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eNews from Peekskill Schools
July 25, 2018
Peekskill City School District: Every Student, Every Day
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School Resumes
Pre-K - Grade 12
Thursday, September 6, 2018
View our complete District calendar
here.
Red Devils fans, view our athletic schedule
here.
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Congratulations, 2018 Graduates!
Congratulations to all of our recent graduates! We celebrate your hard work and dedication! See below for photo albums from our Uriah Hill, PKMS and PHS graduation ceremonies.
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PCSD Graduation Photos
Check out our photo albums from the following Peekskill City School District graduation ceremonies:
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At our July 3 Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Dr. David Mauricio, and newly elected Board members Mrs. Pamela Hallman-Johnson and Mr. Allen Jenkins, Jr. were sworn into office. We welcome them and congratulate Mr. Michael Simpkins and Mrs. Maria Pereira on their appointments as Board President (Mr. Simpkins) and Vice President (Mrs. Pereira).
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With summer well underway we take a moment to look back at those PCSD faculty and staff members who recently celebrated their retirement at the end of the 2017-2018 school year. We thank them for their years of dedication and service to our schools and our children. We also congratulate those members of the PCSD family that recently received tenure and we wish them the best as they continue their careers.
Click here for a complete list of those honored at our June 5 Board of E
ducation meeting and photos from the event.
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Come have lunch with us! The Peekskill City School District is serving FREE summer meals to ALL children in the community ages 18 and younger. The program runs every Monday-Thursday from 11 a.m - 1 p.m until August 9, 2018. No registration necessary! Open locations are as follow:
Peekskill High School
Dunbar Heights
Kiley Youth Center
This FREE program is open to all children in the community 18 and younger.
For more information call:
(914) 737-0201 ext. 322.
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*ALL FALL SPORTS CLEARANCES WILL BE DONE ONLINE USING FAMILYID.* A valid email is necessary to register.
Dr. Lasser will be in the district performing sports physicals at the following times and locations. Please sign up with the nurse ahead of time:
August 2 in the PHS nurses office starting at 11 a.m.
August 9 in the PHS nurses office starting at 8 a.m.
The listing of sports offerings can be found
here.
Important dates:
Fall Sports FamilyID Registration Opens:
JV/Varsity sports registration is now open.
Modified sports registration opens August 5.
All JV and Varsity spring sports begin on August 13.
All Spring modified sports for seventh and eighth graders begins on Sept. 5.
Sports clearance online registration must be completed no later than Aug. 12 for PHS sports and by Sept. 5 for all Modified sports. Sports registrations must be completed online every season. For example, if you played a fall sport, you must complete another clearance for the winter season.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact the Athletic Department at: 914-737-3300 ext.316.
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Parents/guardians interested in registering their children for PM Pre-Kindergarten may call at 914-739-0682, Ext 246. To be enrolled in the 2018-2019 school year, children must be 4 years old by December 1, 2018.
Click here for other important registration information.
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PKMS to Host Jump Start Program on August 10
Calling all incoming Peekskill Middle School Grade 6 students...Jump Start 2018 is coming! This informative event is scheduled for Friday, August 10, 2018 at Peekskill Middle School.
Jump Start is a mandatory school orientation for all Grade 6 students and their parents/guardians at the Peekskill Middle School.
The program will help prepare incoming students and their families to learn more about the middle school experience, set expectations for school safety, introduce PBIS and class transition, and create the foundation for sixth grade learning community.
The orientation will be divided into two sessions so that the students and their families can travel with their homeroom class and tour their new school. Session one is for students in hall 6-North scheduled for 8:30-10:00 a.m. and session two is for students in hall 6-South from 10:30-12:00 p.m.
The Grade 6 team will be facilitating the workshops so parents and teachers will have the opportunity to meet and ask questions.
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Beginning July 1, 2018, all New York State public school students must have a health exam when they enter school:
- as a new entrant
- in Pre-K or Kindergarten
-in Grades 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11
The required NYS School Health Examination Form was developed to provide consistency throughout the state in the health care information provided to schools. We understand that your medical provider's office may not yet be aware of the change, so if you have already had a physical examination completed for the 2018-2019 school year on a different form, the school will accept the physical on that form.
Starting in the 2019-2020 school year, only the Approved NYSED School Health Examination Form will be accepted.
It is the fundamental policy of the Board of Education to have medical examinations of pupils attending public schools made by the family's private physician whenever possible. This policy recognizes the fact that the family physician is the most familiar with the health problems of the pupil and best able to institute treatment when needed. If the examination form is not submitted to the school nurse, the school physician (Medical Director) will do a health appraisal on all new entrants and in Pre-K or Kindergarten, and in Grades 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11.
