Planning a trip or scheduling doctor appointments this school year? Our vacation planner is here to help! Use it to plan trips and make appointments around school breaks and early release days to help minimize absences and support your student's success!
Remember, every school day counts! Consistent attendance is critical to student success, so we encourage families to schedule vacations and appointments during school breaks whenever possible!
Remember, every school day counts! Consistent attendance is critical to student success, so we encourage families to schedule vacations and appointments during school breaks whenever possible!
Stay Connected with the HERD! 🦬
A new school year is almost here, and we want to make it easy for every Bison family to stay informed!
From important announcements and reminders to athletic updates, student celebrations, and school events, we share information in several places so you never miss what's happening at Buffalo Middle School.
Be sure to connect with us by:
🌐 Visiting our school website
📱 Joining Remind
📘 Following our Facebook pages
🎓 Joining the BMS News Group on Schoology
📸 Following us on Instagram
Our new "Stay Connected with the HERD" guide has everything you need in one convenient place! Save it, share it, and keep it handy throughout the school year.
We believe strong communication between school and home helps our students thrive. Thank you for partnering with us as we make this an incredible year for every member of the HERD!
#BuffaloMiddleSchool #BeHERDStrong #BMSFamily #StayConnected #FutureReady #BisonPride
A new school year is almost here, and we want to make it easy for every Bison family to stay informed!
From important announcements and reminders to athletic updates, student celebrations, and school events, we share information in several places so you never miss what's happening at Buffalo Middle School.
Be sure to connect with us by:
🌐 Visiting our school website
📱 Joining Remind
📘 Following our Facebook pages
🎓 Joining the BMS News Group on Schoology
📸 Following us on Instagram
Our new "Stay Connected with the HERD" guide has everything you need in one convenient place! Save it, share it, and keep it handy throughout the school year.
We believe strong communication between school and home helps our students thrive. Thank you for partnering with us as we make this an incredible year for every member of the HERD!
#BuffaloMiddleSchool #BeHERDStrong #BMSFamily #StayConnected #FutureReady #BisonPride
📚 Beginning-of-the-Year Paperwork is Coming Home This Week! 📝
Families, be on the lookout for a paperwork packet coming home with your student this week! There are several important forms included, along with helpful informational handouts. Please take a few minutes to look through everything and return the forms that require a signature or information.
🌈 FORMS TO REVIEW & RETURN
🟢 **Emergency Procedure Form (Green)**
Please check your student’s information on the **back** of the form for accuracy and completely fill out the **front**.
🟡 **AUP Form (Yellow)**
This form must be completed and returned before your student can use devices at school.
🤍 **Health History (Buff)**
Please complete the form and return it to school.
🩷 **Dress Code (Pink)**
Please review, sign, and return.
💜 **Cell Phone Policy (Purple)**
Please review, sign, and return.
🟠 **Verification of Receipt (Orange)**
Please sign and return.
🧡 **Survey Participation Consent (Salmon)**
Please complete this form to let us know whether you give permission or do not give permission for your student to participate.
🩶 **Directory Information (Grey)**
Please complete the form and choose **ONE option** regarding permission for directory information and media release.
💙 **Parent Involvement (Blue)**
We ❤️ our school volunteers! Please complete the front and back if you are able to help us this year.
💻 **Schoology Sign-Up Page**
If your child does not already have a parent Schoology account linked to them, you will receive a page containing your access code. Please create your parent account ASAP, so you can stay connected!
🐂 **HERD Attendance Tracker — KEEP AT HOME**
Hang this up somewhere visible and use it to keep track of absences throughout the school year. Our goal is 9 absences or fewer! You can also use the QR code on the tracker to submit parent/doctor notes when absences occur.
📖 INFORMATIONAL HANDOUTS — PLEASE READ & KEEP
You’ll also find several resources in your student’s packet. These are informational and do not need to be signed or returned. We encourage families to read through them and keep them for reference.
🎯 Attendance Matters: A Guide to Prevent Chronic Absenteeism & Truancy
This handout explains why regular attendance is so important for student success. It includes information about chronic absenteeism, attendance expectations, and truancy, along with practical ways families can help students maintain good attendance.
