Remember that Martinsville City Schools will be closed Wednesday, November 11 in observance of Veterans Day.
Reminder: Martinsville City Public Schools will be closed Tuesday, November 3 for Election Day.
Trick or treat! 🎃 Martinsville High School is hosting their third annual student-run Trick or Treat this Wednesday, October 28, from 4-6 p.m. in the MHS Commons. This free family event is open to the whole MHC community. You do not have to be enrolled in Martinsville City schools to attend. We hope to see you there!
Remember that Monday, October 12 is a student holiday and teacher professional day. Classes will resume on Tuesday, October 13. We hope our students enjoy a safe and happy long weekend!
Did you know that, in Virginia, high school students are required to be trained in CPR, AED, and emergency first aid in order to graduate? That's why we were delighted to receive an amazing donation last week from the American Heart Association - Virginia and Sovah Health - Martinsville!
These American Heart Association CPR in Schools & First Aid kits are already in place at Martinsville High School, ready to help the next class of students learn these important, life-saving techniques!
Over at Clearview, our VPI-4 students just became published authors! Each class worked together to write and illustrate their very own book, with every student contributing a page all about them! The books just came back from the printer, and these young authors couldn’t be more excited to see their hard work in print. What a fun and meaningful way to build literacy, creativity, and confidence! 🧠💡📚
MCPS families: The final registration for Back2School is Tuesday, July 23 from 6-8 p.m. Back2School provides FREE school supplies for children but pre-registration is required. Check your email or visit www.gob2s.com for more information.
We're providing free meals for kids and teens 18 and under Monday through Thursday at all of our schools across the district this month! No applications, no sign-ups, no hassle.
Stop by with your family to enjoy breakfast or lunch on us. To learn more, call (276) 403-5172. Visit our website for a full list of meal times and locations: https://www.martinsville.k12.va.us/article/1615863
Thank you to our fantastic MHS student-athletes for celebrating Read Across America Week with our young readers!
Yesterday, student-athletes from Martinsville High School travelled to Clearview, Albert Harris, and Patrick Henry to read with some of our classes. It was inspiring to watch these student-athletes sharing stories with our young learners.
Thanks for helping us inspire a love of reading and learning in the next generation!
Yesterday, some of our preschoolers had a pizza party! 🍕🍕🍕
The party was inspired by the book "Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party" by Kimberly and James Dean, which classes read together to practice alliteration.
For their own pizza party, these young chefs 🧑🍳 worked together to write a recipe for their pizza then actually got to create pizzas of their own while remembering the correct order of operations.
Everyone agreed that the best part was definitely the taste test!
This morning, some of our Clearview students traveled to Piedmont Arts to hear from a very special guest speaker- Santa!
Santa shared stories of the North Pole, elves, reindeer, and even jingle bells with these eager young learners. Students were delighted by the wonderful holiday songs performed by the Campbell Court Elementary student choir from Henry County Public Schools!
Our Clearview families had a blast last night at Clearview's Trunk-or-Treat celebration!
Not only did students and their families get to collect candy and play games, each student also got to select a book to bring home to read with their families!
Today is the 20th day of school! Students who have missed two or more days by this point in the school year are considered chronically absent.
It's never too early to start building the habit of good attendance!
Children who are chronically absent in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade are much less likely to read at grade level by third grade.
Students who cannot read at grade level by the end of third grade are 4 times more likely to drop out of high school.
#AttendanceMattersVA #schooleveryday
Please remember that MCPS will be closed on Monday, September 4 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. Classes will resume Tuesday, September 5.
On his last day of work, MCPS would like to thank Officer Shane McPeek for serving has our SRO for over a decade.
Officer McPeek has worked at both Martinsville Middle School and Martinsville High School and has played played an integral role in school safety improvements during his time with us. Thank you, Officer McPeek, for keeping our students and staff safe! We wish you the best in your retirement!
It was amazing to see so many smiling faces this morning on the first day of a new school year!
Thank you to the Martinsville Sheriff's Office, Police Department, Martinsville Fire & EMS, and city council members who joined our staff and school board members in welcoming our students back to school! It was a great way to kick off the Year of Endless Possibilities here at MCPS!
Students, your MCPS family missed you! We can't wait to see what you will achieve this year!
Curious about the upcoming school year? 🍎
🏫 MCPS is hosting a district-wide open house for all schools on Wednesday, August 9 from 12-7 p.m. This is a great opportunity for students and their families to meet teachers and staff, visit classrooms, learn about the upcoming school year, and get to know their school!
✉️ Each school will send out information to families regarding their specific open house procedures.
👉 To learn more about open house, visit our Back to School page on the MCPS website: https://www.martinsville.k12.va.us/page/back-to-school-2023-2024
🐠🫧 We got no troubles, life is the bubbles, under the sea! 🫧🐠
Summer learning is off to a great start at Clearview! This week's theme is Under the Sea and yesterday, students got to craft their own spiky, sea-dwelling sea urchin!
Just because the academic year is over doesn't mean our teachers aren't hard at work! Last week, teachers from across the division came together for a full week of curriculum work to prepare for the upcoming year of learning.
So what exactly is curriculum work? Teachers and instructional staff are working together, collaborating across disciplines, grade levels, and even schools, to examine data from this school year to adjust their pacing and build assessments to help improve the learning experience and monitor student progress throughout the next year.
(As you can see from some of the expressions in the photos, some teachers handle the pressures of curriculum work better than others. Hang in there, Mr. Hackenberg!)
Wow! Congratulations to our MMS Odyssey of the Mind team! They placed 7th overall in the World Finals and 2nd in Spontaneous! 🌎
These students have worked so hard and we were proud to have them represent MCPS on a global stage.