We are back again with another installment of the Powhatan County School Board Recap. As always, the goal of this newsletter is to help people who don't have the time to come to or watch full school board meetings still stay abreast of what is going on in our school division. The newsletter can be found at https://www.smore.com/13sxz.
This is National FFA Week, and PCPS wants to recognize the hardworking students and advisors of the Powhatan FFA Chapter and the positive impact that this program has in their lives. Please join us in honoring their outstanding work. #wearepcps #teampowhatan #ffaweek
It’s time to gear up for PCPS’s biggest Pop Culture event. PCPS Comicon is only two days away! This awesome family event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, February 24 in the Commons area at Powhatan High School, 1800 Judes Ferry Road. This is a NEW LOCATION. Admission is only $1! All ages welcome. The Costume Contest begins at 2 p.m.
Throughout January and February, second graders from all three PCPS elementary schools traveled to the Elizabeth Randolph Lewis Powhatan YMCA to participate in the Learn to Swim program. The seven free swimming lessons per second-grade class are supported by fundraising efforts of YMCA donors with the goal of saving lives through water safety education and swimming instruction. At the end of the program, students receive a certification of achievement and a Learn to Swim T-shirt. Throughout those seven lessons, the kids learned critical water safety skills such as asking permission to enter the water, swim-float-swim, dog paddling, and how to save someone who is drowning without putting themselves in danger. PCPS thanks the YMCA and the amazing instructors who make this important skill so fun and engaging for our second graders. Check out some of these fun Learn to Swim moments with Pocahontas Elementary students. #wearepcps #teampowhatan #swimmingtime
Goochland Powhatan Community services is hiring open positions for School-based clinicians. CSB, a partner of Powhatan County Public School, has openings for several school-based mental health clinicians. To apply, click the link in the first comment.
The Powhatan School Board is seeking volunteers from Districts 1 and 3 to serve on a Book Review Committee that will serve on a five-member committee to assist with the review of specific books from the secondary school libraries that may contain sexually explicit content. Each of the five members of the assigned Book Review Committee will have one vote, and a strong majority vote (5-0 or 4-1) is required to remove a book from the library/media center(s). Applications are due by 5 p.m. on March 4, 2024. School Board members will review applications and make the final selections.
To fill out an application, scan the QR code, follow the link in the first comment, or find the link on the PCPS homepage.
Students in Mrs. Beberdick and Mr. Hart's eighth-grade English classes at Powhatan Middle School created posters in honor of Black History Month. They thoroughly investigated the lives of the historical personalities, using reliable sources and following MLA guidelines for accurate source citation, before creating their stunning posters. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Students in Ms. Daniel’s first grade class at Powhatan Elementary practiced creating algorithms by coding a Robot Mouse to get to the correct shape and color. They also used Ozobots to figure out the color-coded algorithm the Ozobots needed to complete the track. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Mrs. Ford’s kindergarten class at Pocahontas Elementary practice sight words. This exercise involves using words commonly seen in their stories to help build word foundations. As a creative side project, Mrs. Okes, a parent volunteer, took individual students aside to do a project making handprint snowflakes using tempera paint. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Just a reminder that Monday, February 19, 2024, is a student holiday/staff work day. We hope our PCPS have a great three-day weekend!
Today is School Resource Officer Appreciation Day. PCPS appreciates the support of the Powhatan County Sheriff’s Office and especially our own SROs:
Powhatan High School: Jason Homer and Bridget Withers
Powhatan Middle: Foster Miles
Pocahontas Elementary: Ron Sadler
Powhatan Elementary: Maurice Tovar
Flat Rock Elementary: Tim Wright
Mr. Payne’s Electricity 2 Honors students at Powhatan High School recently wrapped up a project where they added solar power to the Agricultural Science Department’s small animal barn to add lights to the building. The school purchased a solar panel kit with a recent donation to the Electricity Program. The students learned how it works and how to install it. The program is also looking into the possibility of using the same panels for a future project to heat the barn’s water containers so the water doesn’t freeze in the winter. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Ms. Hathaway’s sixth graders worked together with Dr. Spott in the Innovation Lab at Powhatan Middle School during their English class on a special X Games project. Students made X Game slopes, ramps, and tricks that they correlated with a lesson on figurative language. For their final project, the students described their slopes with figurative language such as “my slope is as tall as the mountains” or “the cotton is fluffy snow.” #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Flat Rock Elementary fourth graders’ STEM Day was out of this world!. The students showed their understanding of the relationship and movement of the sun, earth, and moon. They modeled and explained why we have the seasons, tides, and phases of the moon. Students explained what causes the seasons, including facts such why the tilt and the earth’s orbit around the sun causes our seasons. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Last week, Powhatan County Public Schools embraced the 100th Day of School in a very festive way. We would love to see some of your 100th Day photos! In the meantime, here are some of the images from Powhatan Elementary School, including classes taking photos with a special sign out front and photos in Mrs. Peterson’s kindergarten class. In addition to wearing homemade 100th Day T-shirts and headgear, the class had 100th Day stations such as stacking 100 cups, writing about what they would do if they had $100, drawing a 10-legged monster, cutting and gluing counting-by-ten puzzles, making a pattern out of 100 blocks, and learning about pennies. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
@backpacksofloveinc is holding a Food Drive through Feb. 23, 2024. Backpacks of Love, Inc. is a local charity that was formed to provide food for school children over the weekend. Children who need such food receive a small bag of food and snacks on the last day of the school week. Our partners at Backpacks of Love are asking for our help! They need food donations. Below is a list of what they need. Please bring donations to your child’s school through Feb. 23. If you have any questions, please reach out to Kelly Sarkees at 804-598-5700 ext 116. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
During art class at Pocahontas Elementary, Mrs. Williamson had the fifth graders in Mrs. Yoder’s class working on a paper weaving project. The students learned about Virginia’s state bird, the northern cardinal, which was to be the focal point of the art project. They used paper strips to learn the difference between warp and weft when weaving their beautiful creations. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Mrs. Barnes’ AP Physics 1 students at Powhatan High School study simple harmonic motion with pendulums. They determine the effect of mass and length on the time period of a pendulum to swing back and forth. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
National School Counseling Week 2024 (#NSCW24) is being recognized from Feb. 5-9, 2024, to focus public attention on the unique contribution of school counselors within U.S. school systems. National School Counseling Week, sponsored by the American School Counselor Association, highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career. PCPS wraps up National School Counseling Week by recognizing the counseling staff of Powhatan Middle School: Amy Conrad, Austen Winkler and Terry Baldwin. Not pictured is Kyla Monie. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Powhatan County Public Schools’ Adult Education spring offerings are listed on our website! Thanks to your attendance and interest, the program has grown, from 9 classes when we started a year ago to 17 this spring. The quickest way to get into a course is to go directly to our website (check the first comment for link) and click on "course listing overview" for times/dates, and then go to "indicate your interest." Spread the word about our tour of Fine Creek experience, our CPR/AED/First Aide training, Serv Safe managers training, plate welding, a brewery business tour, project management training, arbory, painting and more! Feel free to share our website on your social media pages and groups. Thank you for helping Powhatan residents enrich lives and expand opportunities.