It also includes tips such as establishing good routines, scheduling appointments outside the school day when possible, staying in communication with the school, and reaching out when your child needs additional support.
📈 MTSS/WVTSS Family Notification
This handout explains our Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS/WVTSS). Schools use screenings, assessments, classroom performance, and other information to identify students who may benefit from additional academic, behavioral, or social-emotional support.
The system includes three levels:
• Tier 1: High-quality core instruction for all students
• Tier 2: Targeted support for specific areas of need
• Tier 3: More intensive support when additional intervention is needed
Families are important partners throughout this process and can contact the school with questions or concerns about their child’s progress.
🏠 McKinney-Vento: Support for Students Experiencing Homelessness or Housing Instability
This handout explains important rights, protections, and resources available to students and families experiencing homelessness or uncertain housing.
This can include families living temporarily with others, staying in a hotel/motel or shelter, living in housing without basic utilities, or experiencing other situations where they do not have a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.
The handout includes information about school enrollment, transportation, meals, tutoring, extracurricular activities, school supplies, and other available supports. Families who believe they may qualify are encouraged to reach out to school staff or Wayne County Schools for confidential assistance.
📌 A quick reminder:
Some items in the packet need to be completed and returned, while the informational handouts are yours to read and keep. Please look through the entire packet so you don’t miss anything that requires your attention.
Thank you for helping us start the school year organized, informed, and ready to go! 💙📚🐂
Families, be on the lookout for a paperwork packet coming home with your student this week! There are several important forms included, along with helpful informational handouts. Please take a few minutes to look through everything and return the forms that require a signature or information.
🌈 FORMS TO REVIEW & RETURN
🟢 **Emergency Procedure Form (Green)**
Please check your student’s information on the **back** of the form for accuracy and completely fill out the **front**.
🟡 **AUP Form (Yellow)**
This form must be completed and returned before your student can use devices at school.
🤍 **Health History (Buff)**
Please complete the form and return it to school.
🩷 **Dress Code (Pink)**
Please review, sign, and return.
💜 **Cell Phone Policy (Purple)**
Please review, sign, and return.
🟠 **Verification of Receipt (Orange)**
Please sign and return.
🧡 **Survey Participation Consent (Salmon)**
Please complete this form to let us know whether you give permission or do not give permission for your student to participate.
🩶 **Directory Information (Grey)**
Please complete the form and choose **ONE option** regarding permission for directory information and media release.
💙 **Parent Involvement (Blue)**
We ❤️ our school volunteers! Please complete the front and back if you are able to help us this year.
💻 **Schoology Sign-Up Page**
If your child does not already have a parent Schoology account linked to them, you will receive a page containing your access code. Please create your parent account ASAP, so you can stay connected!
🐂 **HERD Attendance Tracker — KEEP AT HOME**
Hang this up somewhere visible and use it to keep track of absences throughout the school year. Our goal is 9 absences or fewer! You can also use the QR code on the tracker to submit parent/doctor notes when absences occur.
📖 INFORMATIONAL HANDOUTS — PLEASE READ & KEEP
You’ll also find several resources in your student’s packet. These are informational and do not need to be signed or returned. We encourage families to read through them and keep them for reference.
🎯 Attendance Matters: A Guide to Prevent Chronic Absenteeism & Truancy
This handout explains why regular attendance is so important for student success. It includes information about chronic absenteeism, attendance expectations, and truancy, along with practical ways families can help students maintain good attendance.
It also includes tips such as establishing good routines, scheduling appointments outside the school day when possible, staying in communication with the school, and reaching out when your child needs additional support.
📈 MTSS/WVTSS Family Notification
This handout explains our Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS/WVTSS). Schools use screenings, assessments, classroom performance, and other information to identify students who may benefit from additional academic, behavioral, or social-emotional support.
The system includes three levels:
• Tier 1: High-quality core instruction for all students
• Tier 2: Targeted support for specific areas of need
• Tier 3: More intensive support when additional intervention is needed
Families are important partners throughout this process and can contact the school with questions or concerns about their child’s progress.
