📣CALLING ALL MAKERS!! We’re thrilled to announce our upcoming 6th Annual PCS Maker Fair, Saturday, April 26th! We’re reaching out to makers, tinkerers, artists, craftspeople, and innovators of all kinds to share their passions with the nearly 500 attendees we’re expecting at this year’s event. Come set up a table — there’s no fee to participate!! Part science fair, part county fair, and part something else entirely, the PCS Maker Fair is a family-friendly festival of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness in celebration of the Maker Movement. What We’re Looking For: We welcome all forms of making – from traditional crafts to cutting-edge technology. Whether you build robots or birdhouses, code games or knit scarves, we’re looking for you to help us make this the biggest and best fair yet! Event Details: Date: Saturday, April 26th Time: 10am to 2pm Location: Peconic Community School, 27685 Main Rd, Cutchogue What to Expect: • Interactive demonstrations encouraged • Approximately 500 visitors throughout the event • Family-friendly environment • Opportunities to sell your creations • No fee to participate! How to Participate: Please fill out our brief maker application form at the link in bio above by March 1st. Include: • Your name and contact information • Description of your making activity • Space and setup requirements • Any special considerations Questions? Contact Maker Fair Committee Chair Megan Eilers at megan@peconiccommunityschool.org

✨PCS Community: Tomorrow is First Friday! Classrooms will be open for the morning from 8:45 to 9:15 for you to visit. First Fridays are the perfect, informal opportunity for families to check in with the students, experience a little classroom life for yourselves and have a peek at some of the works in progress happening in the classes. ✨Immediately following open classrooms, at 9:15, we’ll hold our third Community Coffee of the year in the upper level library focused on DEIJ Education at Peconic Community School. DEIJ coordinator Nicole Moodie will join Co-directors Liz Casey and Kathryn Casey Quigley to talk about how social justice education, DEIJ and ABAR education unfold at PCS. #firstfriday #openclassrooms #familypartnerships #communitycoffee #socialjusticeeducation #DEIJ #ABAReducation #peconiccommunityschool

Kicking off our Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action. The mission of BLM at school is to work to address racial injustice in education, embody Black joy, confront anti-Blackness and build authentic partnerships with all who support creating equitable school communities across the nation. This week as a community we’ll explore the 12 guiding principles of BLM at school: Collective Value, Diversity, Restorative and Transformative Justice, Trans-Affirming, Disability Justice, Queer-Affirming, Unapologetically Black, Loving Engagement, Intergenerational Love, Black Villages, Black Women, and Globalism. Today students are focused on Restorative Justice and Loving Engagement. From Middle Schoolers listening to a podcast episode from Heather Cox Richardson on the importance of February 1st for Black history, to ECs and K gathering for a community reading of @coilyandcute Sharee Miller’s Don’t Touch My Hair, we’re considering how we engage as a community in a just and equitable way. How do we love each other? And how do we make amends when we make mistakes? How do we confront the injustices that permeate our history, and how do we ensure equity today? @blmatschool #blacklivesmatteratschool #weekofaction2025 #restorativejustice #lovingengagement #diversity #globalism #collectivevalue #transaffirming #queeraffirming #disabilityjustice #blackwomen #blackvillages #intergenerational #unapologeticallyblack #blackjoy #progressiveeducation #independentschool #northforklongisland #peconiccommunityschool

First graders are diving into our new Economy unit with a STEAM challenge! As students approach conversations about money and economics, they are first considering what constitutes a want vs. a need. Their STEAM challenge is to design and build a model of something that is a need. #STEAMchallenge #firstgrade #economyunit #wantsvsneeds #handsonlearning #designcyclelearning #progressiveeducation #independentschool #northforklongisland #peconiccommunityschool

Wishing everyone a Happy Lunar New Year!🐍

🥊One hour Self Defense Workshop for kids age 11 and up! Ready to build confidence and learn practical self-defense skills? Join us for a self-defense-focused boxing class led by Coach Grant, co-founder of Hill Street Boxing Riverhead. This one-hour, no-contact session combines the fundamentals of boxing with essential techniques for personal safety. Develop your footwork, coordination, strength, and cardio fitness while gaining the skills to protect yourself in real-life situations. Perfect for all fitness and experience levels! $40/student. Open to the public! Register via link in bio above⬆️ #selfdefenseworkshop #afterschoolprogram #wednesday #february26 #opentothepublic #nocontact #footwork #coordination #strength #cardiofitness #coachgrant @hillstreetboxing_

