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.
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
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
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
@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
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.
During Mrs. Wasosky and Mrs. Garner’s Civics and Economics class at Powhatan Middle School, the eighth graders were assisted by Mr. Nutt, instructional technology innovator, in taking a virtual tour of Washington, D.C. While learning about the branches of government, getting a virtual tour to see the monuments and key government buildings was a hands-on way to see the nation’s capital, where so much of the federal government operates. Some of the sites “visited” included the Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, U.S. Capitol, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Mr. Stocker's World History I eighth graders at Powhatan Middle School spent time in the Innovation Lab researching and building 1:200 scale models of ancient monuments. Some of the monuments included Stonehenge, the Parthenon, Roman aqueducts, and the Coliseum. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Mrs. Arnett took her sixth-grade math class at Powhatan Middle School to Dr. Spott’s Innovations Lab to work on a project using integer operations to program robots. The students would solve the problem and then program the Finch Robots 2.0 to check their answers. #wearepcps #teampowhatan #elevateeducatorsva
Are you a Powhatan grandparent raising a grandchild? Grandparents Raising Grandchildren is a weekly group offering support and resources for grandparents raising grandchildren. The group meets on Thursdays from 11 a.m. to noon at 3910 Old Buckingham Road. Learn how to process and navigate common challenges.
Mrs. Woodel and Mr. Altizer spent two days in the Powhatan Middle School Innovation Lab with their seventh-grade U.S. History 2 students working in assembly lines making airplanes. The lesson relates to the classes’ study of Henry Ford and his mechanization of the assembly line and the study of the Wright brothers’ success with flight. “It helps them understand your job is important no matter how small,” said Mr. Altizer said. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Powhatan County Public Schools highly recommends that families with smartphones download the free PCPS app and enable notifications. When alerts such as notice of school delays or closings are sent out, the notifications through the app appear to be the one of the fast means of receiving the information. You can sign up for notifications sent to the entire school division as well as only your child's school; see the news feed that mirrors what goes on our social media accounts if you don't use Instagram or Facebook; and see the division and school calendars. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Ms. Antosiak's integrated math 7 students had fun exploring the types of slope at Powhatan Middle School. Students used motion sensors to create a variety of graphs by recording their movements. The students had to identify what type of slope was created and explain how the distance changed over time. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Powhatan County Public Schools is now accepting ECSE Preschool applications. Applications are available through Feb. 9, 2024. In-person screenings/play dates will be scheduled from Feb. 12-23. All children must participate in the screening and play date in order to be considered for this program. The week of March 4, families will be notified by email of acceptance or rejections/waitlisted. For more information, contact: Loretta Mabry, Lead Teacher/Instructional Coach, Special Education at Flat Rock Elementary School, at 804-598-5743 ext. 1109. For the Role Model Brochure and Application, visit https://www.powhatan.k12.va.us/article/1412720.
Up, Up, and Away! Mr. Nutt, Powhatan Middle School’s Instructional Technology Innovator, helped the seventh graders in Mrs. Franklin’s STEM Exploratory class wrap up the fall semester by learning to program drones and try to get them to do set tasks. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
