Bridgeport Middle

Congrats to all! BMS is 2008-2009 WVDE Exemplary School! Way To Go!

413 Johnson Avenue
Bridgeport, WV 26330
304-326-7142
Fax - 304-842-6275

2008-2009 WV Exemplary School!
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     Welcome to Bridgeport Middle School
We are located in Bridgeport, West Virginia, a small city in Harrison County in the north central portion of the state. Our school facility, completed in the spring of 1995, houses grades 6-8 with an enrollment of approximately 600 students. Following the middle school concept, each grade level, which has 2 teams per grade, has a designated pod of classrooms, computer lab, and specified teams of teachers.

     In addition to the basic skills teachers and classes, students have the opportunity to participate in Related Arts classes such as Art, B.A.S.E., Research, Computer Applications, General Music, Technology Education, Band, Strings, F.L.E.X (Foreign Language Exploratory), Physical Education and Health and Academic Enrichment.  There is a full-time guidance counselor on site and an assigned school nurse is available weekly.

     A technology-rich environment, BMS offers students access to computers in all classrooms as well as seven computer labs, which are maintained by an on-site technology coordinator. The library/media center is under the supervision of a full-time library/media specialist.

     BMS offers a variety of sports for students' participation. We have a football team, volleyball team, track/cross-country team, girls softball team, girls and boys basketball teams, danceline, and cheerleading team. A full-time Athletic Director oversees all of these events.

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Picturing America!

     The Bridgeport Middle School library has received a grant, Picturing America, from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each week a new piece of American art will be featured. The posters can be seen outside of the library.
     Great art speaks powerfully, inspires fresh thinking, and connects us to our past.
     Picturing America brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of its art.
     The nation’s artistic heritage—our paintings, sculpture, architecture, fine crafts, and photography—offers unique insights into the character, ideals, and aspirations of our country.
     Picturing America, a far-reaching new program from the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association, brings this vital heritage to all Americans.
     By bringing high-quality reproductions of notable American art into public and private schools, libraries, and communities, Picturing America gives participants the opportunity to learn about our nation’s history and culture in a fresh and engaging way. The program uses art as a catalyst for the study of America—the cultural, political, and historical threads woven into our nation’s fabric over time.

About Picturing America from Humanities, September/October 2007, Volume 28/Number 5



Week of November 24

Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

House by the Railroad 1925 (oil on canvas)

As the railroad tracks rattle by a once-grand Victorian home, so intersect the themes of modern progress and historical continuity. The painting’s bleakness suggests that Edward Hopper found little to celebrate in America’s post-World War I urbanization. Believing that American art should capture the character of the nation, Hopper rejected European influences and instead chose to depict the modern life around him. He is known for his unsentimental depictions of urban isolation, solitary buildings, and commonplace landscapes