🏠 McKinney-Vento: Support for Students Experiencing Homelessness or Housing Instability
This handout explains important rights, protections, and resources available to students and families experiencing homelessness or uncertain housing.
This can include families living temporarily with others, staying in a hotel/motel or shelter, living in housing without basic utilities, or experiencing other situations where they do not have a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.
The handout includes information about school enrollment, transportation, meals, tutoring, extracurricular activities, school supplies, and other available supports. Families who believe they may qualify are encouraged to reach out to school staff or Wayne County Schools for confidential assistance.
📌 A quick reminder:
Some items in the packet need to be completed and returned, while the informational handouts are yours to read and keep. Please look through the entire packet so you don’t miss anything that requires your attention.
Thank you for helping us start the school year organized, informed, and ready to go! 💙📚🐂
AUGUST 26 ELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOLS MENU
THANK YOU PARENTS AND COMMUNITY
Highlighting our Support Staff!
PARENTS - You will enter the driveway as you did before. You WILL NOT go to the Parent Loop that we used last year. You will drive on the pavement along the fence to the school. You will drop your child off at the sidewalk and do a U turn through the gravel to go back out the driveway.
WHERE DO I GO THE FIRST DAY???
STAFF PARKING - Please read thoroughly! I tried to anticipate EVERY question! 😂 If I have missed one, just let me know! I look forward to seeing you on Monday.
7th & 12th Grade Shot Requirements - You must have these prior starting school in 7th & 12th Graders.
6th Grade Orientation Parking!
6th grade orientation reminder: pick up at 1 pm will be over at the BMS football field!
Tomorrow, August 6th, is our 6th grade orientation!
Drop off will be in the gravel lot at the school at 9 AM and pick up will be over at the BMS football field at 1 PM. We will serve them lunch, and they will learn about BMS, meet their teachers, and socialize with their friends!
Then, tomorrow night, at 6 pm, return to the school for a family orientation! New families to our school are also welcome to attend!
Drop off will be in the gravel lot at the school at 9 AM and pick up will be over at the BMS football field at 1 PM. We will serve them lunch, and they will learn about BMS, meet their teachers, and socialize with their friends!
Then, tomorrow night, at 6 pm, return to the school for a family orientation! New families to our school are also welcome to attend!
7th Grade Vaccine Addendum: We still have incoming seventh grade students who have not turned in their vaccination records. Until we receive records, those students are not allowed to participate in any school sanctioned extra-curricular activities or attend school. Please make sure you get us a copy before next Thursday. You can submit your records by bringing them by the school, faxing them to us (304-429-7245), or emailing to our school nurse, Carrie Perry (carrie.perry@k12.wv.us). If you need to check to see if your student is missing their record, you can give us a call at the school tomorrow between 9-2.
Back-to-School Health Reminder! 💙
As we prepare for a great school year, here are a few important reminders from the school nurse:
💊 Medications at School
Students taking medication during the school day must have new physician orders for the 2026–2027 school year.
A parent or guardian must bring all medications to the school office. Please do not send medications in your child's backpack.
Students who require emergency medications (EpiPens, seizure medications, inhalers, etc.) must have both a current doctor's order and their medication at school on or before the first day of school.
🩺 Incoming 7th Grade Families
West Virginia state law requires all students entering 7th grade to have:
✔️ TDAP Booster
✔️ MCV4 (Meningococcal) Vaccine
Please submit an updated immunization record before the start of school. Records may be dropped off, faxed, or emailed to carrie.perry@k12.wv.us.
📅 Help us make the first day of school safe and successful by completing these health requirements before school begins!
#BackToSchool #SchoolHealth #StudentSafety #7thGrade #Immunizations #MedicationReminder #SchoolNurse #ReadyForSchool
As we prepare for a great school year, here are a few important reminders from the school nurse:
💊 Medications at School
Students taking medication during the school day must have new physician orders for the 2026–2027 school year.
A parent or guardian must bring all medications to the school office. Please do not send medications in your child's backpack.
Students who require emergency medications (EpiPens, seizure medications, inhalers, etc.) must have both a current doctor's order and their medication at school on or before the first day of school.
