PES November Family Newsletter

American Education Week - November 16th-20th

November 2nd: Kids Culinary Club 3:45-5:00PM

November 3rd: No School for Students - Professional Development Day

November 3rd: BOE Meeting 6PM

November 4th-12th: PES Fall Book Fair Begins Today and runs through the 12th

November 4th: Kids Culinary Club 3:45-5:00PM

November 5th: Diamond Painting Club 3:45-4:30PM

November 6th: Grandparents Day & Veterans Day Program

November 10th: Diamond Painting Club 3:45-4:30PM

November 11th: Veterans Day

November 12th: Last Day for PES Fall Book Fair

November 12th: Diamond Painting Club 3:45-4:30PM

November 13th: No School - Parent Teacher Conference Day

November 16th-20th: American Education Week

November 17th: Diamond Painting Club 3:45-4:30PM

November 19th: Diamond Painting Club 3:45-4:30PM

November 25th-27th: Thanksgiving Break - Schools and Offices Closed

November 26th: Happy Thanksgiving

Now that all of our Panthers are back in the building, including our Pre-K 3 & 4 students, we wanted to share a quick reminder about our arrival and dismissal procedures.

Please take a moment to review the map below and make sure your child is arriving and dismissing from the correct location. Using our designated bus rider loop, car rider loop, walker door, and main entrance helps us keep nearly 400 Panthers safe and makes arrival and dismissal run as smoothly as possible.

Thank you for your patience, cooperation, and for helping us keep all of our Panthers safe each day!

Welcome back! We’re so glad to have your children with us for the 2026-2027 school year!

To keep you informed and involved, we’re continuing to use Rooms, our two-way communication tool that helps you stay connected with your child’s teachers and school staff.

→ Click here to learn how to set your notification preferences.

• SMS Text Notifications
  You’ll now receive text message notifications whenever a new message or announcement is sent in Rooms. Each text includes a direct link to view the content in your mobile browser or in the app.
  

• One Messaging Inbox
  Our school app has been updated to give you one, single place to see all of your messages across all children. From this inbox, you can read, reply, or start new messages. This feature is available through the CCPS App, available in the App Store and Google Play.
  
  

• Upgraded Messaging Features
  Our messaging experience now lets you react to messages with emojis, respond in threads, send photos and videos, mute group messages, and more!

Check out this overview of the new experience, or watch this short video (video in Spanish or click on Haitian Creole) to learn more about what’s new for this year.

We’re here to help make communication simpler, more consistent, and easier to manage this year! Please let us know if you have any questions.

Hours of Operation:

Monday-Friday

8:15AM-4:15PM

225 Main Street

Preston, MD 21655

Phone: 410-479-2897

Fax: 410-673-7301

Parents Right to Know: The Federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) contains several provisions that promote a parent/school partnership through communication. One such provision gives parents the right to ask for and receive information about the professional qualifications of their child’s classroom teachers. A parent may request the following information: Any college or university degree, major or certification held by the teacher

• Whether the teacher is certified by the State of Maryland to teach a particular grade level or subject area

• Whether the teacher holds a conditional teaching certificate

• The qualifications of the paraprofessionals serving the student

If you would like to request the professional qualifications of your child’s classroom teachers or paraprofessionals, please submit a written request to the principal. The principal will provide the information to you within 30 business days of the date of your request.