYl4huwflpz1yTUyAotVgbh6K_k#success

Raleigh County Schools is pleased to announce the opening of the Aspiring Teacher Cohort 1 application. Please review the attached flyer and share this information with any aspiring teacher who you feel may meet the cohort entry requirements. Web Link: https://tinyurl.com/rcsdatcWeb