Join us for our Spring Celebration
Our Kids Heart Challenge will end on April 13th. All money will be due to the school by the 13th. You may send it in earlier.
Bus 644 might be a few minutes late this morning. There was an accident on route 20 and the bus was/is stuck in traffic.
IMPORTANT BUS INFORMATION:
Bus 625 will not run tomorrow, Friday, March 18th. This affects Athens, Melrose, PVMS, and PVHS.
Lost and hopefully found- If your child is missing a coat or jacket we might have it.
Who says teaching supply and demand cannot be fun? Mrs. Burton’s class is learning about supply and demand for their upcoming market days project. Today they played musical chairs in relation to supply and demand.
March 18 menu- Chicken Fajitas
Good evening Melrose Cardinals,
I have a few reminders. Thank you for sending in the items for our upcoming recycling art project. We are good on water bottles, cardboard, and milk jugs. You do not need to send those items in. We do need egg cartons, cardboard paper towel tubes, pool noodles, old cd's and plastic shopping bags. Don't forget to keep saving those aluminum cans. We want to win again this year.
Next Friday is an early out day. The 18th of March we will start dismissing at 12:16.
Just a reminder when dropping students off in the mornings or picking them up in the afternoons watch for students. In the afternoons on the church lot, please do not block our neighbor's driveway. If you would wait until all students are delivered to their parent/guardian and then pull out please. The safety of our students is number one.
Mercer County has a new app to receive information. If you have not downloaded it yet, do so. There is lots of good info going out.
Look on Schoology for a form on meal packs for our upcoming Re-Imagined Days in April.
Set those clocks forward on Sunday. The time springs forward and hopefully spring is close by!
We are super proud of these two young ladies. They both placed in the County Young Writer’s Contest. Myah Patel placed first and and Nora Williams placed second.
Beautiful sunshine and a happy Friday call for a walk outside to check out our new windows 🤗
We are SOOOO excited! Melrose cannot wait to have all new windows and HVAC. 😃
Important bus information from Mercer County Schools. Bus 625 will not run tomorrow, Thursday, March 10th. This affects Athens, Pikeview Middle, and Pikeview High. The bus also will not pick up at Melrose tomorrow afternoon. Thank you.
Congratulations to our Battle of the Books team. They placed first in Mercer County. They competed against all elementary schools and came out #1. Special thanks to our coaches Janet Burton and Rhonda Canaday Thomas.
Mark your calendar
Today at Melrose Elementary kindergartner’s shared their books they wrote and illustrated with various staff members.
Look who stopped by today at Melrose. The Grinch spent his day with us and the kiddos loved it!
Melrose had a surprise visitor on our morning Cardinal Tweets. He took Mrs. Bennett by surprise. He finally found his hat.
Today Melrose donated part of the hygiene products collected to a local Blessing Box.
Good evening Melrose Cardinals,
I have several reminders, so this will be a long message. First, thank you for helping out with our hygiene drive. We collected over 600 items! Mrs. Billings' class won the popcorn party for collecting the most items. Speaking of popcorn, Popcorn Fridays are back! We will begin selling popcorn for next Friday. It will be $1 per bag. Shoes, if you are cleaning out your child's closet and have some shoes to donate for our clothes closet, please send those in. We appreciate all the donations sent in this year. We have Dr. Seuss Week coming up. A flyer was sent home with what is happening each day. Monday is Mismatched Monday. We are looking forward to seeing all those crazy mismatched outfits! Group photos and make-up pictures for the yearbook are on Tuesday, March 1. If your child is on one of our teams, battle of the books, robotics, math field day, etc send their t-shirts with them. They will have their pictures made in those with their team. Make up pictures are scheduled for March 2 for our fifth grade fundraiser. This will be a spring themed backdrop. Again, flyers were sent home. PTO will host their annual spring book fair the week of March 7-10. Parking on the church lot will be tight the next few months. Construction on our new windows and HVAC system will begin. We are super excited to get all the upgrades. The construction guys will need to park on the church lot. They will not start parking until after morning drop off, but pick up will have limited parking spaces. Please stay in line and wait if possible. Please do not block the driveway by the gate. Your patience and understanding is appreciated. The outcome is worth the hassle of limited parking.
Have a great weekend,
Mrs. Bennett
PVMS choir and band met with our fifth graders who will attend PVMS next year. They gave advice on going to a new school.
Mercer County BOE Votes to Make Mask Wearing Optional
At the February 22nd meeting, the Mercer County Board of Education voted to move its mask guidance from mandatory to optional. This means that mask usage in buildings and on school buses will be optional for both students and staff.
This decision is being made as Mercer County and Mercer County Schools positive case numbers are going down after the increase during the winter holidays. Masks may also be required at individual school sites if Covid-19 transmission rates warrant a mask requirement.
Mercer County Schools will still have masks available to anyone wanting one. We will also continue communicating with the Mercer County Health Department about special cases and any concerning trends in classrooms or schools. The superintendent may institute practices if determined necessary in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The ultimate goal is to protect our students and prioritize learning. Given the quick spread of the Omicron variant and its rapid clinical course, it has made contact tracing in schools impractical when combined with the newly reduced timelines for quarantine and isolation set by the CDC. With that being said, Mercer County Schools will not perform contact tracing on behalf of the Mercer County Health Department.
All Mercer County schools are now reporting positive cases to a new WV DHHR tracking survey, which appears on Fridays at https://wvde.us/covid19/school-covid-dashboard/