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🌞 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

In our classrooms, the work on the walls isn’t decoration — it’s a tool. As students move through an Integrated Unit, having their ideas, questions, and discoveries around them lets them keep returning to their thinking, see how it’s evolving, and build on what they’ve already learned. During this Integrated Unit focused on Marine Transportation, our walls are covered with whaling ships coming to life, simple machines diagrammed for boat building, lighthouse lens and structures outlined, shark inquiries evolving, the Friar’s Head ship wreck being discovered, a giant ferry boat sailing through the bay, and the history of New York Harbor traced in annotated maps. Just walking into the classrooms, it’s so clear that stories are unfolding, histories are surfacing and discoveries are being made. Not because we’re looking at polished display pieces, but because we choose to live amongst our work and our ideas and our questions as they are evolving. #documentation #makinglearningvisible #inquirydrivenlearning #integratedstudiesunit #peconiccommunityschool

💫This Teacher Appreciation Week, we’re celebrating the educators who are the heart of PCS — facilitators who are thoughtful, wise, curious, deeply creative, and endlessly invested in the children they teach. These are facilitators who tr

💫This Teacher Appreciation Week, we’re celebrating the educators who are the heart of PCS — facilitators who are thoughtful, wise, curious, deeply creative, and endlessly invested in the children they teach. These are facilitators who truly see and honor every student. Who nurture the trust children need to take risks, to ask big questions and to show up for another. These are facilitators who model the compassion and critical thinking that we hope our students carry into the world. And who guide children in building the kind of community where everyone belongs and everyone contributes. They are mentors, advocates and visionaries. They see the potential in each child and help them discover their own power and purpose. The confidence, creativity, and belonging they foster now will shape who these children become and what they build together. To our facilitators, we say thank you. Thank you for the care and the heart and the wisdom you bring to this work and for the way you know and honor each of our children. You are so important, so valued, and so loved. ❤️ #teacherappreciationweek #bestteachersever❤️ #teacherschangelives #progressiveeducators #peconiccommunityschool

🌸The official Spring Soirée photos are here — and they are a beautiful record of a night that meant so much to all of us at Peconic Community School. We’re so grateful to @eduardoamorimphoto for so thoughtfully capturing what was a loving and moving tribute to Liz and Kathryn, a celebration of 14 years of extraordinary work, vision, and dedication, and a testament to the depth and warmth of the PCS community. We are just in awe of the community and spirit that has grown around this school. Thank you to everyone who took part in this event and contributed to such a special evening. 📸 Photos by @eduardoamorimphoto #soringsoiree2026 #honoringourcofounders #peconiccommunityschool

What an incredible morning! A heartfelt thank you to all of the grandparents and special friends who joined us this morning for our 5th Annual PCS Grandparents & Special Friends Day. It was a such joy to welcome you into our classrooms and our community — to enjoy a warm reception with Liz and Kathryn, work alongside your grandchildren in the classrooms, and share such a fun morning of music and movement with @brooklynballet ! Five years in, and this is still one of our favorite days on campus. Thank you for being a part of this tradition and our PCS community. You are so loved.🤍 #grandparentsandspecialfriendsday #brooklynballet #peconiccommunityschool

Just in awe of the experiences and community we’ve shared this year as we comb through the photo archives for Yearbook 2026. PCS families — stay tuned for yearbook preorder notice, coming soon! #learningcommunity #yearbook2026 #peconiccommunityschool

Second graders are studying shipbuilding this trimester as part of our Marine Transportation Integrated Unit. After learning how simple machines are applied in boat construction at the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, they returned to the classroom to take on a hands-on engineering challenge: build a boat out of aluminum foil that can hold the most pennies before it sinks. The lesson in buoyancy and displacement helped students understand that a boat floats when it pushes aside (displaces) a weight of water equal to its own. Once the load grows too heavy, the boat sinks. From whaling boats at the museum to foil boats in the classroom, second grade is learning what it takes to keep a vessel afloat. #shipbuilding #marinetransportation #handsonlearning #buoyancy #peconiccommunityschool

