East End Beacon covers PCS’s presentation of the school’s plans for the new downtown Cutchogue campus, slated to open Fall 2023. The school’s founders, sisters Liz Casey Searl and Kathryn Casey Quigley, gave an overview of their plans to the Cutchogue Civic Association at the Civic Association’s inaugural meeting, before a packed house at the Cutchogue-New Suffolk Library Nov. 28.
Read more:“Peconic Community School Plans to Grow in Cutchogue,” East End Beacon, December 3, 2022.
The Suffolk Times covers PCS co-founders’ and co-directors’ Liz Casey Searl’s and Kathryn Casey Quigley’s recent presentation to the Cutchogue Civic Association regarding the school’s plans for the soon-to-be-acquired Sacred Heart campus on Main Road in Cutchogue. The sisters were warmly received with excitement and enthusiasm by the nearly fifty person crowd at Cutchogue New Suffolk Library.
Check out PCS’s feature in Independent School Magazine, published by the National Association of Independent Schools. PCS is profiled in the article about small school sustainability. Co-director Kathryn Casey Quigley discusses PCS’s strategies for maintaining accessibility, securing quality faculty and promoting growth.Read more:“The Sustainability of Small Schools,” Independent School, Fall 2022.
Video feature about PCS’s Wellness Facilitator, Jovan Booker, and his path to the 2022 Amputee Soccer World Cup tournament in Turkey.
Cofounder and co-director Liz Casey Searl was live in conversation with local bloggers Sunita of @nofostyle, Kelly of @nofoendlesssummer and Tracy of @ms.tracykessler about the history, approach and future of Peconic Community School, as well as living and learning on the East End of Long Island. Friday, September 30, 2022.
Watch the replay here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh6ihdzGkqk
“Peconic Community School is in contract to purchase the 10.2 acre Sacred Heart R.C. Church campus in Cutchogue, the school announced. The private school which educates more than 100 students in pre-K through 8th grade, intends to make the new property its permanent home beginning in fall 2023.“Read more at: Suffolk Times: “Peconic Community School to Purchase Sacred Heart Campus in Cutchogue.”
PCS Upper Primary journalists are back at it again! For their second feature in The Northforker, UP writers offer support and suggestions to other kids coping with social distancing on the North Fork. Check it out below:
阅读更多:The Northforker: “Kids’ Advice for Making the Most of Social Distancing,” May 2, 2020.
PCS co-director Liz Casey Searl authored a Guest Column in The Suffolk Times in which she talks about the challenges of raising "Screenagers," and our imperative responsibility as parents and educators to teach children online citizenry.
"Technology is here to stay," Liz writes, "and is a tool with many benefits and advantages for adults and young people alike. But its very power is what makes our responsibility to prepare and supervise our children that much more urgent."
Liz introduces PCS's digital citizenry initiative and invites the community to join us at PCS for a viewing of "SCREENAGERS: Growing Up in the Digital Age," March 27th at 7pm.
"We spend our children’s early years helping them learn how to share, how to be kind, how to use good manners and how to help others," Liz writes. "We now need to teach our kids how to apply these very same ideas to their digital life. We owe it to them to help them learn these skills and we owe it to society at large."
阅读更多:The Suffolk Times, “The Challenge of Raising "‘Screenagers,’” February 23, 2020.
Have you been looking for a great place to eat on the North Fork that both you and your kids can love?
Who better to ask for a review about family-friendly restaurants than kids themselves?
There are many great restaurants to eat at on the North Fork, but students at Peconic Community School in Aquebogue rounded up four favorites that are hits with both grownups and kids.
Here’s what they had to say, in their own words.
read more:The northforker: “Kids Share Their Favorite North Fork Restaurants,” January 15, 2020.
Around age 5, Lea Rodger of Greenport, now 11, would tell anyone she ran into that she would be an entomologist when she grew up. People would be like, ‘How does she know that word?’ ” her mother, Danielle Rodger, recalled. “Lea has always been very connected with the environment — with nature, animals.” The environmentally conscious sixth-grader has organized “Fight for the Climate,” a Riverhead protest to raise awareness and promote climate action. It will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, outside the Long Island Aquarium.
阅读更多:The Suffolk Times: “Sixth Grader Organizes ‘Fight for the Climate’ Rally in Riverhead, January 9, 2020.
PCS facilitator Shannon Timoney authors a guest column in The Suffolk Times about the response she has seen in her Upper Primary students after their recent challenging work confronting Long Island’s history with enslavement.
Read more at:“Learning and caring go hand in had,” The Suffolk TimesNovember 9, 2019.
