06/16/09 WVSCTC Your College of Opportunity! West Virginia State Community & Technical College (soon to be Kanawha Valley Community & Technical College) is looking for part time qualified adjunct instructors to teach the following courses at our Valley Fork site and in the surrounding community:
English
Math
Science
Business
Allied Health Courses
Humanities
Computer Application
If you are interested, feel free to call Kim Sovine, Director of Continuing Education and Community Development at (304) 766-5284 or email at ksivine@wvsctc.edu
06/01/09 Attention Teachers: There will be a Summer Youth Program in Clay County beginning June 29, 2009. Approximately 6 supervisors will be hired. Teachers are eligible. See your principal for an application. Or, go to www.wvworkforce.org and click the Summer Youth Program link to get an application. They are due Friday, June 5, 2009. Submit to Mrs. Paxton at the Vocational Building.
06/01/09 Attention Students: There will be a Summer Youth Program in Clay County beginning June 29, 2009. Students 14 and older should see the Vocational Director, Mrs. Paxton, for an application. Or, go to www.wvworkforce.org and click the Summer Youth Program link to get an application. They are due Friday, June 5, 2009. Submit to Mrs. Paxton at the Vocational Building.
05/04/09 May 8, 2009 is “West Virginia Young Writers’ Day.” The five best young writers from Clay County Schools will travel to the University of Charleston on this day for a special ceremony, recognizing them for their high ability and achievement. Students from other counties throughout West Virginia will participate in the ceremony as well. The best young writers in Clay County were selected based on the results of a Young Writers’ Contest, held in February and March of this year. They are: Grades 1 — 2 Tailyn Varney from Clay Elementary School; “The Dream of the Giant Ant”; Teacher: Miss Lewis Grade 3 — 4 Seth Stover from Clay Elementary School; “The Adventurous Rat in Paris”; Teacher: Mrs. Aleshire Grade 5 — 6 Stefani Duffield from Big Otter Elementary School; “The Poor Fish”; Teacher: Mrs. Chapman Grade 7—8 No Entries Grade 9 — 10 Erica Perdue from Clay County High School; “A Best Friend”; Teacher: Mrs. Gibson
Grade 11—12 Katy Cousino from Clay County High School; “Bobby Pins of Autumn”; Teacher: Mrs. Arnold
Congratulations to each of the five Clay County winners. Your teachers, principals, parents, and other family members are very proud of you. The ability to write well is a master key that unlocks many doors in life. Edward Bulwer-Lytton is known for his famous quote, “Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.” If this saying is indeed true, Tailyn, Seth, Stefani, Erica, and Katy must hold a great deal of potential in their “writing hands.” Expect great things from them in the future! 04/21/09 Go to News, then to Calendars to get a copy of the current school calendar 2008-2009 revised for snow days.
04/21/09 Clay County High School Athletic Boosters will have their annual Elimination Dinner on Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 5:00 at the CCHS cafeteria.
04/20/09 Attention Parents and Community Members:
Clay County Schools will be adopting textbooks for Dance, Driver’s Ed, Theatre and World Languages for 2009-2015. Copies of these books are on display for public review at Clay County High School Library. The Clay County Board of Education will be considering these texts for adoption at their May 4, 2009 meeting which will be held at the Clay County Board of Education Office at 6:00. 04/04/09 ATTENTION STUDENTS, PARENTS, STAFF MEMBERS, and COMMUNITY MEMBERS: You are invited to take our 2009 Satisfaction Survey. The survey is available online. Simply go to the Student Link, Parent Center Link, or Staff Link and click on Satisfaction to take the survey and to see the 2008 results. You may also Click Here to take the survey.. Your input will be much appreciated -- and your identity will remain confidential. Click Here to see the 2009 results as they are tabulated.Click Here for the 2008 Results! ATTENTION EMPLOYEES OF CLAY COUNTY SCHOOLS - Click Here to see the results of the 2010 Calendar Survey. The information has been compiled and will be presented to the Clay County Board of Education for consideration in approving next year's calendar. The deadline for submitting your vote was Friday, April 3 at 3:00 p.m. ATTENTION - College Students and graduating Seniors (18 years of age by June 15, 2009) may apply for a position with Energy Express in Clay County as mentors or volunteer coordinators. NOTE: The Deadline has been extended for those applying for Clay County until Friday, March 27, 2009. Click Here to get the application.
4/23/08 Clay County Teachers have been invited to submit projects needing funding to DonorsChoose.org. Go to www.donorschoose.org to browse Clay County projects. You can register to be a donor and help these teachers with programs that will benefit Clay County kids! Donors from all over the country have been donating to projects in Clay County Schools! Thanks on behalf of our teachers and students!
04/15/08 The Official 2008-2009 School Calendar is now posted on our website. To get either a color or black & white version in adobe pdf, click the News and Sports Link, then select the Calendars Link.
Be sure to visit the Alumni Page to catch up on your old high school days!
9/28/2007 Clay County Schools has been chosen to participate in an exciting grant from a partnership with the Governor's Office, the Benedum Foundation and the World Wide Workshop Foundation: The Globaloria-WV Program. The focus of this grant is to empower West Virginia youth to create and collaborate online with a 21st Century Curriculum. Warren Mullins (CCHS) and Jared Fitzwater (CCMS) are the teachers that will be working with this project. Go to http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv to read about this project.
9/24/2007 "Picturing America" grants were rewarded to 500 schools in our country. Each of our 6 schools won one of these grants! Each school will receive a collection of learge-scale reproductions depicting works of American Art. Teaching resources were also included and each school will use their collection in a creative way. To read more about this project, go to http://publicprograms.ala.org/picturingamerica/
9/24/2007 Clay County has just been awarded a partnership with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to provide a book to children ages 0-5 each month FREE. Sign your children up through Clay County Schools, Parents as Teachers, Clay County Health Department WIC program, and the Clay Public Library. Each child can receive up to 60 books if they get in the program at birth. Watch for the brochures! Go to imaginationlibrary.com for more information.
