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Suffolk Times: Independent School Up and Running in Downtown Riverhead, September 22, 2012
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Suffolk Times: Independent School Up and Running in Downtown Riverhead, September 22, 2012

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Riverhead Local: In the Garden with kids on 9/11: wonder, excitement and hope,September 15, 2012
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Riverhead Local: In the Garden with kids on 9/11: wonder, excitement and hope,September 15, 2012

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Riverhead Patch: New Elementary School to Open in Riverhead, April 30, 2012
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Riverhead Local: Arts-based Private School Opening Downtown This Fall, April 28, 2012
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North Fork Patch: Early Ed, Arts-Based School to Make Downtown Riverhead its Classroom,March 26, 2012
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🌿 Your North Fork summer starts here! There’s still time to give your child eight weeks of outdoor play, hands-on making, and nature-centered discovery. PCSummer is created by Peconic Community School, one of the East End’s most respected independent schools. Days are spent largely outside on our 10-acre Cutchogue campus — exploring, building, creating, and playing freely. Older children rotate daily through Spark Sessions taught by real community experts — including gardening, outdoor pottery, crochet, floral art, a weekly maker lab, and Sports Squad. Younger children follow a nature-centered daily rhythm of open-ended play, sensory exploration, and hands-on discovery. 📍 Cutchogue, NY | North Fork, Long Island 📅 June 29 – August 21 🕘 Full days 9am – 3pm | Extended day until 5pm available 🌞 Half-day mornings for Early Childhood | Afternoon Spark Sessions for K – Grade 4 👧🏽 Ages 3 – Grade 4 Enroll by the week or all eight — spaces are limited. Link in bio to register. ⬆️
The skills children need for today’s world aren’t handed out. They’re built by hand. At PCS, this kind of learning has shaped our model from the start. Even at recess. 🌊🪏 #problemsolving #collaboration #creativethinking #progressiveeducation #peconiccommunityschool
🌳 On Wednesday, May 27, our community will come together for our third annual PCS Giving Day. We’re inviting every family, friend, and member to be part of something special. This year, every gift will help us bring a new wooden swing set to
🌳 On Wednesday, May 27, our community will come together for our third annual PCS Giving Day. We’re inviting every family, friend, and member to be part of something special. This year, every gift will help us bring a new wooden swing set to our outdoor playscape, a permanent addition our students will love for years to come. Our goal is 100% community participation. Whether you give a little or a lot, your gift will matter. Our Giving Day page is live now, the first gifts are already coming in, and we’d love to have your support. Visit the link in bio to make your gift today. ⬆️ #pcsgivingday #100%participation #communitysupport #playscape #peconiccommunityschool
Middle School took to the water last week with a day at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx. First stop: the Fort Schuyler, a research boat and floating sea lab. Students collected water samples near City Island and dug into what shapes water quality in New York Harbor. Then they boarded the Empire State VII, SUNY Maritime’s brand new training ship. While they were on board, 550 cadets were preparing to ship out for weeks at sea to earn their U.S. Coast Guard licenses. Our students learned about navigation, what each crew member does, and the global politics that shape international shipping. They also came away with a clearer sense of SUNY Maritime’s programs and the wide range of careers and industries connected to maritime work. This was one of nearly twenty — yes, twenty!! — field trips happening at PCS just this trimester! From Early Childhood through 8th grade, our students spend regular time off campus, learning directly from the people and places connected to their studies. So grateful to @maritimecollege for having us aboard! This was spectacular! Field Research, Integrated Studies Unit, Hands-on Learning, Peconic Community School.
There’s a different kind of school on the East End. ✨BOOK A TOUR TODAY to see what child-led, project-based, community-minded education looks like for your child.  Our admissions director and co-founder Liz Casey is available daily by appointment to meet with your family.   Now is your chance to change the trajectory of your child’s learning. Come spend time in our classrooms, meet with our facilitators (and students!), and tour our 10+ acre campus in Cutchogue.  We’re currently enrolling for limited openings in Pre-K through Grade 8 for the 2026-27 school year.  Email: liz@peconiccommunityschool.org for a tour. #adifferentkindoflearning #childled #projectbased #communityminded #peconiccommunityschool
🌞 Summer is such a gift! Let your child enjoy it with eight weeks of outdoor play, hands-on making, and nature-centered discovery at Peconic Community School, one of the East End’s most respected independent schools. PCSummer welcomes children ages 3 through Grade 4. Days are spent largely outdoors on our 10-acre Cutchogue campus — exploring, building, creating, and playing freely. Older children rotate daily through spark sessions taught by real community experts — including offerings in gardening, outdoor pottery, crochet, floral art, a weekly Maker Lab and Sports Squad. Younger children follow a nature-centered daily rhythm of open-ended play, sensory exploration, and hands-on discovery. 📍 Cutchogue, NY | North Fork, Long Island  📅 June 29 – August 21  ⏱️ 9am – 3pm | Extended day until 5pm available  👧🏽 Ages 3 – Grade 4 Enroll by the week or all eight — spaces are limited. Link in bio to register. ⬆️ #northforksummercamp #northforkkids #outdoorsummer #northforksummer #peconiccommunityschool
