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Douglas Glickert,
President
Colin Smith,
Vice President
Lisa Aspinall
Jillian Clausen
Maria Pereira
Michael Simpkins
Joseph Urbanowicz
Dr. Lorenzo Licopoli
Superintendent
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Sports Schedule
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Coming Soon
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Board of Education Meetings
Tuesday,
May 20
&
Tuesday,
June 3
Public Session begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Administration Building
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Save the Dates!
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PCSD Spring Sing-a-Longs & Concerts
May 23
Grade 3 Spring Concert
9:30 a.m.
Hillcrest
May 20
Spring Concert at PHS
7:00 p.m.
PKMS
May 22
Spring Concert
7:00 p.m.
PHS
May 14
Chorus/Band Concert
7:00 p.m.
May 28
Spring Band/Chorus "Arts on the Green" Concert
PHS Parade Field
6:00 p.m.
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Save the Dates!
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PKMS National Jr. Honor Society Ceremony
6:30 p.m.
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Save the Date!
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Spring Sports Awards Night
June 4, 2014
PHS Cafeteria
7:00 p.m.
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Join PEF
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The
Peekskill Education Foundation
Needs You!
Looking for an effective way to help out the Peekskill City Schools? PEF's mission is to raise funds for local education. They are looking for board members and volunteers.
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Join Now!
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Committee
Volunteers
Needed
Share your voice and ideas, work with friends, neighbors and Board Members, and make the Peekskill City School District the best it can be. Volunteers are needed for committees on financial planning, education, wellness, facilities and communications. Please email Ms. Debra McLeod at
dmcleod@peekskillcsd.org
or call her at
914-737-3300 x342.
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2014-2015 Budget Vote
and School Board Election
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
ONE POLLING PLACE:
Peekskill High School
Polls open 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
The PCSD PTO will be hosting a "Meet the Candidates" night on Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00 p.m. in the District Administration Building. For more information on this year's candidates, click here.
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PKMS' Nikia Carter Places 2nd in Statewide Chemistry Competition
Congratulations to Peekskill Middle School student Nikia Carter who came in second place out of 600 competitors from across New York State that participated in the "You Be The Chemist" Challenge on April 26 in Tarrytown, NY. Carter's fellow PKMS teammate Stanley Landivar also made it to the final round of the contest. Great job to all of our students who entered the competition and go Nikia!
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Oak Sapling Finds New Home at Peekskill High School
The Peekskill City School District recently celebrated their first of what many hope will be a new tradition at Peekskill High School. In honor of Arbor Day, the District held a tree planting on the parade field at PHS, and a swamp white oak sapling was given a new home to flourish and grow.
The school's first Arbor Day celebration was organized by the high school's 4H/Gardening Club, school and district administrators, members of Peekskill's Parks and Recreation Board and community members. The tree planting is the first step in the District's plan to beautify the parade field. At the ceremony students read poems and facts about trees and sang songs as well. Councilman Joe Torres was also on hand to present the club with a Proclamation from the city of Peekskill.
For more on this story, visit our blog here.
For a photo album from this event, click here.
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Woodside's Dilenia Martinez Receives Today's Students Tomorrow's Teachers' Golden Apple Award
On May 2, 2014, Woodside Elementary teacher Dilenia Martinez was presented with a Certificate of Merit from the Office of the County of Executive of Westchester. Ms. Martinez also received the Today's Students Tomorrow's Teachers' Perkins Scholar Golden Apple Award in recognition of her 10 years of teaching as well as her unwavering dedication and commitment to the students of the Peekskill City School District. Congratulations Ms. Martinez!
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HVSF Actors Modernize Shakespeare for PHS Freshman
For over five years now, ninth grade English students at Peekskill High School have had the privilege of participating in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's Five Week Residency program as part of their freshman year curriculum. The program comes to the school thanks to a grant from the Frog Rock Foundation and pairs students with teaching artists from the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, which is based out of Garrison, New York.
This year, at the end of the five week workshop, the HVSF troupe gave a culminating performance of Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare's beloved comedy. To make the play more relatable to a young generation, the actors gave it a modern twist by taking the story into the digital age and incorporating the use of present day technology, such as cell phones and social networks.
For the complete article on this story, visit our blog here.
For a photo album from these events, click here.
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PHS Drama Club Presents Little Shop of Horrors
Everyone's favorite man-eating plant made a special appearance in our city when the Peekskill High School Drama Club put on an amazing performance of Little Shop of Horrors on April 25 and 26. For over 100 photos of our cast, crew and their spring production, visit our photo album here.
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PKMS Environmental Club Presents at Wheelabrator Symposium
The Peekskill Middle School Environmental Club recently traveled to Sunrise, Florida to present their 2014 research project titled, "The Hudson River: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," along with 15 other middle schools from across the Eastern Seaboard at Wheelabrator Technologies' Environmental Symposium. For the first time ever, our student's presentation was streamed live so viewers could watch from home. We are very proud of our students who did an excellent job representing Peekskill schools at the symposium!
For more on the PKMS Environmental Clubs' project, check out this article.
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Peekskill City School District Appoints Three New Principals
At a Board of Education meeting on May 6, the Peekskill City School District announced the appointment of three new administrators at the District. The new hires come to Peekskill as part of the District's Reorganization Plan, which was announced in late February. Mr. Rolando Briceņo, Mr. Jamal Lewis and Dr. Cassandra Hyacinthe will be filling the positions of Woodside/Uriah Hill Principal, Peekskill Middle School Principal, and Peekskill High School Principal effective as of July 1, 2014.
"We were looking for people who had the right fit for the needs of our District and we believe we have found them," said Peekskill Superintendent Dr. Larry Licopoli at Tuesday night's meeting. "In our new reorganization design we've assured that no one is left alone, and we are all here to support each other and work together as an administrative team. I want to congratulate all of our new hires and obviously, the best is yet to come."
For the full article on this story, visit our blog here.
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Our Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Larry Licopoli provides regular updates on our District's latest efforts, programs and happenings. You can find these posts on our District's website homepage in the "Superintendent's Corner." To catch-up on important District news, you may visit the archive of these updates by clicking here.
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Keep in Touch!
See what our students are writing about! Visit Peekskill High School's newspaper, Mercury by clicking on the red "M" below.
Follow this link for a schedule of TV broadcasts or tune into Peekskill School District cable TV on channel 77 and Verizon TV channel 32.
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"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
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We want to hear from you.
Please contact Superintendent Larry Licopoli by calling 914-737-3300 x303, or email enews@peekskillcsd.org |
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Peekskill CSD Communications
Laura Belfiore, Editor
Peekskill City School District |
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