Our Big Step Forward! Notes from Fall 2022
Our Big Step Forward! Notes from Fall 2022

For those who have not yet heard the wonderfully exciting news, we’re thrilled to share that Peconic Community School is in contract to purchase the 10.2 acre Sacred Heart R.C. Church campus in downtown Cutchogue! The Board of PCS has been working to identify a permanent home for over ten years, so this marks a truly historic moment for the school.

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Celebration of Learning Winter 2022: Native American History and Culture
Celebration of Learning Winter 2022: Native American History and Culture

Our end of unit Celebrations of Learning give us a chance to observe a trimester’s worth of shared study in panorama: noting threads, perspectives, connections, and evolving understandings around a common topic.Through this Integrated Study Unit centered on Native American history and cultureand the people of the neighboring Shinnecock Nation, specifically, students and facilitators worked together to:

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Notes from Our Tenth Spring!
Notes from Our Tenth Spring!

很高兴写信给你从一个地方of joyful anticipation and hope as the winter months wind down and the longer, warmer days of spring approach. It is with sincere gratitude for the support, cooperation and inspiration …

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Grad/Alum Night 2021!
Grad/Alum Night 2021!

Thanks to all of the Grads/Alums 12 and up who helped us celebrate PCS’s 10th Anniversary school year with a very special Grad/Alum Night! We loved seeing you all together again!

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Greetings from Year Ten!
Greetings from Year Ten!

Greetings from Year Ten! We write to you today hardly able to believe we are 10 years in! Yet here we are, amidst two vibrant campuses, humming with the projects, inquiries and explorations of nearly 115 students and over 25 faculty and staff …

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Notes from the Field: Remote Learning
Notes from the Field: Remote Learning

Over the past two and a half weeks, as we’ve coped with the rapidly-changing realities of life during the COVID-19 crisis, we have witnessed tremendous resilience, determination, flexibility and compassion in our PCS community. And, the spirit of care and connection fostered by our collective efforts to carry on in the face of profound challenge and uncertainty is helping us realize just how much community matters to learning at PCS.

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Fight for the Climate Rally
Fight for the Climate Rally

Upper Primary student, Lea Rodger, organized and led a “Fight for the Climate” rally in downtown Riverhead this past weekend to make a stand for our planet. More than fifty people joined her with signs and songs to raise they’re voices for our one planet.

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Teacher Profile Series: Shannon Timoney
Teacher Profile Series: Shannon Timoney

When students at PCS reach Upper Primary they are ready to take the lead in their learning, pave their own way, and make their ideas come to life. For a teacher, letting go and letting students lead can be uncomfortable, but Shannon Timoney, PCS’s Upper Primary facilitator, believes this is when the best learning happens: when we’re uncomfortable, when we let go, dive in, ask hard questions and let the answers surprise us.

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Celebration of Learning Fall 2019, Civics: Communities and Citizens in Action
Celebration of Learning Fall 2019, Civics: Communities and Citizens in Action

Our end of unit Celebrations of Learning give us a chance to observe a trimester’s worth of shared study in panorama: noting threads, perspectives, connections, and evolving understandings around a common topic. This Integrated Study Unit — Civics: Communities and Citizens in Action — challenged students todiscover how citizens organize and act to achieve community goals.

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上主公民研究:Confronting Injustice
上主公民研究:Confronting Injustice

During the Celebration of Learning culminating the “Civics: Communities and Citizens in Action” Unit, Upper Primary students documented their research about structural racism, the civic activism it has inspired, and the persistence of injustice in our democracy.

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Teacher Profile Series: Paola Flórez
Teacher Profile Series: Paola Flórez

Kindergarten is a magical and monumental time at PCS. Children are growing into their backpacks and the longer days and the school routines and their independence. It’s exciting to celebrate their bravery and accomplishments, but it’s also an honor to hold space for their sweet littleness. There’s an ebb and flow of venturing out and seeking shelter that is at the heart of this time of tremendous social, emotional and cognitive development, and we can think of no one more uniquely suited to working alongside Kindergarten students than Paola Flórez.

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