Brooke Middle School

It's a busy Saturday for BMS students! We are wishing our Science Fair participants the best of luck in the Regional Fair at WLU. 💚💛

8th Grade Parents and Students--Important Information about Upcoming High School Scheduling

CyberSWAT (Safety While Accessing Technology)/Skyll is now being used as the primary tool to address digital citizenship for West Virginia’s students in grades 3-12. Senate Bill 466 was passed during the 2024 legislative session to be implemented during the 2025-2026 school year. The purpose of SB 466 is to provide education for students on various online safety topics, including recognizing and reporting suspicious communications, protecting personal information, digital relationships and understanding the risks of sharing explicit material. The Skyll platform is a simulation ‘game’ with a Choose Your Own Adventure type of scenarios for students to work through. The course is composed of six episodes that include topics such as sharing personal information, cyberbullying, phishing scams, etc. Through these choice-driven stories, students practice empathy, self-regulation, and sound judgment in realistic social and digital scenarios.

All students (K-12) must participate digital citizenship training annually. Parents may choose for their student to OPT out of participating in the CyberSWAT/Skyll course. An alternative digital citizenship curriculum (Common Sense Media) will be provided for students whose parents have submitted in writing to the school principal for their student to OPT OUT. These must be received by February 27, 2026.

The form will be sent home with your students this week. It is also uploaded here.

Brooke Middle School National Junior Honor Society, in collaboration with the Brooke High School FBLA, are collecting children's books February 2nd-February 13th. If you have any gently used books that you could no longer use, please think about donating them! Our drop off box will be located in our main lobby at the middle school by the security office.

Congratulations to our Science Fair Winners... they compete this weekend at WLU for the Regional Science Fair.
Good luck to all of you!

Lifting Days (for the 8th graders playing football next year) this week will be on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday immediately after school. Lifting will finish around 4:20pm. Coach Sisinni

Tomorrow we will have a NTID (Non-Traditional Instructional Day/Remote Learning). Students, you can access your assignments on Schoology. You can reach out to your individual teachers with any questions you might have. Stay warm everyone! ❄️☃️

Great job to our two positive office referrals this week:

Gavin Cervenak and Addie G.

There will be lifting today after school for ANY 8th grader interested in playing football next year at BHS. Lifting will be from 2:30 until 4:30. Students can take the activity bus if they wish.

Brooke Drones teams were awesome again this past weekend. Recognizing the accomplishments of both the BMS and BHS team members...

Brooke High's Kyle Chapa teamed up with BMS pilot Miles Hotlosz to represent us in the elimination rounds.

Jimmy DeMaria from BMS had the higher qualifying scores and chose Andrew Mockbee in the elimination rounds.

Jimmy and Andrew piloted their teams in near perfect rounds scoring over 200 points per round to beat out the other Brooke teams and the Morgantown teams to then claim the Teamwork Championship.

Team 98888A Country Drones Take Me Home members
Andrew Mockbee
Zabastian Utt
Kairi Faulkner
Xaria Utt
Xaria also won the skills champion and all around champion while still ranked 4th in the world.

The BMS Science Fair was held last night. Eight of our project winners from the school fair will progress to the WV Regional Science and Engineering Fair to be held at West Liberty University on February 7, 2026.
School level winners from the fair were:
Laila Bailey and Maci Sands with their project "How Does Athletic Ability Affect a Person’s Strength?"
Kingston Snider with his project "Walking vs Jogging"
Alex Brown, Kole Ferguson, and Hunter Larkins with their project "Test Scores with a Peppermint Kick"
Gage Smith with his project "How Stomach Acid Breaks Down Chips"
Aubrey Zietak and Emery Bianchin with their project "How does Sugar Affect Yeast Growth?"
Aiden Turbanic with his project "How do Rockets Work?"
David Geier and Hayleigh M. with their project "Sustainable Plastic"
Trinity Vincent with her project "Which Filtration Material Leads to the Clearest Water?"

Students are to bring Winbooks and chargers to school tomorrow. We will leave them in homerooms at the end of the day to charge for iReady benchmark testing on Wednesday and Thursday. Please remember to bring chargers! Thank you!

Saturday at St. Albans High School Drones tournament our Brooke teams were amazing!

Team 98888d
Spencer Brink
Myles Hotlosz
Wyatt Loyd

Team 98888e
Kyle Chapa
Joey Tomes
Collette Chapa
* These two teamed up and made a run in the playoffs to the final round.

Team 98888c
Jimmy DeMaria
Liam Friend
Judges award
Jimmy DeMaria - Jimmy was also given special recognition and a leadership award.

Team 98888b
Brady Yost
Kay Hartley
Xander DeSimone
* Teamwork Mission Champion

Team 98888a (High Schoolers)
Andrew Mockbee
Zabastian Utt
Charlie McCoy
Kairi Faulkner
Xaria Utt
This group came back with multiple awards:
* All around champion
* Teamwork champion
* Skills mission champion
* 1st place in WV
* 1st place in Northeast United States
* 4th place in the world.

Shout out to our positive office referrals:

Jamie Heck
Keenan Mowry
Chloey Kennedy
Ashley McDonough
Emalee Staymate

Keep up the great work!

Congratulations to our PBIS Winners for the first semester! Students without any discipline referrals were entered to win a behavior reward. Winners were pulled randomly.
Our first semester winners are Leo, Bailey, Gavin, Alianna, Aaiden, Amelia, Aiden, and Raelynn! Great job!

Congratulations to our December attendance challenge winners!

A few previous BMS students, Lorelei Costlow and Morgan McKinney, came to present information about BHS FBLA to our 8th graders. Great job, Morgan & Lorelei!

The Stoller Butter Braid Pastry Fundraiser pick up date has been changed to Thursday December 18 between 12 and 2 due to the school closing tomorrow.

Although school was canceled today, we will be continuing to follow our Holiday Theme week schedule! Tomorrow is Merry and Bright! Wear your tinsel, lighted sweaters, and lighted necklaces! Reminder that holiday hats are allowed!