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Our alumni Peekskill Science Research (PSR) students have secured themselves some amazing opportunities this summer! Watch this video as these recent PHS graduates tell you about their culminating PSR projects and how these projects tie into their summer internships.
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This summer a group of students in Peekskill's My Brother's Keeper program participated in a variety of workshops at Peekskill High School, while others teamed up with the PCSD Art Department to help beautify the locker rooms at the administration building. In the workshops, students were able set short and long term goals, speak about healthy relationships, work with computers and give feedback on what they'd like to see the program offer next year. After attending the workshops, many off the students who participated in the lessons reconvened on a separate day for a group trip to Great Adventure with some of our MBK mentors. A fun time was had by all!
On July 18, PCSD Superintendent Dr. Mauricio, PKMS Principal Mr. Jamal Lewis, PHS Assistant Principal Mrs. Naima Smith-Moore and PKMS Teacher Cami Blazejewski attended the Lower Hudson Valley My Brother's Keeper (MBK) regional meeting where they shared updates on this year's work and learned from other districts' efforts. Moving forward into the new school year, Dr. Mauricio and staff will be convening community stakeholder meetings to build upon PCSD's past successes and to further develop the focus of the MBK initiative.
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Please join the Peekskill City School District in welcoming Ms.
Rebecca Avíles-Rodriguez as she joins us as the new principal of Woodside Elementary School. Ms. Avíles-Rodriguez comes to us as a former principal in the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District. Additionally, she has served in the New York City Department of Education for the past 17 years in the various roles of assistant principal, data analyst and as a first and second grade teacher. Ms. Avíles-Rodriguez embraces this new role and is committed to working with staff and families to ensure that Woodside students have the best possible educational experience. She looks forward to the opportunity to serve this vibrant community and embraces it with enthusiasm and a high level of commitment to public service. To read more on Ms. Avíles-Rodriguez, please click here.
We also welcome Mr. William Toro, who has joined PCSD as our new High School Assistant Principal and Freshman Academy Coordinator. Mr. Toro
has over 11 years of experience in education and comes to Peekskill from the New York City Department of Education in the Bronx and the Brentwood Union Free School District. Throughout his career, Mr. Toro has worked as a High School and Middle School Mathematics teacher in both Brentwood and NYCDOE, and as an Assistant Principal in the NYCDOE. To read more on Mr. Toro, please click here.
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On Tuesday, June 19, Peekskill student Albert Sullivan closed out a successful school year by being named a PNW BOCES Student of Distinction at a Peekskill Board of Education meeting.
PNW BOCES District Superintendent Dr. James Ryan, joined by PNW BOCES Assistant Superintendents Dr. Lynn Allen and Mr. John McCarthy, accompanied Sullivan's family, teachers and BOCES Board of Education trustee Mr. Douglas Glickert to the Peekskill Administration Building where a ceremony was held in Sullivan's honor. At the event, Sullivan was presented a medal in addition to a certificate of recognition noting his, "outstanding leadership skills, academic progress and community spirit."
Sullivan's teacher, Ms. Tammy Adams spoke at the ceremony and explained why her student was selected for BOCES' prestigious honor.
"Albert is a trusted student," Adams said. "He walks through the hallways with a smile, maintains his composure in the face of different opinions and is able to advocate for himself. We are so proud of Albert today."
Click here to read the full article on this story.
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Thank you to all of our volunteers who came out to help unload and distribute items at our July Mobile Food Pantry!
The Mobile Food Pantry will be returning to Hillcrest for the 2018-2019 school year.
Food items will be available for pick up on
the following dates: August 9, September 13, October 11, November 8 and December 13. Pick up will be held from
3:30 - 5:30 p.m. unless otherwise announced. We encourage our families to take advantage of this free resource. To help our efforts, we will also need volunteers to help set up, distribute food and clean up. If you are able to lend a hand, please contact [email protected]
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"Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity,
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Peekskill Board of Education
Michael Simpkins,
President
Maria Pereira,
Vice President
Trustees: Allen Jenkins, Jr., Pamela Hallman-Johnson, Branwen MacDonald, Samuel North,
Jillian Villon
Dr. David Mauricio
Superintendent of Schools
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We Want to Hear From YOU!
Please contact Superintendent Dr. David Mauricio by calling 914-737-3300 ext. 303, or email [email protected]
Peekskill CSD Communications
Laura Belfiore, Editor
Peekskill City School District
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Peekskill City School District | 1031 Elm Street, Peekskill, NY 10566 | (914) 737-3300 Contact: [email protected] | Visit our website: www.peekskillcsd.org
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