On behalf of the Grant County Board of Education and Mitch Webster, Superintendent of Grant County School we would thank everyone for a great opening to the new school year. This is also a reminder to everyone that there is no school on Monday, September 5 for the Labor Day Holiday.
Students in Grant County Schools will once again receive visits from Mia, a certified therapy dog. If your child is allergic or you do not want them around Mia, please contact Angie Fraley at 304-257-1011 ext. 127 to request a release form.
WV students entering 7th grade and 12th grades are REQUIRED to have some vaccines, and these must be met before they start school.
REQUIRED
1) (Tdap) which protects against tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (whooping cough).
2) Meningitis (MPSV4) vaccine, (which protects against a type of meningitis). If a student is entering the 12th grade, they must have had a dose after the 16th birthday in addition to the dose they may have had at age 11 or 12.
Other vaccines are highly RECOMMENDED and will be available but not required.
3) MENINGITIS B Vaccine covers an additional strain (Meningitis B) that is not included in the required meningitis vaccine for age 16 and older.
4) Varicella (Chickenpox) Vaccine if the student has not had the chickenpox vaccine or a second dose of vaccine.
5) HPV Vaccine is also recommended.
Please remember, your child will NOT be enrolled into 7th or 12th without proof of receiving the REQUIRED vaccines.
These vaccines will be available at Private Providers or:
Grant County Health Department
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY CALL 304-257-4922
Every three years, non-profit hospitals in the United States are required to gather input from their community members about their health concerns and create plans to address and improve upon the services provided. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey below. Responses to this survey help identify the services and resources that you need and want to see in this area. In 2019, the CHNA survey identified cancer as the number one health-related need in this community. Since that time Grant Memorial Hospital, in affiliation with WVU Cancer Institute opened a new Oncology and Infusion Center at GMH to address that health concern. We greatly value your responses and will continue to offer Compassionate, Safe, and Innovative Healthcare. If you would like to receive a paper copy of this survey, please contact Grant Memorial Hospital at 304-257-5806.
https://wvu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1FxbKB7bBlKDWD4
A message from Superintendent Mitch Webster concerning year books:
It has brought me great pleasure to see that this year's yearbooks at PHS went home with students prior to the end of the school year. Moving forward the expectation will be each year to have yearbooks in hand no later than the beginning of the next school year. With that being said, it has been brought to my attention that there are yearbooks from previous years that have been paid for by students, but they have yet to receive them. I have been assured that every student that has paid for a yearbook from a previous year will receive it. It is my goal that this situation will be totally rectified by the end of the upcoming school year if not before. I sincerely apologize that this process has taken entirely too long and I truly appreciate the extreme patience those of you that this pertains to have exhibited. Thank you.
Enrollment in the Grant County Schools Virtual Learning Program for next School year 22-23 is now open. A parent or guardian wishing for their child to participate in virtual instruction must register by 3:00 p.m. on August 12, 2022, at :
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=S7AZ4AwzekaLrgn7FzdNamLCI878qvhDgcuTTYEup3JUMUZOQ1gxNkcwUEZBQU0zRlczUU9ERVo3Uy4u
Congratulations to the 2023 High School Teacher of the Year for Grant County Schools, Jon Webster of Petersburg High School.
Congratulations to the 2023 Middle School Teacher of the Year for Grant County Schools, Ashley Wilkins-Franks of Petersburg High School.
Congratulations to the 2023 Grant County Schools Elementary Teacher of the Year, Diana Harman from Petersburg Elementary School.
GCS is excited to announce the offering of SAIL - Summer Adventures in Learning. SAIL is a wonderful opportunity that will provide academic & social activities. Students can also participate in Energy Express. Click here for more information: https://tinyurl.com/GCSSAIL
Project Equip and Communities In Schools teamed up to provide Easter food boxes to 40 local Grant County Schools families. Also, would like to thank the Pilgrim's Prepared Plant for the donation of boxes for this event.
There will be no school for student Friday April 8th to begin Spring Break. Students and staff will return to school on Tuesday April 19th. On behalf of the Grant County Board of Education and Mitch Webster enjoy your break.
GCS is excited to announce the offering of SAIL - Summer Adventures in Learning. SAIL is a wonderful opportunity that will provide academic & social activities. Students can also participate in Energy Express. Click here for more information: https://tinyurl.com/GCSSAIL
Grant County Schools will operate on a 2 hour delay tomorrow Wednesday March 30, 2022.
Due to inclement weather the Regional Social Studies Fair has been postponed until next Saturday March 19th same time and same location.
This message is for guardians wishing to apply for a student transfer for next school year FY23. If you have applied and were approved for transfer in previous years, you will no longer need to re-apply. This only impacts students in Grant County Schools. Your current request will continue until you notify the school principal of the need to change or until we contact you directly. If you are transferring a student to another county you will need to adhere to that county's requirements. The application for new transfer requests is now available and can be found on the Grant County Schools website, Twitter and Facebook pages. Please contact Melissa Smouse, Director of Student Services with any questions. Thank you.
Superintendent Webster spoke with Grant County Resident and Podcaster, J.r. Murray, about trending educational topics, on Explore Grant County. Please go to the following link to access it.
https://www.facebook.com/Explore-Grant-County-132204073461253/videos/explore-education-with-grant-county-superintendent-of-schools-mitch-webster/754681148838566/
All schools in Grant County will be non-traditional learning on Thu. Feb. 24, 2022 due to freexing rain and sleet.
Grant County Schools will be on a two hour delay due to potential freezing rain and sleet/snow.
Good Evening, This is Superintendent Webster and I am calling to give you an update on our mask policy. Before I do that however, I want to thank all parents for your patience and understanding while we have gone through this process. In particular, I want to thank our students for complying with the mandate in all of our schools. Your willingness to do so has allowed us to keep our schools open and all of our athletic teams able to compete. When the mask mandate was put into place last September I said it would be temporary. I certainly did not envision it lasting this long. Also, at that time I had not even heard of the words Delta and Omicron as it related to variants of the original Covid 19 virus. I believe, along with unanimous agreement form our Board of Education, that the time to end our mask mandate is drawing near. I am basing this on a continuous decline in Covid numbers in our schools and a national and statewide trend to remove the mask mandates. Therefore, the last day students and staff will be required to wear masks, in Grant County Schools, will be next Friday, February 25th. When students return to school on Monday February 28th masks will no longer be required. Any student or staff member wanting to wear a mask after the mandate is lifted is still welcome to do so. As a matter of fact, I would strongly recommend it in high traffic areas and group settings. Obviously, quarantine protocols will still in be in place and I want to keep this simple. There will be two quarantine scenarios. Scenario 1 would require any student or staff member that tested positive to quarantine until released by their physician to return to school. Scenario 2 would require that any student or staff member that developed symptoms after being a close contact to an individual that tested positive to quarantine for 5 days or until they receive a negative test result. This is one step to getting us back to some degree of normalcy. I thank you again for your cooperation during this entire process. With that being said, enjoy your weekend!
