📢 Important Announcement for All Calhoun County Schools!
The WV Writing Assessment has been postponed! 📝📅
The assessment for grade 3rd-8th originally scheduled for this week will now take place on Tuesday, March 12th. 🗓️
Make sure to mark your calendars and prepare accordingly. Let’s all strive for excellence in our writing skills! 🌟🖋️
#WVWritingAssessment #EducationMatters #SchoolUpdates
Good evening, Calhoun County Schools will be open tomorrow, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Additional support staff will be available in Student Services at all schools for students and staff.
In the coming days, your children may have difficult questions about recent events, You may use this guide to help with these difficult conversations. Please feel free to reach out to our Student Services Team, we are here to support you. We thank our Save the Children partners for their support.
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Due to closure of Calhoun County Schools, there will be no athletic or extracurricular activity practices on 3/5/24.
Get signed up now! Friday is the deadline!!
Hello, 9th to 12th grade Special Education Parents. You are invited to join us for our Special Education Parent Focus Group as part of our Special Education monitoring, on March 7, 2024, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm, in the CMHS office conference room.
Middle School Baseball will practice
Monday, Tuesday - right after school. Wednesday, Thursday - 6 to 8. Friday - right after school.
Cuts will be made Thursday.
📢 Attention, Calhoun Students! 📝🌟
This week, our brilliant students across the county, in grades 3-8, will be embarking on a writing adventure as part of the West Virginia General Summative Assessment (WVGSA)! 🎉📚
📅 When? The assessment window runs from March 4th -March 8th 2024. So, sharpen those pencils (or flex those keyboard fingers) because it’s almost showtime! 🗓️👩💻
🤔 How Can You Prepare? Get a Good night's sleep and eat a good breakfast.
📝🔍 Channel Your Inner Wordsmith: Revise those writing techniques, embrace creativity, and let your ideas flow! 🌟📝
Remember, you’ve got this! 🌈🚀 Shine bright, express yourselves, and conquer those writing prompts. We believe in you! 🙌📖
#WVGSA #WritingAdventure #WestVirginiaStudents
Due to weather conditions Calhoun County Schools will be dismissing at 1:00 today.
American Legion Auxiliary WV Rhododendron Girls State
The CMHS performing arts department is excited to announce that the first annual All-Area Honor Band Invitational will take place at Calhoun Middle High School on March 8, with guest clinicians from the Indiana Wesleyan University Wind Ensemble. The culmination of this collaboration will be public evening concert performances by both groups. IWU Wind Ensemble will perform March 8, 2024, at 6 p.m. and the All-Area Band will perform March 9, 2024, at 6 p.m., both in the CMHS auditorium! Please plan to join us! Thank you to you to Briana Blankenship, IWU Director of Athletic Bands, and 2008 CHS graduate (and 3X WV All-State Band member!) for selecting CMHS as a spring tour stop!
We are taking the first 50 students!
Ezra Anderson, 7th grade Calhoun Middle School student, completed in the WVYWA State Wrestling Tournament and earned a top spot on the podium! Ezra wrestles for Calhoun Middle School and Calhoun Youth teams. Congratulations Ezra on your State Championship title!
Junior Bingo Meeting tomorrow at 5pm, February 22, 2024
What a wonderful day we had at the Calhoun County Social Studies Fair! 🙌 We are so impressed by the creativity and hard work of our students who presented their projects on various topics related to history, culture, and society. 📚
We would like to congratulate all the participants. The first-place winners will advance to the Region 5 fair held at Blennerhassett School on Saturday, March 9, 2024. 🏅
Special thanks to businesses and organizations for providing judges and support to organize the event. Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council, Metheny Construction, Start Farm of Glenville, Burnsville Docks, Queen Flora Pagents, and our local fair coordinators and teachers at each school.
