About
Watkins Middle School
8868 Watkins Rd, Pataskala, Oh 43062
Phone: (740) 927-5767
Attendance: (740) 927-6807
Fax: (740) 927-2337
WMS Students Embrace the "Warrior Way"
6th grade Humanities students participating in a surgical "transformation", designed to engage students in the lesson.
An 8th grade student shares her Columbian heritage with Spanish 1 students in a language immersion experience.
Students at WMS have the opportunity to explore musical performance through choir, orchestra, and band classes.
7th & 8th grade students have the opportunity take a intro to theater elective to explore their performance interests
During earth week all students and staff participated in a combination of environmental centered activities. Students here cleaned up the building by picking up trash outside of the building.
Our annual Science fair was expanded to include all grades this year. Award winning projects can be seen here.
One of our PBL centered electives is Environmental Sustainability. Students can be seen here tapping tree sap for collection for cooking.
Another picture of students tapping trees for sap collection. Students can take an Ag class each year at WMS prior to entering the high school pathway.
Another "transformation" activity. This time students were engaged as FBI crime scene investigators.
WMS host a series of building wide PBIS incentives such as 3 v 3 basketball tournaments, dodgeball, kickball, movie incentives, and a host of other activities!
WMS is blessed to be supported by a great PTO. Each quarter the PTO provides ice cream sundaes for those students earning an honor roll designation.
Giving back to our community is a major focus for WMS students. WMS invited students from all three Elementary schools at SWL to participate in a variety of educational based activities throughout the year.
Students in Honors ELA use some of their PBL skills to develop models of homes associated with an Edgar Allen Poe poem.
On the road to college and career readiness WMS has worked to provide each student a college experience opportunity. All seventh graders travel to OSU Newark to learn about OSU & COTC academic requirements.
More Positive Behavior incentives! Students earned opportunities to access coffee, ice cream, and food trucks throughout the year for meeting behavioral expectations throughout the year!
Our annual Math night is one of the most well attend community events of the year. Parents and students navigate sets of challenges and activities to hone their Math skills.
WMS is thankful for business partnerships with community organizations like Ox-B's, Jersey Mike's, Drip Dreams, Mr. Game room, Porters coffee house, Branham signs, Capuanos Pizza, and a host of other local organizations that work with our school
WMS believes in developing students collaborative learning experiences. 8th grade students here are dissecting arguments as a part of reading works like twelve angry men.
What's not to love about some valentines alliterations? Students in creative writing put their best love languages to the test.
Food truckarama! Students in Mrs. Karpuz's AFNR & Advanced Environmental sustainability classes designed new aged food trucks and crafted some delectable treats as a part of their business proposals.
Each year our Ag program has a community flower sale leading up to mothers day. All proceeds go to the Ag program.
Another Ag program fundraiser came this year in the form of a fall festival. An animal farm, Halloween treats, and other student produced items were crafted for fundraising purposes.
Some student created sidewalk art as a part of our earth day celebrations this year.
WMS has a student ran newspaper called the "Warrior Press". Each month students interview, write, and publish stories associated with the on-goings of WMS.
The inaugural "Culture Night" celebrated the food, music, dance and heritage of our WMS students of Nepalese, Columbian, Mexican, Turkish, and a host of other backgrounds.
In conjunction with our WMS culture night the WMS Art department also put on our first "Black light Art show". The amazing imagery was themed as an under the sea experience.
Force and motion comes alive in a pbl roller coaster design challenge for sixth grade Science.
Administrative Staff
Principal
Mr. Ball
jball@swls.us
Assistant Principal
Mrs. Keller
mkeller@swls.us
Assistant Principal
Mr. Hare
share@swls.us
Dean of Students
Mrs. Kalina
vkalina@swls.us
Secretary
Mrs. Nation
wms@swls.us
Secretary
Mrs. Hickman
wms@swls.us