
Why We're Not Afraid of Skill Work at a Progressive School
Before you panic at the sight of a word pyramid and a worksheet in a progressive school, read this …

Documentation Foundations
The best documentation isn’t the most elaborate or even the most creative … it’s the documentation that makes learning most clearly visible!

First Annual Dr. MLK Jr. Day Justice March and Community Celebration
Our First Annual Dr. MLK Jr Day Justice March and Community Celebration organized by the PCS Student Council was a huge success!

A Middle School Designed for Student Leaders
Learn more about the PCS Middle School program. Now in it’s third year, the PCS Middle School is a program intentionally designed to foster independent thinking and leadership initiative in our oldest students.

We're home! First Day of School at our new campus!
We’re home! And we’re so happy! Look at our beautiful new home!

Welcome Home Ceremony in Cutchogue, January 6, 2024
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: the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Celebration of Learning, Fall 2023: UN Sustainable Development Goals

Preparing for Magic: The Day Before the Celebration of Learning
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: Greenhouse Gases and Ocean Acidification
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 Community Action: Meet the Makers in Grade 1
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.

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

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

Scientific Method x Project Based Learning
Watch students create functioning water wheels as part of their study of UN Sustainable Development Goal #7: Clean and Affordable Energy

What Kind of World Do You Want to See?
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
A moving metaphor for the beginning of the year: taking time to find our rhythm together and see how we can work together.

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

A New Year of Math Learning is Underway
Finding our math groove in the start of a new school year.


Our Big Step Forward! Notes from Fall 2022
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.

1st Annual Grandparents and Special Friends Day
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 …