R.H. Gettys Middle School

This past week, the Quarter 2 Flight & Space students were busy applying their learning about air pressure and Bernoulli’s Principle of Air Flow with straws, ping pong balls, and ...

For the past week, Medical Detective students have been exploring microscopic evidence with the use of digital microscopes. Our junior detectives had the opportunity to exam a var...

The 6th grade team has put together some great tips to help keep your children engaged with reading throughout the holidays! Tune in with this link: https://drive.google.com/f...

Dear Parent, As we plan ahead for the 2022-2023 school year , applications are now open for the School District of Pickens County's Special Choice Programs : Central Academy...

Mrs. Beacham's and Mrs. Rodriguez's 7th grade classes went out to the football field today to do an escape room on theme and point of view. The kids completed 5 levels in each cat...

6th grade writers were on parade today at GMS! Our 6th grade ELA teachers used the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as a short unit of study to teach writing an objective summary. S...

Congratulations to all the the GMS students who participated with the Easley HS band at Grand Nationals! Easley finished their season with a stellar performance at Nationals that ...

We're excited to announce our Red Ribbon Week door decorating contest winners! This year's theme is "Drug Free Looks Like Me," and there were many outstanding entries. Here are th...

Monday, November 1, 2021 - No School As scheduled on the 2021-22 school calendar, there will be no school on Monday, November 1, 2021 . Enjoy the long weekend! 🎃 🍁 🍂

GMS is proud to announce a quarterly writing contest called, “Dr. Roach’s All-Star Writers!” All 7 th grade academic teachers may submit exemplary student work to Dr. Roach, who ...

Ingles and WYFF News 4 want to reward the teachers who are going above and beyond. Each week, an area teacher will be selected to receive the Golden Apple Award and profiled Thurs...

During today’s State Board of Education meeting, five South Carolina educators were recognized for being named as finalists for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathemati...

As we begin our 6th week of school this week, we would like to provide the schedule for our next 3 weeks. We shared with you on 8/19/21 that as a result of the current health chal...

The South Carolina Department of Education announced that school districts must again enforce the CDC’s order to require masks on school buses. Beginning Monday, August 30, ...

7th grade teacher Kimberly Brummitt recently showed us that teaching is more than lessons, notes or tests when she performed the Heimlich maneuver on a student who was choking in ...

Due to the unexpected spread of COVID-19 in our schools, the School District of Pickens will move all in-person students to TEMPORARY VIRTUAL LEARNING (Remote Learning) from Mo...

Dr. Yemothy has been named one of only 79 PLTW teachers across the U.S. to earn the 2021-22 PLTW Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award! Last school year pushed educators across t...

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