Report cards for our 3rd nine weeks will be sent home with students on Tuesday, March 25th.

As we start our 4th nine weeks tomorrow, we will have new staff outside for car duty. Please keep your car tags in your windows until your child is loaded in order to help our staff and the efficiency of our car line. In the mornings, please continue to help us get all students inside on time by pulling all the way up to the tall orange cone if you are the front vehicle and having your child ready to get out of the vehicle as soon as you turn into the last driveway to enter the car line.

What a great week we had this past week celebrating Read Across America and appreciating all the literature that excites our students! Thank you to all families that supported the week with the wonderful costumes. Also, thank you to the parents who joined us to hear author Donna Washington on Friday. It was definitely a good time had by all!

Thank you also to all families who have already registered rising Kindergarten students for the 25-26 school year and who took time to join us at our Kindergarten Registration Event this past Wednesday. If you know someone with a rising Kindergarten student in our district, please encourage them to apply now!

Kindergarten Registration is now open online! Please plan to come to our Kindergarten Registration event on March 12 at Heide Trask High School from 4:30 to 7:00pm. Admission to the event is free, and attendees will have the chance to purchase food from local food trucks while enjoying the evening. This event provides a valuable opportunity for families with children ages 3-5 to meet PCS staff, connect with community partners, and learn more about early learning programs in the district. Children will enjoy games and entertainment, while incoming kindergarten families will receive a Kindergarten Readiness Bag to support their transition to school.

A Kindergarten Registration Station will be available on-site, offering families assistance with the registration process. Parents planning to register their child for kindergarten should bring the following required documents:

· Birth Certificate

· Proof of Residence

· Health Assessment

· Immunization Records

· Parent/Guardian ID

A reminder that individual spring pictures will take place on Friday, March 21st. Make-up pictures will take place on Friday, March 28th. Class Pictures have been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 22nd.

In an effort to continuously move our students forward academically, we have recently implemented a program called Freckle across all grade levels. Students will be coming home with Chromebooks two days of the week to allow them to work on the adaptive pathway for the skills needed. You are able to access it through Classlink

A reminder that the reassignment request period for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year is now open. Parents who wish to enroll their students in a Pender County school outside of their designated zone, with the exception of Pender Early College and Pender Innovative Learning Academy, are encouraged to participate in the application process. Due to schools in the Topsail and Surf City school districts being over capacity, no new applications will be accepted for those schools. The deadline for submitting reassignment requests is March 31, 2025

The application for the 2025-26 Pender County Schools Preschool Program is now open! If you are interested in applying for our high-quality preschool program, we encourage you to submit your application early. To complete an application, please visit: https://www.pender.k12.nc.us/o/preschool. If you have any questions or need assistance with the application process, please contact our Preschool Office at 910-259-7603.

We are excited to share that 14 of our 19 homeroom classes have reached 80% of families connected in Rooms. If you have not been able to do so, please let us know how we can support removing any barriers to improve stakeholder communication.