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Douglas Glickert,
President
Colin Smith,
Vice President
Lisa Aspinall
Jillian Clausen
Maria Pereira
Michael Simpkins
Richard Sullivan
Dr. Lorenzo Licopoli
Superintendent
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Sports Schedule
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Click here for this month's PCSD Sports Schedule |
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Coming Soon
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Board of Education Meetings
Tuesday,
October 21
7:00 p.m. in the Administration Building
Tuesday,
November 4
7:00 p.m. at Oakside Elementary
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Coming Soon
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Homecoming and Football Alumni Day
Saturday
October 18
10:00 a.m. - Modified Football game at Depew Park
12:00 p.m. - Varsity Boys Soccer game at Torpy Field
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Welcome Tent with free hamburgers and hot dogs for Alumni at Torpy Field
2:00 p.m. - Varsity Football game Depew Park
Recruitment tables will be set up at Depew Park for all of our high school clubs from
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Remember to wear red in support of our
RED DEVILS!
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Save the Date
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The PHS Interact Club presents...
Safe
Halloween
Saturday,
October 25
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Children are invited to the PHS cafeteria for fun, games and safe trick-or-treating.
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Please Note
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Superintendent's Conference Day
Tuesday,
November 4
No school for students.
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Save the Date
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PHS
Student
Council
Blood Drive
Wednesday,
November 5
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Please donate
if you can.
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Save the Date
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Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner
Friday,
November 7
6:30 p.m.
Colonial Terrace
Restaurant
$50 per person
Buffet Dinner
(cash bar)
Please RSVP by November 1
Questions? Call
914-737-3300 ext. 316 or email lpanzanaro
@peekskillcsd.org
Click here for more information and a list of 2014 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees.
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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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Join Us!
Superintendent's Open House
October 15, 2014
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
On behalf of Superintendent Dr. Larry Licopoli, the Peekskill City School District invites any parent/guardian who is considering sending their student to the proposed Guardian Academy Charter School to join Dr. Licopoli for a Superintendent's Open House on October 15, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. During the Open House guests will tour our classrooms, meet our teachers and learn more about the Peekskill City School District. Shuttle buses will be made available to transport guests from building to building and the day will conclude with a question and answer session. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to 737-3300 ext. 303 by October 14. Please visit www.peekskillcsd.org for a detailed schedule of the day's events.
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New Community Schools Initiative Program Comes to Hillcrest Elementary
Back in June, the Peekskill City School District announced that Hillcrest Elementary School had been awarded a $500,000 grant from New York State for their Community Schools Initiative. The program, which has been funded for the next three years, has planned to address a wide range of support services for Peekskill's students and their families including health care, counseling, nutrition, and job preparation services. Now in its beginning stages, the new outreach program has begun to take shape as multiple representatives from agencies across Westchester settle into their new home at Hillcrest.
"I'm very excited about this," said Phyllis Elliott, the Project Director of the Hillcrest Community School Initiative (HCSI). "I see it as a chance to get the school to a really good place and help families and their children. I think every parent wants the best for their children, but they aren't always able to get it. Just having the medical, dental and mental health resources available at school is important."
"We want to help bring this community together by offering family support, advocacy and education so that the children can meet their academic goals," Elliott added.
For more on this story, please visit our blog here.
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Woodside Elementary Celebrates Constitution Day
In celebration of Constitution Day on Wednesday, September 17, teachers and students at Woodside Elementary engaged in numerous constitution-related activities. The morning began as students and staff met by the school's flag pole where Woodside music teacher, Melissa Schuberg lead the first graders in stirring renditions of "God Bless America" and "This Land is Your Land." The day continued as students spent their time writing classroom constitutions, partaking in age-appropriate constitution read alouds, and creating patriotic arts and crafts.
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New Theater Program Takes Center Stage at PCSD
For some, the art of acting comes naturally, while for others it is a skill to develop, but whether or not they were born to be on stage, Peekskill students at Hillcrest Elementary, Peekskill Middle School and Peekskill High School will now have the opportunity to develop their acting talents thanks to the District's newly implemented Theater Program.
In their theater classes students in grades 4 -12 will be learning various acting techniques and participating in activities that help to nurture self-expression while also building their confidence levels, public speaking abilities and teamwork skills. Additionally, higher level classes will have the chance to work on play-writing as well. Classes can look forward to field trips to professional theater productions, visits from acting troupes, and guest artists and lecturers.
"The student's eyes are going to brighten when they learn all of these aspects of the theater that they've never experienced before," said Peekskill's new theater teacher, Mr. Terry Sandler. "I'm so honored to be coming in to introduce the performing arts to Peekskill's students. It's an exciting addition to the school community."
For the complete article on this new program, visit our blog here.
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PHS Students Remember 9/11 with Art Projects
Eleventh grade Peekskill High School students in Ms. Brown's Creative Crafts art class recently completed one of their first projects of the new school year and helped to memorialize the events of 9/11 in doing so. The mixed media collages, which were constructed as collaboration between students, were made from red, white and blue recycled fabrics and hung in the high school lobby alongside hand drawn pictures.
The inspiration for the projects came from the Stitches of Hope project which commemorated the events of 9/11 by piecing together a number of flags, including one that once hung at the Twin Towers. Brown noted that artist Costa Vece, who happens to have art work on display locally at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Arts, was also a driving force behind the class project.
For more on this story, visit our blog here.
For more photos of this project, click here.
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PKMS Joins Hundreds of Schools Nationwide to 'Stomp Out Bullying'
Recently PKMS students and staff joined hundreds of other schools across the nation in an effort to "STOMP Out Bullying" by wearing blue on October 6 for Blue Shirt Day, which is held in recognition of October being National Bullying Prevention Month.
STOMP Out Bullying is the leading national bullying and cyber bullying prevention organization for kids and teens. The organization's efforts were extended to the Peekskill Middle School with the help of 7th Grade Guidance Counselor Jacqueline Kilanowski and Assistant Principal Dr. June Ann Campolongo.
"Days like today really do raise awareness about bullying," said PKMS Principal Jamal Lewis. "It makes those who might have felt that they didn't have a voice before- that they do now, and they know that folks are here to support them. This is a huge opportunity for us as a school to come together to stop others from getting hurt and work toward helping one another heal."
For the complete article on this topic, visit our blog here.
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Hundreds Turn Out for Charter School Hearing at PKMS
A huge thank you to all of the community members, parents, elected officials, PCSD students, teachers, staff and administrators who came out to show us their support at our Public Hearing regarding the proposed Guardian Academy Charter School of Peekskill. To learn more about what you can do to help protect Peekskill School District's resources and programs, please visit the Peekskill Community for Schools website here.
To view an informative presentation on the potential impact of the proposed Guardian Academy Charter School of Peekskill from our 'Coffee with the Superintendent' event, please click here.
(Haga clic aqui para ver la presentación en español.)
For student coverage of the event and an interview with Superintendent Dr. Larry Licopoli, check out the PHS Mercury here.
To watch the video of the entire Public Hearing, click here.
For photos from this event, please click 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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"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
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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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