Mrs. Smith’s 8th Grade science classes wrapped up their ecology unit with an exciting hands-on project! 🌿🦌Students created detailed food webs based on their chosen biomes, showing all the feeding relationships within their ecosystems. Amazing work, scientists in the making! 🌎
Please stop for the bus. Lives depend on it.
🎉 B-UMS Families — It’s Report Card Day! 📚🧡
Be sure to check in with your student when they get home today — they’re bringing some important items your way!
📄 Report Cards are printed on BRIGHT orange paper (hard to miss!)
📸 School Pictures are also coming home today!
We’re proud of our students and all their hard work this quarter. Wishing everyone a fantastic weekend!
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Be sure to check in with your student when they get home today — they’re bringing some important items your way!
📄 Report Cards are printed on BRIGHT orange paper (hard to miss!)
📸 School Pictures are also coming home today!
We’re proud of our students and all their hard work this quarter. Wishing everyone a fantastic weekend!
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Girls Basketball tryouts information in the flyer.
🏃♂️ Mountaineer Mile — October Update! 🏃♀️
Our students have already logged an incredible 2,561.5 miles this semester — that’s far enough to take us all the way from Buckhannon-Upshur Middle School to San Francisco, California! 🎉
Our top 7th-grade runners this month are:
🥇 Collin Holley – 23.35 miles
🥈 Hudson Riffle – 20.85 miles
🥉 Hunter Swisher – 19.55 miles
Amazing work, Buccaneers! Let's strive for a happier and healthier lifestyle, together!
Our students have already logged an incredible 2,561.5 miles this semester — that’s far enough to take us all the way from Buckhannon-Upshur Middle School to San Francisco, California! 🎉
Our top 7th-grade runners this month are:
🥇 Collin Holley – 23.35 miles
🥈 Hudson Riffle – 20.85 miles
🥉 Hunter Swisher – 19.55 miles
Amazing work, Buccaneers! Let's strive for a happier and healthier lifestyle, together!
B-UMS families-friendly reminder tomorrow-Friday October 10, 2025 is picture day!
Our students recently completed a hand sewing project focused on creating custom potholders — and the results were absolutely amazing! This project is a hands-on opportunity to build essential life skills. Throughout the process, students practiced:
Time Management: Planning their work and staying on task to meet deadlines.
Communication: Collaborating with peers, asking questions, and sharing techniques.
Following Directions: Carefully executing each step to ensure quality and safety.
Each potholder is a reflection of their creativity, patience, and growing confidence in hand sewing. We’re so proud of their hard work and the beautiful, functional pieces they produced!
Time Management: Planning their work and staying on task to meet deadlines.
Communication: Collaborating with peers, asking questions, and sharing techniques.
Following Directions: Carefully executing each step to ensure quality and safety.
Each potholder is a reflection of their creativity, patience, and growing confidence in hand sewing. We’re so proud of their hard work and the beautiful, functional pieces they produced!
🎉 Under 10 for the Win! 🎉
Let’s make this school year one to remember—with fewer than 10 absences all year long!
Regular school attendance builds lifelong habits, keeps students on track academically, and helps them grow into successful, confident adults. We’re committed to supporting every student, every day—and we’re excited to roll out our year-long monthly incentives plan to keep the momentum going!
📅 Check out the flyer for all the details and join us in making attendance a priority. Let’s do this—together!
#AttendanceMatters #Under10ForTheWin #MiddleSchoolSuccess #EveryDayCounts
Let’s make this school year one to remember—with fewer than 10 absences all year long!
Regular school attendance builds lifelong habits, keeps students on track academically, and helps them grow into successful, confident adults. We’re committed to supporting every student, every day—and we’re excited to roll out our year-long monthly incentives plan to keep the momentum going!
📅 Check out the flyer for all the details and join us in making attendance a priority. Let’s do this—together!
#AttendanceMatters #Under10ForTheWin #MiddleSchoolSuccess #EveryDayCounts
🎃 Scarecrow Alert on Main Street! 🏴☠️
Our Student Council and SOS program teamed up to decorate one of the Main Street light poles for October — and let’s just say, it’s a must-see! The theme? A Buccaneer-inspired Scarecrow “What’s Your Goal?” complete with little pumpkins holding signs of their goals. 🧡
Now, here’s the twist… we thought the scarecrow’s head was going to be a pumpkin. Spoiler alert: it’s not. And honestly? It’s hilariously perfect! 😂
You’ll find it right in front of the courthouse. There’s a tote next to the straw bales with a whiteboard and markers — write down your goal and snap a pic with Captain Leput Sparrow herself!
