06/23/08—Twelve Clay County School System Employees during or following the 2008 school year and were honored by the Clay County Board of Education for their service. Those who retired are:
Ella Markle, Aide
Shirley Reedy, Aide
Gary Workman, Custodian
Dave Ellison, Teacher
Evelyn Ellison, Teacher
Dawn Mullins, Teacher
Charles Mohnacky, Teacher
Henry Mullins, Teacher
Steve Osborne, Teacher
Dan Walker, Teacher
Pam Burton, Counselor
David Wayne, Counselor
During the meeting, Superintendent Larry Gillespie, along with Board Members Dr. RB Legg, Gene King, Beth Cercone, Jim Dawson, and Rick Tanner, thanked the retirees for their service and reminisced about favorite events that occurred during their careers. The retiree received nice plaques commemorating their dedication and service to the Clay County School System. These employees will be sorely missed, but the service they gave will not be forgotten. The lives of their students will be forever changed. Congratulations to each of the retirees. Click Here to downlad a copy of the article with photos. 04/04/08 ATTENTION STUDENTS, PARENTS, STAFF MEMBERS, and COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Our Satisfaction Surveys have been distributed to students, parents, and staff members. You may complete a hard copy of the form and return it to the school or board office -- OR, you can grade your school online. Simply go to the Student Link, Parent Center Link, or Staff Link and click on Satisfaction. You may also Click Here to take the survey. Your input will be much appreciated -- and your identity will remain confidential. Survey results will be made public.
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 Go to our News and Sports Link and click on Academics to see pics from the 2008 National Honor Society Induction Ceremony
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.
10/5/2007 Connie Harper has been named the 2007 West Virginia School Nurse of the Year! Click here for details. Congratulations to Connie Harper!
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.
9/26/2007 The Wayne F. White Outstanding Educator of the Year Award has been awarded to Clay County School's David Wayne! This award is sponsored by the West Virginia Access Center for Higher Education. Congratulations to David Wayne!
9/24/2007 Clay County Middle School has been awarded a SEEDS grant from Education Alliance. Their business mentor will be Mr. James Reed. They would like to thank Education Alliance and Mr. James Reed for this opportunity!
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.
9/21/07 FREE!! The Clay County Board of Education is currently offering a high school diploma program for any eligible Clay County citizen who has dropped out of high school. This program, Scholastic Programs for Reentry (SPRee), is free of charge. It is designed to enable adults to complete the remainder of their high school education! It doesn't matter how old you are or if you are employed, we can develop a plan that will work for you! Enrollment for the 2007 fall term has begun. If interested, please call Instructor Greg Knopp at 587-4266. He would be happy to discuss the program and answer any questions you might have.