Does it get any better?! A yearlong interest in ferries led our Early Childhood 3/4 class aboard the South Ferry’s Sunrise last week as part of our Marine Transportation Integrated Unit. Captain Liam and Captain Shannon took our youngest learners out from Shelter Island for a private ride around the bay, and even gave each child a turn at the wheel and on the horn! EC students have been studying ferries for weeks, learning the parts of a boat, nautical terms, and how ferry boats can help a community by transporting people to and from an island. Being aboard the South Ferry, students got to see all of their research in action. We’re so grateful to @shelterislandsouthferry for giving us this opportunity and making our little ones’ day! #fieldresearch #integratedstudiesunit #ferryboats #earlychildhoodeducation #peconiccommunityschool
🍃This August, kids head outside for a week of practical wilderness skills with certified herbalist Courtney Hall. Through guided, hands-on activities, they learn to find direction using the sun and shadows, build simple shelters, gather firewood safely, and practice the basics of first aid. The week also includes scavenger hunts and team challenges that ask them to slow down, work together, and put their new skills to use. Along the way, they grow more comfortable outside, more attentive to what’s around them, and more capable of taking care of themselves and one another. August 10th through 14th, 9am to 3pm, for ages 7 to 11. Link in bio to register. ⬆️ #explorerssurvivalprogram #pcsummer2026 #northforksummer #summerkids #peconiccommunityschool
🌊What does it look like when weeks of classroom research meet the real world? For 4th and 5th graders in the middle of this trimester’s maritime transportation unit, it looked like climbing all 182 steps of the Fire Island Lighthouse, stepping out onto the gallery 168 feet above the ground, and turning to find the Great South Bay on one side and the open Atlantic on the other. Back inside the tower, the class came face to face with a first-order Fresnel lens — an intricate, beehive-shaped mass of brass and glass prisms, and a tangible connection to their earlier experiment with flashlights and magnifying glasses and their visit to the Montauk Lighthouse. The lighthouse itself has also become a hands-on tool for understanding measurement and ratios — height, distance, and proportion made physically meaningful when you’re standing at the base of 168 feet, or climbing every one of its 182 steps. This was the second stop on a Long Island lighthouse tour that has taken students from the classroom into the field, and from the field back to their research with new eyes. For a school rooted in place-based learning, this is what the East End makes possible — the kind of understanding that only comes from being there. Many thanks to @fireislandlh for hosting our forth and fifth grades! #fieldresearch #integratedunit #lighthousemath #handsonlearning #peconiccommunityschool
🌞 Looking for a plan for those long summer afternoons? PCSummer Afternoon Spark Sessions are new this year, picking up where morning camps, sailing, or swim leave off. Every weekday brings a different focus, led by a community expert in their field. From 12:30pm to 4pm, children entering Kindergarten through fourth grade spend Mondays gardening with Erika Heilmann, Tuesdays in the Maker Space with Frank Longo, Wednesdays learning crochet with Noelle from Welly Crochet, Thursdays at the outdoor pottery wheel with Anna Fris, and Fridays creating floral art with certified herbalist Courtney Hall. Sports Squad with Owen and Aidan Searl runs every day for kids who’d rather be on the field. Monday through Friday, July 6th through August 21st. Sign up for the full seven week session or join week by week. Link in bio to register.⬆️ #pcsummer #summerafternoons #sparksessions #northforksummer #peconiccommunityschool
🌿 Your North Fork summer starts here! There’s still time to give your child eight weeks of outdoor play, hands-on making, and nature-centered discovery. PCSummer is created by Peconic Community School, one of the East End’s most respect
The skills children need for today’s world aren’t handed out. They’re built by hand. At PCS, this kind of learning has shaped our model from the start. Even at recess. 🌊🪏 #problemsolving #collaboration #creativethinking #progre
🌳 On Wednesday, May 27, our community will come together for our third annual PCS Giving Day. We’re inviting every family, friend, and member to be part of something special. This year, every gift will help us bring a new wooden swing set to
Middle School took to the water last week with a day at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx. First stop: the Fort Schuyler, a research boat and floating sea lab. Students collected water samples near City Island and dug into what shapes water quality
There’s a different kind of school on the East End. ✨BOOK A TOUR TODAY to see what child-led, project-based, community-minded education looks like for your child.  Our admissions director and co-founder Liz Casey is available daily by app
🌞 Summer is such a gift! Let your child enjoy it with eight weeks of outdoor play, hands-on making, and nature-centered discovery at Peconic Community School, one of the East End’s most respected independent schools. PCSummer welcomes childre
Does it get any better?! A yearlong interest in ferries led our Early Childhood 3/4 class aboard the South Ferry’s Sunrise last week as part of our Marine Transportation Integrated Unit. Captain Liam and Captain Shannon took our youngest learne
🍃This August, kids head outside for a week of practical wilderness skills with certified herbalist Courtney Hall. Through guided, hands-on activities, they learn to find direction using the sun and shadows, build simple shelters, gather firewood sa
🌊What does it look like when weeks of classroom research meet the real world? For 4th and 5th graders in the middle of this trimester’s maritime transportation unit, it looked like climbing all 182 steps of the Fire Island Lighthouse, stepping
🌞 Looking for a plan for those long summer afternoons? PCSummer Afternoon Spark Sessions are new this year, picking up where morning camps, sailing, or swim leave off. Every weekday brings a different focus, led by a community expert in their field.
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