The World of Lego
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
Economics
Individual
Chandler Cottrell 1st place
Teufel Hunden
Div 1 (grades 3-5) Sociology
Individual
Charles Kilby 1st place
Appalachian Sea Salt
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
State and Local Studies Individual
Silas Cunningham 1st place
The Boston Tea Party
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
US History Individual
Sophia Goodrich 1st place
I am Rosie the Riveter
Div 2 ( grades 6-8)
Sociology Individual
Brooke Tingler 1st place
The Titanic
Div 2 ( grades 6-8)
US History Group
Eleana White Mason Laughlin 1st place
It's a Small World
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
Anthropology Individual
Embree Gungle 2nd place
RMS Titanic
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
Psychology Individual
Rylee Harris 2nd place
WV Governor's Mansion
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
State and Local Studies Individual
Mason Sampson 2nd place
The Bubonic Plague
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
World History Individual
Willis Gainer-Pittman 2nd place
1, 2, 3, 4, Do You Wanna Hear Some More?
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
World History Individual
Kenlie Jarivs 3rd place
The Nutcracker Village
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
Sociology Group
Elana Harris Annie Nelson Honorable Mention
Cass Scenic Railroad
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
State and Local Studies Individual
LIllian Caldwell Honorable Mention
New River Gorge Bridge
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
State and Local Studies Group
Bryson Casner Jaselyn Adams Honorable Mention
Hatfield and McCoy
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
State and Local Studies Individual
Hunter Wise Honorable Mention
The Vietnam War
Div 1 (grades 3-5)
World History Individual
Jacob Gumm Honorable Mention
The Navajos
Div 2 ( grades 6-8)
US History Individual
Payton Quick Honorable Mention
Propaganda of World War II
Div 2 ( grades 6-8)
US History Group
Makenzie Justice Abbigale Sillaman Honorable Mention
Farming in the 1920's
Div 2 ( grades 6-8)
US History Individual
Michael McGuire Honorable Mention
A Stitch in Time
Div 2 ( grades 6-8)
World History Individual
Mason Craddock Honorable Mention
The Battle of Britain WWII
Div 2 ( grades 6-8)
World History Group
Kalee Sampson Haley Nicholas Honorable Mention
The Hidden Kennedy
Div 3 ( grades 9-12)
US History Group
Alexis Villines Abby Nicolas Honorable Mention
The Berlin Airlift
Div 3 ( grades 9-12)
World History Individual
Devan King Honorable Mention
Beware the Angel of Death
Div 3 ( grades 9-12)
World History Individual
Sydney Goff Honorable Mention
🏀Tuesday night Calhoun's senior class was honored before leaving the fans with some great memories as the Red Devils broke a 58-year-old record by winning their 11th straight game with a 90-64 hammering of Hannan. The win broke a mark that was set back in 1966.
🏀Landon Bennett led Calhoun with 24 points while also getting his 110th steal this season breaking the old record of 109 which was set by Zach Moore a few years ago.
‼️The boys travel to Wahama 2/28, for a sectional game. Tip-off is at 7pm. If you can make the trip, the boys would sure love the support!
Class of 2024 pizza order pickup 2/21/24
Calhoun County high school softball tryouts will begin Monday, February 26, 2024, 4-6pm. Bring both gym shoes and cleats. Depending on weather, we will be outside as much as possible. If you haven't played another sport this school year, you will need a sports physical dated on or after 5/1/23 before you can participate. Please direct any questions to Coach Charlie Starcher.
Our High School varsity boys basketball team is a sight to see! 👀They are 13-7 which ties the best record in 20 years (2004). We have 2 remaining home games left. They are on a 9 game winning streak. 10 is the school record, (1966).
If you do not have anything going on Monday night we host clay county at 5:45 jv, varsity to follow. This will be the last game of the season for JV.
Tuesday we host Hannan, which is our last home game of the regular season and will be a WHITE OUT and Senior Night. Come out and give your support to these great kids!!
Also, all student admission will be free for Tuesdays White-out/Senior Night game. Please let Jeremy and Shannon Johnson know that we appreciate their sponsorship of the students!
Congratulations Calhoun Varsity Wrestlers and Coaches!! We have 3 qualifiers, 2 alternates, and 2 2nd alternates that are WV STATE tournament bound, Feb. 29-March 2 in Huntington. The team finished 5th out of 17 teams.
106 Reese Schoolcraft- 2nd
132 Eli Bailey-6th 2nd alternate
144 Adam Hughes-6th 2nd alternate
150 Wyatt Nichols-4th
157 Haiden Staton-3rd
175 Sam Elmore-5th alternate
215 Levi Stump-5th alternate
