Today we welcomed back JCS teachers and service personnel to kick off the 2023-24 school year! Buses start rolling for students next Monday, August 21. We can't wait to see you then!
Volleyball tryouts will be held from 3-5pm on the following days:
Monday, August 14-8th Grade only
Tuesday, August 15-6th and 7th Grade
Wednesday, August 16-All Grades
🎉JCS is excited to welcome more than 60 new educators for the 2023-24 school year! We're having so much fun at New Teacher Orientation this week and can't wait to see students on August 21 for a brand new year! 🤩
Weather Update 8/7/23
Football Practice for today has been cancelled due to the forecasted weather.
Summer Band is cancelled after 3pm today, August 7th, due to severe weather. Football practice will be conducted inside. Players will come in through the locker room entrance and meet in the gym.
FOOTBALL ANNOUNCEMENT: Sign ups will take place at HFMS on July 31st from 4-6pm. Students must have a completed sports physical. This form can be found on the school website under Families. Practices will start on August 7th from 4-6pm.
CROSS COUNTRY ANNOUNCEMENT: Practices begin on August 1st from 9-10:30am. Students must bring a water bottle and be ready to run. Sports physicals are required prior to the first practice.
Anyone interested in playing boys basketball next year: practices will be June 12-23, Mon-Fri, 4-6pm.
Incoming sixth-grade students can register now for the Tame the Tiger Event happening August 9-10. Register online by July 15!
https://hfms.jcswv.org/o/hfms/page/taming-the-tiger-2023
Volleyball Information: Open gym dates will be Tuesday, August 8th and Thursday, August 10th from 4-6pm. Try outs will be held on August 14th-16th from 3-5pm.
Students must have a sports physical completed prior to attending open gym and tryouts.
HFMS Parents, please pick up your student's medication no later than June 2nd, 2023.
Upcoming Events:
Free Physicals: June 9th, 1:30-3:30
Football Sign Ups: July 31st, 4:00-6:00
Cross Country: August 1st, 9:00-10:30
Football Practices Start: August 7th, 4:00-6:00
Volley Practices Start: August 14th, TBA
Dairy Queen Spirit Night, August 29th, 5:00-10:00
During state testing week, Ms. Whitacre's 7th grade classes spent time investigating Mayan civilization via an Amazing Race Geocaching Quest and an archaeology lab activity. For the geocaching quest, Ms. Whitacre's classes used GPS coordinates and Google maps to track down their caches. This was a timed quest where each group had their own coordinates and clues to find. All clues and riddles were about Mayan civilization, which led into a lesson on archaeology in Mesoamerica. Students were given terracotta pots to paint glyphs on. The pots were broken and the students were then asked to reconstruct the pot using pottery reconstruction techniques. These activities gave students the opportunity to interact with Social Studies not only outside the classroom but also as an archaeologist or a historian who is conducting research in the field.
Reminder for 5/24: The 8th Grade Awards Ceremony for HFMS will be held on Wednesday, May 24, at 9:00 am. This event will be held on the athletic field and parents are asked to sit in the football bleachers or bring a chair. Rain date is Thursday, May 25, 9:00 am.
Mark your calendars! 📅 We're pleased to partner with Harpers Ferry Family Medicine to offer free sports physicals to JCS students on Friday, June 9, from 1:30-3:30 p.m. JCS students wishing to receive a physical should report to Harpers Ferry Middle School to complete preliminary paperwork. Please see below for additional details.
Ms. Kern and Mrs. Barker's 8th Grade West Virginia Studies Classes recently went on a walking field trip to Storer College. Before the trip, students learned about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois and their differing views on how to achieve full equal civil rights for African Americans. They also learned about the history of Storer College and its role in the Niagara Movement. The Niagara Movement was a civil rights movement led by W.E.B. Dubois and William Monroe Trotter. Harpers Ferry was chosen as the location for the second meeting of the Niagara Movement in 1906.
Members of the Class of 2023 return to their elementary and middle schools this week for one last stroll down memory lane ahead of graduation. Thanks to our HFMS community for welcoming back these alumni from Jefferson and Washington High Schools!
Today is National School Nurse Day! We're proud to recognize the dedicated school nurses who make a difference in the lives of our students by protecting and promoting their health and advancing their academic success. Thank you for all you do!
Students in Ms. Rinard's and Ms. Turley's 8th Grade Math classes reviewed for the state test using Question Trails. Question Trails are a fun movement based instructional strategy where students solve problems and use the answers to lead them to the next problem until they complete the entire trail. Students enjoyed the activity and the unique way to review what they have learned this year.
We're proud to recognize six eighth grade students from Charles Town, Harpers Ferry, Shepherdstown, and Wildwood Middle Schools designated as 2023 Knights of the Golden Horseshoe! The prestigious annual award commends West Virginia eighth graders for their outstanding knowledge of Mountain State history. The West Virginia Department of Education will honor the 2023 designees at an induction ceremony on June 13 in Charleston. Visit https://bit.ly/413KhCr for a complete list of winners. Congratulations to all on this outstanding accomplishment!
Congratulations to Michelle LaFollette and Jennifer Powell on being named Harpers Ferry Middle School's Teacher of the Year and Service Person of the Year! We were happy to celebrate and honor Ms. LaFollette and Ms. Powell at the annual JCS recognition dinner on April 26.
