Ritchie County Schools

Mrs. Lamp’s Travel WV class visited Adventures on the Gorge and completed the Treetops Ziplining Tour.

Download the Ritchie County Schools website to stay up to date on what’s happening at your school. Hold your finger down on the QR code picture to bring up the app on the App Store. At a glance, you will quickly have the menu for the day and a list of coming events.

Today is the State Math Field Day competition. We want to wish our 4th grader best of luck as he competes against other youth in the state. We also have a 7th grader that may participate today as the first alternate. We wish both these youngsters great success with the competition.

The high school chorus, under the direction of Mr. James Flesher, performed for the Board of Education Tuesday night. They did an amazing job. We appreciate all the practice that went into their great performance. The singing was wonderful!

It’s spring break time. Enjoy your time off from school!

These 3rd graders at Harrisville Elementary School are using their iPads to show real world examples of their mathematics vocabulary. It’s easy to see their excitement for learning and their developing skills using the Pages app on their iPads.

Ritchie County Schools hosted their annual Spelling Bee Tuesday. We would like to congratulate all of these school level winners along with congratulating our county winners. Great job!

Save the date for our Academic Learning Camp. Students in grades Preschool through 8 are invited to register and attend. This camp takes place the week of June 12th through July 7th at the schools. Week 1 is a 5 day week on June 12th-16th. Then we have 3 days for the 2nd week June 21st-23rd. The 3rd week July 26th-30th is a full week. We finish with a 3 day week July 5th-7th. The time is from 8:00 am - 1:30 pm with breakfast and lunch provided. School busses will provide transportation. Look for the registration forms which will be sent home the week of April 11th.

Save the date for our Outdoor Recreation Day-Camp at North Bend State Park. Students in grades 2 through 8 are invited to register and attend. This camp takes place the week of July 10th-13th and 17th-20th. The time is from 8:00 am - 2:00 pm with breakfast and lunch provided. School busses will provide transportation. Look for the registration forms which will be sent home the week of April 11th.

Students in 3rd grade at Harrisville are adding a little creativity to multiplication practice by using the Pages app with their iPads. These cute little farms the students created will be loaded with animals after the students roll their dice to multiply by 8.

Save the Date! Ritchie County High School Theatre will present the play "Peter Pan" May 12th and 13th. The theatre students are working hard on the play and would love to have you attend.

We are so proud of 4th grade student, Noah, for his outstanding performance at the Regional Math Field day. Noah received 2nd place and will advance to the State Math Field day!

Mrs. Vaughan's Kindergarten class received a special visit from Josh Redwine, Meteorologist at WBOY. He even brought along his friend Snowbird! Be on the lookout for their class tonight, 3/23, on WBOY Channel 12 News!

Save the date for our Academic Learning Camp. Students in grades Preschool through 8 are invited to register and attend. This camp takes place the week of June 12th through July 7th at the schools. The time is from 8:00 am - 1:30 pm with breakfast and lunch provided. School busses will provide transportation. Look for the registration forms which will be sent home the week of April 11th.

Save the date for our Outdoor Recreation Day-Camp at North Bend State Park. Students in grades 2 through 8 are invited to register and attend. This camp takes place the week of July 10th-13th and 17th-20th. The time is from 8:00 am - 2:30 pm with breakfast and lunch provided. School busses will provide transportation. Look for the registration forms which will be sent home the week of April 11th.

Our Preschool students took part in a monster drawing project that they shared with the high school art class. Those students then did their own interpretation of the monster. It is pretty amazing to see the different versions of the monsters. Thanks to both teachers and students for working together.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Have a wonderful day!

Students in kindergarten at Harrisville Elementary School have been learning about shapes. They enhanced their learning with their iPads as they took pictures of shapes around them. Then they added sentences with help from their microphone on their iPads as they spoke their sentences.

2nd Graders at Smithville Elementary are in a study of the westward expansion. As you can tell the lesson is coming to life with their covered wagons. Students have been involved in journaling and participating in the Oregon Trail game activity as a class each day.

Ritchie County Schools will be on a two hour delay today Tuesday, March 14, 2023 We appreciate your attention to this announcement. Thank you.