Due to the facilitators chaperoning a school trip, there will be no after-school explorers on Wednesday, February 15th, or Thursday, February 16th. After school explorers will resume on Tuesday February 21st. Sorry for any inconvenience. Again, No ASE until the 21st. See you again Tuesday.
Girls Grasshopper Basketball practice will begin tomorrow, February 15, 2023. Any 3rd or 4th grade girl that wants to participate will stay after school to practice until 4pm.
8th grade parents:
Today your child scheduled for high school courses for their freshmen year with the high school counselor. Please see and review the pre-registration form that your child completed today. Once it is completed, both your child and you need to sign this form and return it to me by Tuesday, February 21st. As always, please don’t hesitate to contact Mrs. Durst with any concerns or requests.
Softball Flex practice will begin Tuesday, February 14th through February 27th from 4pm to 6pm. This is a great time for 6th through 8th grade girls to learn about softball and team techniques. February 27th tryouts will start and all 6th through 8th grade girls need to be present. Come and join us this season!
Just a reminder that tomorrow night is our 8th graders last regular season home game to be played as Eagles. Let’s send them off with all showing their Eagle Pride. Tomorrow will be gold and blue day at school, and all our 8th graders will be recognized at the end of the girls’ game which begins at 5:45. Remember, all youth league players, kids and students get in free and all other fans are buy 1, get 1. Let’s pack the stands and send these kiddos off soaring high.
Due to a cancellation from Kasson, our 8th Grade night is now postponed to Thursday against Trinity and cancelled for tomorrow. We will still do youth night with free admittance for our youth league and students, but now on Thursday, instead of tomorrow.
Eagle family: Please be aware that we do not serve breakfast on 3 Hour Delay instructional days like we had today. Our first lunch is served shortly after school begins. Please make sure that if hungry, your student eats at home before coming. Sorry for any inconvenience and if meals are ever an issue, please reach out as we have programs to assist with this.
Congratulations to our high flyers who showed their "Eagle Pride" this grading period and flew onto the dean's honor roll. Those students are...
Congratulations to our high flyers who exemplified "Eagle Pride" this grading period and soared onto the principal's honor roll. Those students are...
TAEP will be participating in National Hot Chocolate Day tomorrow during lunch. Students may choose with their hot lunch meal, at no charge, a hot chocolate instead of cold milk. If they wish both, the cost is 35 cents. Students eating cold lunch may purchase a hot chocolate for 35 cents. All money should be paid at the time of service. Please have exact change.
Please join us this Wednesday as our Eagles take on Kasson at home and we send our 8th graders off as we celebrate each of them. We also want to thank the place where it all starts, so all youth league players and students will be getting in for free, so slap on your blue and gold and come out and root on your Eagles.
There are two pictures on the Facebook page and Live Feed on the app that are our February events calendar and dress up days for School Counseling Week next week. Also, the LSIC meeting has been rescheduled for February 27th from 5-6 PM.
Dress up Days:
2/6 - Pajama Day
2/7 - Sports Jersey or Shirt Day
2/8 - Pink, Red, or Valentines Shirt
2/9 - Dress like the job you want
2/10 - Superhero Shirts
Tomorrow’s scheduled 2nd quarter LSIC meeting will be rescheduled for about a month from now. The date will go out this week. With the main topic of concern being behavior, we will be instituting a new program at school, so are planning time for initial implementation and reporting back. Sorry for the inconvenience. If there’s anything else that the LSIC would like added to the next agenda, please email Mr. Hough.
ASE is starting back up tomorrow. Again, After School Explorers resumes tomorrow, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience and delay. It will run Monday through Thursday from 2:25 to 4:25, and a reminder that parents must pick up their students because busing is not available.
We will not be holding Bible Club or FCA after school today, Friday the 27th. Sorry for any inconvenience and we look forward to seeing everyone next week.
Due to the pending weather tomorrow that is supposed to occur throughout the evening, we have decided to cancel the rescheduled concert and postpone parent/teacher conferences for Thursday, February 23rd from 4-6:30. Sorry for the inconvenience, but if the storm hits in the evening tomorrow or while parents, students and staff are here, we don't want to risk putting people on the roads later in the evening. (We will not be rescheduling the concert, as students need to prep for spring performances, however, we will conduct a few facebook lives that will save the videos during class next week, so you can see your students performance of those holiday songs)
Honors Academy Opportunities
TAEP had a great turnout in the Preston County Science Fair. 11 students participated, with multiple placing. Those students were as follows:
Earth and Environmental Science:
3rd Place - Tectonic Plates - Brantley Ball and Lane Galloway (5th Grade)
2nd Place - What Environment Grows Crystals Best - Taylor Grose (5th)
Physics and Astronomy:
3rd Place - Does Surface Matter - Miah Lewis and Alexi Dodge (5th)
Math and Data:
1st Place (Regional Representative) - Card Shuffle - Vada Walsh (5th)
Advances to Regional on 2/11/23
Earth and Environmental Science:
3rd Place - Water Filter Project - Kira Knotts, Abigail Shrout and Madeline Kisner (7th)
Medical Science:
3rd Place - Real World Zombies - Jacob Sisler (7th)
Embedded Systems:
2nd Place - What Household Objects Close a DC Circuit - James Hauger (7th)
We also want to congratulate Mariah Legeer, who attends PHS, but will always be an Eagle. She also got 1st place and qualified for regionals at the high school level.
Our Eagle Family wishes both Vada and Mariah the best of luck at Regionals.
(Group picture coming soon)
PCS will dismiss 2 hours early on Friday, January 13, 2023 and Monday, January 16, 2023 there is no school.
Parent Teacher Conferences, as well as our make-up Middle School Holiday Concert will be held on the evening of Thursday, January 26th. Parent Teacher conferences begin at 4:00 and will last until 6:30. PTO will be providing hot dogs, chips and cookies. The concert will begin promptly at 6:45. More information will follow in terms of structure of the evening. Mr. Hough and Ms. Baker will be moving throughout the school from 4:00-5:00, then will be available in their office from 5:00-6:30 if any parents would like a meeting to discuss any concerns or issues with them. In February, they will also be hosting an open-forum, town hall meeting at the school.