📸 Drop your photo in the comments of this post — we can’t wait to see your goals and your pirate poses!
Our Student Council and SOS program teamed up to decorate one of the Main Street light poles for October — and let’s just say, it’s a must-see! The theme? A Buccaneer-inspired Scarecrow “What’s Your Goal?” complete with little pumpkins holding signs of their goals. 🧡
Now, here’s the twist… we thought the scarecrow’s head was going to be a pumpkin. Spoiler alert: it’s not. And honestly? It’s hilariously perfect! 😂
You’ll find it right in front of the courthouse. There’s a tote next to the straw bales with a whiteboard and markers — write down your goal and snap a pic with Captain Leput Sparrow herself!
📸 Drop your photo in the comments of this post — we can’t wait to see your goals and your pirate poses!
Soup collected is used to support the Backpack program for Upshur County Schools. Soup is being collected at Kelly Tierney State Farm location on Main Street and B-UMS. Thank you for supporting the children of Upshur County Schools!
One of the many learning experiences students at B-UMS have while a student at our School. Mrs. Orr does a wonderful job with this project-and it taste good! #lifelonglearning #buckhannonwv #upshurcounty #CommunitySpirit #letsgobucs
B-UMS swept the middle school category at the Mountain State Forest Festival Art Show. Gunnar McNemar 1st, Leland Robinson 2nd, Trip Lewis 3rd and Everett Garver-Daniels received Honorable Mention. #buckhannonupshurmiddleschool #letsgobucs #communityspirit #community
Hello B-UMS families! Today your student was sent home with their picture order form. Pictures are October 10th, in the morning. Bring your smiles!
❗️B-UMS Winter Sports Announcement❗️🏴☠️ Please use the QR code or link below to sign up for a winter sport (boys basketball, girls basketball, boys wrestling, or girls wrestling)!
https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=S7AZ4AwzekaLrgn7FzdNaoTs6WvMSpxEizz1eOF-P5lUMEg4WUdBUkNGSVE5QzVSUk41NFMwT0RIWS4u&route=shorturl
First official day of practice/tryouts:
Girls Basketball - November 3
Boys Basketball, Boys Wrestling, & Girls Wrestling - November 10
Please follow this page for more updates and announcements from the coaches.
*You are still able to attend practice/tryouts without completing the signup.
Congratulations to our B-UMS Volleyball Team for winning the Neil & Esther Messenger Volleyball Tournament @ RCB! After 13+ hours, and some very tough competition, the Lady BUCS go home champions! 🏐🏆🥇
B-UMS Boys Basketball and siblings participated in The Parish House Hunger Walk Saturday Morning before practice. We had so many and they gave generously to the community! So proud of these kids!
Our B-UMS Wellness teachers are dedicated to helping students get healthier in Upshur County! Through an exciting partnership with Upshur County Commissioner Kristie Tenney and West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey, our students are taking part in the Mountaineer Mile every Tuesday and Thursday during Wellness class. Each session, students complete a 15-minute endurance run while tracking their laps using county technology.
We are thrilled to recognize our top three students for their amazing efforts so far:
🥇 Gunnar Claypool, 8th grade - 15.1 Miles
🥈 Emory Hall, 8th grade- 15 Miles
🥉 Will Frye, 8th grade- 13.5 Miles
Together, our 7th and 8th grade students have completed 1,784 miles this first semester – the distance from Upshur County to Thompson Springs, Utah! We can’t wait to welcome our 6th grade students into the program after their Health rotation next week!
Let’s keep moving, Buccaneers!
We are thrilled to recognize our top three students for their amazing efforts so far:
🥇 Gunnar Claypool, 8th grade - 15.1 Miles
🥈 Emory Hall, 8th grade- 15 Miles
🥉 Will Frye, 8th grade- 13.5 Miles
Together, our 7th and 8th grade students have completed 1,784 miles this first semester – the distance from Upshur County to Thompson Springs, Utah! We can’t wait to welcome our 6th grade students into the program after their Health rotation next week!
Let’s keep moving, Buccaneers!
Reminder, all Upshur County Schools will Dismiss at 12:45pm on Wednesday September, 17, 2025.
See flyer for the 4th Annual Girls In Aviation Day information.
