Virginia Preschool Initiative and Head Start Applications for the 2024-2025 school year are available on the PCPS homepage as of March 4, 2024. When considering applying for these programs, children must be 3 or 4 years of age by September 30, 2024. See the division website for additional information. If you have any questions, please reach out to Dr. Prince at 804-598-5700. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Today is National Maintenance Worker Appreciation Day. We are so very grateful for all of our facilities staff here at Powhatan County Public Schools. PCPS is fortunate to have such a dedicated team working to keep our buildings running and ready for students, staff, and community members. Not pictured is Director of Facilities Bob Benway, who leads this amazing crew. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
For its fourth year, PCPS’s biggest pop culture event, the PCPS Comicon, was a huge success. In addition to being the largest event yet, the Comicon held on Feb. 24 at Powhatan High School also had the highest turnout of patrons and cosplay contestants. The exciting costume contest drew a wide variety of entrants recreating their favorite characters in pop culture. A total of $400 earned for PCPS’s five school libraries came from attendees and donations. It was a great day for literacy! #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Youth Art Month kicks off today, and to celebrate, PCPS is holding a Youth Art Month Art Exhibit opening from 2 to 4 p.m. this Sunday, March 3 at the Pocahontas Landmark Center. Come see beautiful artwork created by students from all five schools and curated for this year’s show, Experience PCPS. This exhibit, which shows the new generation of artists and creatives, will be on display through April 30 and is open to the public during PLC hours. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Students in Mrs. Simon’s second grade class at Powhatan Elementary presented posters about famous Black Americans to their class. The students researched and created posters for the project. Many of the students even dressed like the person they researched and reported on for their presentation. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
Young minds are always soaking up knowledge. This preschool student in Mrs. Rakes’ class at Powhatan Elementary was fascinated by the "habitats" the third graders made. The preschool class walked by the habitats in the hall every day going to and from the bus loop and talked about the word habitat when they read a story about a penguin in the Arctic. This student was so inspired by the older kids’ projects that he went home and asked his mom if he could make his own habitat and bring it in to show his class. He was so proud of it (as well he should be!), and asked to put it in the hallway like the third graders did. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
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 link is in the first comment.
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.
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 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
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
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
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.
Mrs. Williams’s fourth-grade class at Powhatan Elementary learned about prepositional phrases by tossing airplanes around the room to identify where they landed and creating prepositional poems about the airplanes' movements as a finished product. #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 continues National School Counseling Week by recognizing the counseling staff of Powhatan Elementary: Peggy Jenkins and Taileah Rich. #wearepcps #teampowhatan