“Students from Peconic Community School in Aquebogue celebrated International Day of Peace on September 21 by asking themselves, “What is peace?” The school’s Upper Primary class pondered the meaning of peace and wrote their thoughts about it on photographs of their hands creating the peace sign.”
阅读更多:The Independent: “Peace Happens” at PCS, September 25, 2018.
PCS will honor Joe Mc Kay at their annual event,SHARE: Building Community Through Scholarship on August 12th at Hallockville Museum Farm.Tickets are $150 and go towards providing scholarships for students at the school.
Long-time PCS friend, advisor and supporter, Joe Mc Kay is also a community leader, teacher, writer, speaker and advocate for life-long education and the environment. Joe has lived on the North Fork for 35 years, having moved here full time after retiring in 1993. Joe is an activist in the community, and has become a great friend and leader, not only to PCS, but to countless people and organizations across the East End.
Peconic Community School is thrilled to be honoring Joe because his work, his values and his approach to living on the East End align so perfectly with Peconic Community School’s mission and vision. We look forward to celebrating him alongside many of his friends and family not only for his support of PCS, but for his exemplary leadership on the North Fork, and for modeling a life of constant learning and humble citizenship.
阅读更多:Press Release: Joe Mc Kay to be Honored at 2018 SHARE:Building Community Through Scholarship.
"There aren’t many alternatives to the public schools on the North Fork. Until 2012, when the世界杯2022年c罗opened, there were only a few private options, all of them with religious affiliations.
Liz Casey Searl, who grew up in Mattituck, a town halfway between Riverhead and Greenport, started the school with her sister and another local parent when her own children were school age. 'It’s not that the public schools aren’t good,” she said. “It’s just that some of us wanted something different.'”
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The New York Times: When the Weekend House Becomes a Full-Time Home, November 24, 2017.
"Third-grade students on the North Fork have become “crazy about words” thanks to a collaborative program between Peconic Landing residents and local citizens that gifts children with a personalized dictionary.
More than 420 third-grade students at 10 schools from Aquebogue to Shelter Island will get a copy of A Student’s Dictionary and Gazetteer this year thanks to Peconic Landing resident Joe McKay, who coordinated the effort."
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Southold Local: Peconic Landing Group Donates Dictionaries to North Fork Students, December 14, 2017.
"My name is Paola Florez and I am a co-teacher for early childhood. I’m also the Spanish teacher for the entire school, so that would be early childhood through sixth grade, at Peconic Community School.
There’s no typical day, really. My routine would be, before the children come in, to come into the classroom and set it up. Throughout the day it’s really a matter of attending and supporting the children’s needs and their journey through discovery."
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河源新闻评论:我们所做的工作:Paola凝花z, Peconic Community School, September 17, 2018.
"The Peconic Community School held their second annual Maker’s Fair, a family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, on March 25.
Weaving through the Aquebogue school building from surprise to surprise, through environments of ideas and play, each individual booth was run by somebody who came there because they loved what they did."
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East End Beacon: Peconic Community School Meets the Makers, March 30, 2017
"All summer Shinn Estate Vineyards is offering local kids a little less screen-time, a little more green-time.
When it comes to kid-friendly places on the East End, vineyards rarely make the list. Starting this season, however,Shinn Estate Vineyardsin Mattituck is working to change that. Over the course of six Sundays this summer, the vineyard will present Vine-tastic!, its new youth and family programming designed to engage children and their families while fundraising for the世界杯2022年c罗."
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Edible East End: Kid Programming on a Vineyard? Vine-tastic News from Shinn Estate, June 7, 2016.
"The Peconic Community School held its first-ever Maker Faire last Saturday, March
12.
Hundreds of people gathered in the gymnasium of the
Riverhead Charter School in Calverton to build, play, create, learn, innovate and engage in all things Maker.
The PCS Maker Faire was a Mini Faire, part of an international movement of Maker Faires, which create opportunities for conversations with Makers. Tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers, science clubs, authors, artists, students, and entrepreneurs all come together to show their projects and to talk about what they have learned. It is a community-based learning event designed to inspire everyone to become a maker."
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East End Beacon: North Fork School Fosters a Community of Makers, March 18, 2016
“Peconic着陆社区的学生the North Fork’s Peconic Community School got a rare treat Wednesday, when the Colombian dance group El Colegio del Cuerpo spent the day working with the students and seniors on a collaborative dance project, capped with an improvisational dance performance in response to Peconic Landing’s sculpture garden."
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东区:灯塔Peconic着陆哒y of Dance, Sculpture, and Intergenerational Education, September 22, 2016.
