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🐋🚢 Our first and second graders spent the day at Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum as part of our Marine Transportation Integrated Unit, a trimester-long exploration of the history and culture of local marine transportation on Long Island. The two grades are studying the unit through different lenses. First graders are focused on whaling boats this trimester. Second graders are studying shipbuilding, including how simple machines and Bernoulli’s principle of flight are applied in the construction of vessels. At the museum, students moved through seven stations together, learning about the history of whaling on Long Island, including its roots in Native American practice and how early settlers learned from indigenous communities. They studied the difference between a whaling ship and a whaling boat, and saw one of only twelve surviving original whaling boats in the United States. They learned about the species of whales that were historically hunted in this region, explored an exhibit built to replicate the interior of a whaling ship, and examined real artifacts connected to life at sea. Second graders also applied their classroom learning directly: after a lesson on simple machines, they used that knowledge to build their own boats. This kind of fieldwork is central to how learning works at PCS. Going to the source, handling real artifacts, and connecting classroom study to the actual places and history of Long Island is what place-based learning looks like in practice. So many thanks to @cshwhalingmuseum for hosting our classes in such a targeted and engaging way. #coldspringharborwhalingmuseum #marinetransportation #integratedstudiesunit #fieldresearch #peconiccommunityschool

🎪Every kid should get to run away with the circus at least once — don’t miss your kid’s chance at PCS this August!

PCS Summer Circus School is a one-week intensive for kids ages 7 through 17, led by the professional artists of @ci

🎪Every kid should get to run away with the circus at least once — don’t miss your kid’s chance at PCS this August! PCS Summer Circus School is a one-week intensive for kids ages 7 through 17, led by the professional artists of @circussplendiferous Participants train in aerial silks, juggling, acrobatics, and clowning — and perform in a live showcase for family and friends at the end of the week. August 24–28 | 9am–3pm | Open to all kids in the community. Spots are limited. Link in bio to register. ⬆️ #pcscircusschool #circussplendiferous #august24-28 #northforkkids #peconiccommunityschool

🔦🔎As part of this trimester’s maritime transportation unit, 4th and 5th graders are investigating lighthouses, and they brought some of their research to life with an experiment aimed at discovering how lenses concentrate and brighten light. By shining flashlights with and without a magnifying glass, then observing, drawing and describing how the light shifted from wide and dim to focused and bright, students gained firsthand knowledge of how a Fresnel lens works to shine light far out to sea to keep sailors safe. The Fresnel lens, invented in the 19th century specifically to solve this problem, revolutionized lighthouse design. Later this week, they’ll see one up close at the Montauk Lighthouse. #lighthouses #maritimetransportation #integratedstudiesunit #handsonlearning #peconiccommunityschool

🌸 Honoring the sisters who started it all! Fourteen years ago, Liz Casey and Kathryn Casey Quigley opened the doors of Peconic Community School with nine students, one teacher, and an unshakeable belief that education can change the world. The schoo

🌸 Honoring the sisters who started it all! Fourteen years ago, Liz Casey and Kathryn Casey Quigley opened the doors of Peconic Community School with nine students, one teacher, and an unshakeable belief that education can change the world. The school that has grown from that single classroom has been changing children’s lives ever since. Today, PCS is a thriving community of nearly 100 students and 25 staff members, with a permanent 10-acre campus in downtown Cutchogue and a reputation for doing something genuinely different for children and families on the North Fork. Behind all of it: two sisters with a shared vision, extraordinary dedication, and a deep love for this community. This year’s Spring Soirée is an opportunity to honor that legacy and to celebrate what comes next. As Liz and Kathryn move into a new chapter, PCS moves with them, rooted in the mission and vision they built and ready to spread its wings. We hope you’ll join us on April 25th at RGNY Vineyards in Riverhead. A handful of tickets are still available — link in bio to purchase.⬆️ All proceeds benefit the PCS Annual Fund. Saturday, April 25, 2026 6–9pm RGNY Vineyards, 6025 Sound Ave, Riverhead, NY Many thanks to our generous sponsors, including our corporate sponsors: Responsibility Sponsors Old Block Capital @1943pizzabar In-Kind Sponsors @rgnyvineyard @lombardislovelanemarket @littleramoysters @doublespeak_cocktails @atelierfestoen @sepsfarmphotos #SpringSoireeFundraiser #April25 #NorthForkLongIsland #ProgressiveEducation #PeconicCommunitySchool

