A moving metaphor for the beginning of the year: taking time to find our rhythm together and see how we can work together.

Inspired by the rain tapping on their tent, Kindergarten made rain sound crescendos in Music today!

Finding our math groove in the start of a new school year.

Day One! Welcome to 2023/24 PCS — this is going to be a big one!

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.

In honor of our Tenth Anniversary school year, PCS hosted our First Annual Grandparents and Special Friends Day, May 6th. Grandparents and special friends joined us on both campuses …

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 culture and the people of the neighboring Shinnecock Nation, specifically, students and facilitators worked together to:

What a pleasure it is to write to you from a place 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 …

As we close the door to 2021 and prepare to usher in 2022 (the second half of our 10th school year at PCS!) we, like many of you, are not quite sure what to expect. But, what we do know with certainty is that this community of children, families, friends and supporters continues to inspire us and bolster our spirits.

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!

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 …

It seems only fitting that our Integrated Unit on Humans and Technology culminate in this digital Celebration of Learning. Explore below to see how the learning around Humans and Technology unfolded this trimester!

We’re thrilled to present the very first edition of VDN: Very Decent News, a monthly hyper-local news feature, written, performed, filmed and produced by PCS sixth and seventh grade students …

For those who’ve been wondering — our remote learning program is, by necessity, quite different than the in-school PCS learning experience that we’ve worked so hard to build over the past 8 years, and yet in many ways it’s very much the same.

Thank you, Upper Primary, for organizing and leading such a beautiful, heartwarming and community-building All-School Meeting via Zoom. We are so grateful that you seized this opportunity to bring us together again and remind us just how very much we need and love each other.

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.

What happens when you combine learner-centered, project-based learning with a trimester-long Integrated Unit on the human body? Learning comes to life, of course!

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.

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.