Rocky Point Weekly Update
May 18th-21st
Hello Rocky Point Families
As we approach the last week of school for the 2025-2026 school year, we celebrate our partnership with each family that we serve! We appreciate your efforts in reading our weekly messages, following our social media and news posts, communicating with our teachers through Rooms and communicating with our office email in regards to student absences and transportation changes. We are grateful to serve such a wonderful community as we work diligently to prepare students to be successful each year as well as beyond elementary school in life. Please check your messages from individual classroom teachers for information in regard to classroom celebrations this upcoming week. Also, please note that the last day of school, Thursday, May 21 is an early release for students and they will be dismissed at 11:20 a.m.
As we approach our final week of school, our quote for this upcoming week as we continue our end of grade remediation and readministrations and celebrate student success at this week’s upcoming grade level celebrations. We look forward to seeing all families for our grade level celebrations this upcoming week!
End of Grade Assessment, Remediation & Readministration
As unofficial student results of end of grade assessments were sent home last week, you are able to see just how hard our teachers have been working to teach grade level standards for mastery with students and how hard our students have been working to demonstrate their knowledge on the EOGs. Official individual student reports will be coming home with students with their report cards on the last day of school pending state approval to do so.
This upcoming week readministrations will take place for Math for students in grades 3-5 and for Science for 5th grade students that did not demonstrate proficiency on the first assessment. Remediation will take place on Monday, May 18th for Math & Science and Tuesday, May 19th for Science. Administration of Read to Achieve testing will take place for select 3rd grade students and retesting of EOG assessments will occur this upcoming week as follows:
Monday, May 18: 3rd grade Read-to-Achieve assessment
Tuesday, May 19: 3-5 Math Readministration
Wednesday, May 20: 5th grade Science Readministration
Please note that attendance continues to matter as all teachers continue to instruct students to prepare them for the remaining end of grade assessments in grades 3-5 as well as for the upcoming grade in grades Pre-K-2. A reminder again to please make sure to mark your calendars for everything coming up during the remaining 3 weeks of our school year!
PACES
Please note that PACES will NOT operate on the last day of school. The PACES Application for 2026-2027 school year is now open on the Pender County Schools website. Please consider applying early to ensure enough staffing can be in place as we begin next school year!
Strategic Plan Perception Assessment
The PCS Board of Education approved our Strategic Plan Perception Assessments this past week, which are directly tied to Goal 4: Investing in Community. Please be on the lookout for these assessments being sent to you via text and email, tomorrow, Monday, May 18 and take time to provide feedback.
Collecting Disaster Supplies - May 18 - May 29
Ronald McDonald Pop Tab Challenge Continues - Meet Ryleigh
Please bring in your can pop tabs this last week to support Ryleigh. Again, Ryleigh is 8 months old. This sweet girl is working on her third surgery. Her brother goes to Rocky Point Elementary, so this hits a little closer to home. She will be in and out of Chapel Hill for a few years doing multiple surgeries. She has already had 2 surgeries now for the 3rd surgery around October to Christmas, where she will be in the hospital for 2-3 months for recovery. She has something special and extremely rare called cloaca malfunction that she will be getting worked on next. From her mother, Lynzey, she wants to personally thank everyone who has donated and continues to save their tabs for us to take to the Ronald McDonald House.
Again, please consider saving and sending in all of your tabs from soda, food and pet food cans as we will continue our efforts in collecting tabs to send to the Ronald McDonald House to help Ryleigh and other children like her. Let’s work together to collect as many pop tabs as possible!
May School Improvement Meeting
Our final school improvement meeting for this school year will take place on Thursday, May 28 at 1:00 p.m.
Read Around the Bases - Monday, June 1
Thank you again for encouraging students to read nightly in your homes during the evenings this school year. All students will receive 2 tickets to watch a Wilmington Sharks baseball game on June 1 for their excellent growth demonstrated from beginning of year to end of year.
Kindergarten Registration
Kindergarten Enrollment applications are continuing to be accepted for the 2026–2027 school year for children that will be turning 5 prior to August 31, 2026. Families can access the application using the direct application link, 2026-27 Kindergarten Enrollment Application, or by visiting pender.k12.nc.us/enroll.
Preschool Application 2026-2027
The preschool application for 2026-2027 school year is now LIVE on the PCS website, on the preschool page. If you have a child that will be turning age 3 or 4 prior to August 31, 2026, please consider applying or reach out to our preschool office, 910-259-7603 or email: preschool@pender.k12.nc.us. Acceptance letters will begin to be sent out on April 1 as we must ensure funding is approved prior to sending letters of acceptance to families.
Second Semester Upcoming Event Reminders
Below are our events for the fourth quarter of the year. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for these events:
May 18 - May 20: EOGs & Readministration opportunities
May 19: End of Year Awards for 1st grade (11:15 a.m.), Kindergarten (12:20 p.m.) and 2nd grade (1:25 p.m.)
May 20: End of Year Awards for 3rd grade (11:45 a.m.) & 4th grade (1:00 p.m.)
May 21: 5th grade Moving Up Ceremony (8:00 a.m.)
Lunch Menu
You can find school lunch menus for each grade level by following THIS LINK.
Summer feeding opportunities will take place again this summer at Rocky Point Elementary school. Please continue to follow our social media as further information is provided.
Pender County Schools Weekly Newsletter
Please see the information happening around our school district.