🌸Spring Soirée 2026. We are so full of gratitude after an evening that reminded us, once again, what an extraordinary community surrounds this school. Families, alumni, former teachers, longtime supporters, friends who have been part of PCS since the very beginning, and those who will help shape what comes next came together to celebrate 14 years of transformative work, vision, and dedication by our co-founders, Liz Casey and Kathryn Casey Quigley. In his tribute to Liz, PCS Board Chair Stephan Roussan offered a reflection that has stayed with us: that PCS has institutionalized love. It is a profound accomplishment and an incredible legacy — one that shapes every child who walks through our doors. Liz and Kathryn, we are forever grateful. And to everyone who bid, sponsored, donated, and raised a paddle — thank you. Your generosity ensures that what Liz and Kathryn built continues to grow and remains accessible to the children of the North Fork. It means curious, creative, compassionate kids get to keep learning in the way that only PCS makes possible. It means teachers who are supported in doing their most inspired work. And it means a school that sends children out into the world grounded in who they are and ready to make a difference. Here’s to a legacy of love.🤍 And special thanks to our generous Perseverance, Compassion, Responsibility, Patience, and in-kind and commercial sponsors, including Old Block Capital, @1943pizzabar @rgnyvineyard @lombardislovelanemarket @doublespeak_cocktails @littleramoysters @atelierfestoen @sepsfarmphotos #PCSSpringSoiree #honoringourcofounders #gratefultoourcommunity #lookingforwrad #peconiccommunityschool

🌸Tomorrow night is almost here! For 14 years, Liz Casey and Kathryn Casey Quigley have poured their hearts into building something truly special on the North Fork — and tomorrow, we get to celebrate them. A handful of tickets remain — link in bio to purchase. And if you can’t join us in person, the silent auction is open to everyone. Link in bio to bid. We’re so grateful to everyone in the PCS community participating in this momentous event, from near and far. Tomorrow night is for Liz and Kathryn — and for every person who helped make PCS what it is today. 🌸 Saturday, April 25, 2026 · 6–9pm · RGNY Vineyards, Riverhead, NY #pcsspringsoiree2026 #honoringourfounders #peconiccommunityschool

There’s a particular kind of learning that only happens in the field. As part of this trimester’s maritime transportation unit, 4th and 5th graders have been studying lighthouses — recently investigating how a Fresnel lens concentrates and projects light far enough to guide ships safely at sea. They tested that principle themselves in the classroom, shining flashlights with and without a magnifying glass and observing exactly how the light shifted. Then they brought that knowledge to Montauk. The Montauk Point Lighthouse — the oldest in New York State — is home to a historic Fresnel lens that spent decades on display in the museum before being recently restored and returned to the tower. Standing in front of it, students weren’t just seeing what they’d studied. They were seeing the real thing — the same lens that guided mariners for nearly a century, returned to the tower where it belongs. Students arrived with questions and hoped to confirm or refute their research — including a question they’d been sitting with since their classroom research: was the lighthouse really built in just five months? And when the light shone through the Fresnel lens in front of them, students recognized exactly what they were seeing. They had done that experiment. They knew how it worked. They also encountered a story they hadn’t anticipated: Georgina Reid, a textile designer with no formal engineering training, single-handedly saved the lighthouse from erosion through a terracing technique she developed herself — work that ultimately inspired the Army Corps of Engineers to build a seawall to protect the structure. And, of course, they had an opportunity to create observational sketches of the lens and the lighthouse to bring back to their documentation boards. For a school rooted in place-based learning, this is exactly the point: the East End isn’t just where we are. It’s part of how we learn – diving deeper into historical and cultural dimensions that come alive when we’re actively engaged in the field. Back in the classroom, students put that experience to work — returning to their writing to support a claim with evidence gathered on the tri

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