We’re home! And we’re so happy! Look at our beautiful new home!

Opening the doors with families and friends to our new permanent home campus in downtown Cutchogue! We couldn’t be more excited for this next chapter in PCS history!

Celebration of Learning, Fall 2023: UN Sustainable Development Goals

Students put the finishing touches on a trimester’s worth of study around the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals leading up to the Celebration of Learning, December 14th.

Middle School science lab tests the effects of greenhouse gases on marine organisms via an experiment in ocean acidification as part of their study of UN Sustainable Development Goal #14: Clean Water/Sustaining Life Below Water.

Design Cycle Learning x Integrated Unit x Service Learning —> a student-designed and built Free Little Food Pantry to fulfill a real community need identified by students.

Based on their research into UN Sustainable Development Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation — second grade engineers are developing their own NYC garbage barges.

Investigating UN Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation with a Field Work expedition with the Peconic Baykeeper

Watch students create functioning water wheels as part of their study of UN Sustainable Development Goal #7: Clean and Affordable Energy

To kick off their study of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, second graders used transparencies to illustrate what changes to the current world they would like to affect in order to make the world more prosperous.

A moving metaphor for the beginning of the year: taking time to find our rhythm together and see how we can work together.

Inspired by the rain tapping on their tent, Kindergarten made rain sound crescendos in Music today!

Finding our math groove in the start of a new school year.

Day One! Welcome to 2023/24 PCS — this is going to be a big one!

For those who have not yet heard the wonderfully exciting news, we’re thrilled to share that Peconic Community School is in contract to purchase the 10.2 acre Sacred Heart R.C. Church campus in downtown Cutchogue! The Board of PCS has been working to identify a permanent home for over ten years, so this marks a truly historic moment for the school.

In honor of our Tenth Anniversary school year, PCS hosted our First Annual Grandparents and Special Friends Day, May 6th. Grandparents and special friends joined us on both campuses …

Our end of unit Celebrations of Learning give us a chance to observe a trimester’s worth of shared study in panorama: noting threads, perspectives, connections, and evolving understandings around a common topic. Through this Integrated Study Unit centered on Native American history and culture and the people of the neighboring Shinnecock Nation, specifically, students and facilitators worked together to:

What a pleasure it is to write to you from a place of joyful anticipation and hope as the winter months wind down and the longer, warmer days of spring approach. It is with sincere gratitude for the support, cooperation and inspiration …

As we close the door to 2021 and prepare to usher in 2022 (the second half of our 10th school year at PCS!) we, like many of you, are not quite sure what to expect. But, what we do know with certainty is that this community of children, families, friends and supporters continues to inspire us and bolster our spirits.