🩺 Incoming 7th Grade Families
West Virginia state law requires all students entering 7th grade to have:
✔️ TDAP Booster
✔️ MCV4 (Meningococcal) Vaccine
Please submit an updated immunization record before the start of school. Records may be dropped off, faxed, or emailed to carrie.perry@k12.wv.us.
📅 Help us make the first day of school safe and successful by completing these health requirements before school begins!
#BackToSchool #SchoolHealth #StudentSafety #7thGrade #Immunizations #MedicationReminder #SchoolNurse #ReadyForSchool
The county is implementing multiple new features this year which require us to have families’ cell phone numbers in our system. Please complete the form using the QR code below or the link to update our information. https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/wxek7nziJF
6TH GRADE ORIENTATION
Wayne County virtual school enrollment for this school year is open until this Friday, August 7th at noon. You can access the registration form by using the QR code on the attached photo or clicking this link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=S7AZ4AwzekaLrgn7FzdNaqOHD6gCMPZFiFYtKT39gsBUQ1ozTkNESjhTODRQQU03R0MyVTlOMjRDUC4u&origin=QRCode&route=shorturl
6th Grade Orientation is This Week! 🦬
We can't wait to welcome our newest Buffalo Middle School Bison!
🎉 6th Grade Orientation
📅 Thursday, August 6
🕘 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
🌭 Lunch will be provided
During orientation, students will:
✅ Get to know their new school
✅ Reconnect with friends
✅ Get a head start before the school year begins
Parent Information:
🚗 Drop-off: 9:00 AM in the gravel lot
🏈 Pick-up: 1:00 PM at the BMS football field behind the old Buffalo High School
❤️ Please let us know at drop-off if your child has any medical conditions, allergies, medications, or other health information we should be aware of during orientation.
👨👩👧 Family Orientation
🕕 August 6 at 6:00 PM
This is a great opportunity to learn about Buffalo Middle School, meet our staff, and prepare for an exciting school year. We look forward to seeing all of our new 6th grade students and their families!
#BuffaloMiddleSchool #BuffaloBison #6thGradeOrientation #BisonPride #BackToSchool
We can't wait to welcome our newest Buffalo Middle School Bison!
🎉 6th Grade Orientation
📅 Thursday, August 6
🕘 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
🌭 Lunch will be provided
During orientation, students will:
✅ Get to know their new school
✅ Reconnect with friends
✅ Get a head start before the school year begins
Parent Information:
🚗 Drop-off: 9:00 AM in the gravel lot
🏈 Pick-up: 1:00 PM at the BMS football field behind the old Buffalo High School
❤️ Please let us know at drop-off if your child has any medical conditions, allergies, medications, or other health information we should be aware of during orientation.
👨👩👧 Family Orientation
🕕 August 6 at 6:00 PM
This is a great opportunity to learn about Buffalo Middle School, meet our staff, and prepare for an exciting school year. We look forward to seeing all of our new 6th grade students and their families!
#BuffaloMiddleSchool #BuffaloBison #6thGradeOrientation #BisonPride #BackToSchool
🍎 Every Child Deserves the Opportunity to Succeed
Did you know that under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, children and youth experiencing housing instability have educational rights and support available?
Housing instability may include: 🏠 Living with another family due to hardship 🏨 Staying in a hotel or motel 🚗 Living in a vehicle or campground 🏚️ Living in inadequate housing or without utilities 🛋️ Staying with friends or relatives because there is nowhere else to go.
If your family—or a family you know—is facing one of these situations, please know you are not alone, and help is available.
Our goal is simple: to ensure every child has the opportunity to attend school, succeed, and thrive—regardless of their housing situation.
Please don't hesitate to reach out to the Wayne County Schools Office of Attendance & Student Support Services using the contact information on the flyer.
If you have questions or would like assistance with the process, you are also welcome to contact our Buffalo Middle School Social Worker, Julia Dean, MSW, LSW at (304) 429-6062 (Ext.190) or julia.dean@k12.wv.us.
We are here to help, and all conversations are handled with care, compassion, and confidentiality.
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