Welcoming our community back for the first Monday at school after spring break. Morning meetings are circling up, the youngest learners are finding their centers, and the middle grades are easing back into familiar work and new projects for a new trimester. No rush — just a community that knows itself, settling back into the rhythms, routines and relationships that make this place feel like home. So glad to be able to land here together. #welcomeback #learningcommunity #rhythmsandrelationships #northforklongisland #peconiccommunityschool

🌿 The North Fork has a different kind of summer — eight weeks of outdoor play, hands-on making, and nature-centered discovery for children ages 3 through Grade 4. PCSummer is rooted in the progressive philosophy of 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 choose daily from electives taught by real community experts — including drama, herbal studies, survival skills, music, and a weekly maker lab. 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. ⬆️ #northforklongisland #summercamp #northforkkids #outdoorsummer #peconiccommunityschool

This winter’s community internship cycle just wrapped, and today Middle Schoolers offered presentations to their families and the school community, reflecting on their experiences, their successes, their challenges, and all that they learned. We’re so incredibly proud of and impressed by how eloquently they spoke about their experiences, how poised they were during Q&A, and how graciously they expressed their gratitude to everyone involved in the program from teachers, to hosts, to drivers. Bravo, 7th and 8th!👏👏👏 The PCS Middle School internship program places students in real community organizations for eight weeks at a time, twice per year. This trimester, our students worked alongside the staff and leadership of six North Fork organizations: North Fork Animal Welfare League, Greenport Village Hall, Aldo’s Coffee Company, Mattituck Village Cheese Shop, Beds and Borders Plant Nursery, and CAST. In each setting, students showed up as contributing members of a working community — following direction, taking initiative, building relationships with adult professionals, and developing skills in customer service, communication, and work ethic that no classroom lesson can fully replicate. Presenting to families and peers is an essential part of the learning itself, one that asks students to step back and articulate what the experience gave them. We are deeply grateful to each of these organizations for opening their doors to our students this trimester and making this kind of learning possible. @nfawlriverheadanimalshelter @aldoscoffeecompany @thevillagecheeseshop @bedsandbordersinc @castnorthfork #peconiccommunityschool #middleschool #communityinternships #placebasedlearning #northforklongisland

🌳 Middle School Preview Night — Tonight at 5:30 PM.

Join us this evening to hear about our grades 6–8 program — intentionally designed to meet the unique needs of adolescents, leverage their emerging strengths, and raise the bar f

🌳 Middle School Preview Night — Tonight at 5:30 PM. Join us this evening to hear about our grades 6–8 program — intentionally designed to meet the unique needs of adolescents, leverage their emerging strengths, and raise the bar for what a middle school program can be. Our teaching team, current students, and recent graduates will share what makes the PCS Middle School experience so unique: the leadership roles students hold across the school, the community internships that take them into the real world, and the two-year capstone projects they design and carry out on their own. All families welcome. Childcare with pizza available.🍕 We look forward to seeing you at 5:30. Kindly RSVP to liz@peconiccommunityschool.org #adifferentkindofmiddleschool #middleschoolpreviewnight #march31 #5:30pm #peconiccommunityschool

🌊So grateful for the opportunity to work with community expert Jen Murray of @turtlebackfarm this afternoon at Bailie Beach in Mattituck. Jen guided students in installing shorebird fencing to protect the nesting areas of the endangered piping plover, while another group of students worked to remove marine debris from shoreline. As Jen pointed out, there’s still a lot of work to do to mitigate the erosion damage caused by this winter’s storms, but students made a big difference to nesting birds with their efforts this afternoon. Thank you, Jen! #fieldwork #communityservice #shorelineconservation #northforklongisland #peconiccommunityschool

🌱 Spring break is less than a  week away — have you signed your child up for The Wonder Lab yet?

This year’s Wonder Lab is packed with mixed media art, outdoor fort building, scavenger hunts, and science experiments — a week

🌱 Spring break is less than a week away — have you signed your child up for The Wonder Lab yet? This year’s Wonder Lab is packed with mixed media art, outdoor fort building, scavenger hunts, and science experiments — a week of hands-on fun for curious kids ages 3 through Grade 3. The Wonder Lab is open to all children in the community — you don’t have to be a PCS family to join us! Dates: April 6–10 Time: 9am–3pm Ages: 3 through Grade 3 Link in bio to register! ⬆️ #springbreak #april6-10 #pcswonderlab #northforklongisland #peconiccommunityschool

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