❄️How lucky are we to have an outdoor classroom covered in snow! Early Childhood tracked some rabbits, deer and foxes, and compared their own tracks to those of the animals. So much to be discovered; thank goodness a little cold weather doesn’t stop us from venturing outside at PCS. Many thanks to our families for providing kids with the gear they need for outdoor adventures! #outsideeveryday #outdoorclassroom #outdooreducation #earlychildhoodeducation #handsonlearning #progressiveeducation #independentschool #northforklongisland #peconiccommunityschool

A message from our directors regarding recent immigration actions. In light of the new administration’s recent executive orders on immigration, and the courageous statements of local schools regarding these orders, Peconic Community School wants to express solidarity with these districts and reaffirm its commitment to ensuring our building is a safe haven for all people regardless of immigration status. In addition to the legal protections afforded to schools and the children within them, PCS believes that schools should always be a place of safety and refuge. Our work as educators is to nurture, support and guide the hearts and minds of young people, and without the fundamental assurance of sanctuary and inclusion for every child within a school’s walls, that work is threatened. Peconic Community School stands in solidarity with neighboring Riverhead Central School District and other local schools making statements in support of the protection of immigrant students in their district. Taking such a stance is brave, bold, legally sanctioned and necessary, and we hope to see more districts follow suit. At PCS, while not anticipated, all staff have been informed to refuse entry to any immigration enforcement agency that seeks entry to our building, and to be in immediate touch with school leadership regarding their presence. In collaboration with our Board of Trustees, we will seek legal counsel prior to consenting to any action on the part of immigration agencies. We commit to protecting the safety of our students, families and staff, and support the efforts of every school to do the same. #peconiccommunityschool

Multiage learning is an integral part of the PCS approach. When students learn across age groups, something beautiful happens — older students reinforce their knowledge by teaching younger peers, while younger learners are inspired to reach higher. It’s the kid of natural, collaborative learning that prepares children for the real world.💫 Older students naturally step into leadership roles while younger ones gain confidence and advanced skills through peer learning. When our fifth and sixth graders work on reading with our first graders, or our Middle Schoolers work with Kindergarteners, or our third and fourth graders create poems with Early Childhood, they’re all growing in ways that go far beyond traditional classroom walls. Research shows multiage education better mirrors real life, where we constantly interact with people of different ages and experiences. It’s not just about academics — it’s about building empathy, leadership and lifelong learning skills. #multiagelearning #buddiesprogram #leadership #mentorship #inspiration #empathy #collaboration #realworldlearning #handsonlearning #letthemlead #progressiveeducation #independentschool #privateschool #northforklongisland #peconiccommunityschool

We’re thrilled to announce our Middle School Preview night Thursday, January 30th from 6 to 7:30pm here at PCS in the Middle School Classroom. We’re thrilled at the opportunity to share our remarkable Middle School program. Please join us to learn more about the cornerstone programs that make the PCS Middle School so unique — leadership initiatives, an advisory program, and of course, the much beloved Internship Program and Capstone Projects! The Middle School teaching team will be joined by Director of Teacher and Learning, Shannon Timoney, and co-directors Liz Casey and Kathryn Casey Quigley, as well as current Middle School students and recent graduates to talk about the PCS Middle School experience. You’ll learn more about how we blend academic rigor with hands-on, student-driven learning, with a focus on both collaboration and developing independent inquiry skills, all within the context of nurturing social emotional well being throughout this tender and potentially tumultuous age. The PCS Middle School is a place for our students to take off and come into their own, and we can’t wait to share the program with you! #middleschoolpreviewnight #pcsmiddleschool #leadership #advisory #internships #captstoneprojects #academicrigor #handsonlearning #studentdrivenlearning #collaboration #independentinquiry #socialemotionallearning

27685 Main Road, Cutchogue NY 11935(631) 734-8290INFO@PECONICCOMMUNITYSCHOOL.ORG

27685 Main Road, Cutchogue NY 11935(631) 734-8290
INFO@PECONICCOMMUNITYSCHOOL.ORG