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Congratulations to Shayla York who won this year's "Best of Show Award" for her perspective drawing of Hogwarts.
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Congratulations to this year's Prom King and Queen - Justin Alexander and Shayla York.
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Our 6th grade VIP lunch is on Friday, May 18, 2012. This is a time that all of our students really look forward to. The sixth graders will be bringing home more information soon. We look forward to having these special visitors in our building for these lunches.
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The kindergarten promotion celebration is scheduled for Tuesday, June 5 at 6:30 p.m.
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Upper elementary awards night is scheduled for Thursday, June 7 2012 at 6:30 p.m.
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Our elementary students will be starting the Pirate Fitness Club on Wednesday, May 2. Students can walk and/or run around the playground at recess and get punches on their punch cards. After completing their punch cards they turn them into the office to earn prizes like shoelaces, toe tokens, water bottles, Gatorades, and t-shirts. Many students really enjoyed this program last year and we hope to have even more participate and enjoy it this year.
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We have held our kindergarten roundup but we can still sign students up and get them assesses if you were not able to make it to our round up. If you or anyone you know has a child that will be 5 on or before December 1, 2012 they can start kindergarten in the fall. If you have a child that you would like to register for kindergarten please call the Peck Elementary Office at 378-5200 ext. 1 to schedule an appointment or just stop in and see us.
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The date for Graduation this year is Sunday, May 20 at 1:00 p.m. in the high school gymnasium.
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NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
Congratulations to the new 2012-13 NHS members: Ashley Breakey, Crystal Dhooghe, Courtney Gordon, Leigh Knox, Samantha Murray, Hailey Sharrard, Nicholas Reese, Wesley Bissett, Keegan Gallagher, Larissa Gerstenberger, Chelsea Lofton, Megan Pitts, Sarah Shell, Megan Woollen. Also Congratulations to next years officers: Elizabeth Berry, President, Terry Warner, Vice President, Jessica Grifka, Secretary and Miranda Davis, Treasurer. A special thanks to the outgoing officers; Shayla York, President / Secretary and Brett Dankenbring, Vice President / Treasurer.
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Thank you to our PPTO for the purchase of new equipment, such as balls, rackets, jump ropes and a variety of other things, for our students to play with on the playground. The support that our PPTO provides for our students is greatly appreciated. We are fortunate to have such a supportive and active group of parents in our school.
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Congratulations to all of our Battle of the Books teams who competed in Brown City on March 13. Our 6th grade team of: Cherokee Johnson, Emma Thompson, Kayla Plenda, Kaylee Ureel and Courtney Angebrandt took 1st place. Our 5th grade team of: Zac Molesworth, Allison Guigar, Neil Mifsud, Abbey Bullis and Cody Babcock took 2nd place. Our 4th grade team of: Elexia Burgess, Emma Engler, Kaitlyn Fletcher, Justin Hewitt, Taylor Sempf and Adriana Stull took 3rd place. This was a great effort by all teams and we are proud of each and every one of them. GREAT JOB!!!
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Congratulations to Shayla York who has been selected as a finalist for Michigan’s 32nd Annual Homecoming Queen Selection to be held Saturday, March 31st in Lansing. Shayla will be competing for a scholarship and a chance to represent Michigan in the America’s Homecoming Queen National Finals. Good Luck, Shayla!
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Congratulations to Larissa Gerstenberger and Courtney Gordon for winning Reserve Champion for Equestrian in Class D. The girls showed at four meets, two in Caro and two in Bad Axe. Good Job Girls!
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There will be two Valedictorians at Peck High School this year. Grant Fons and Shayla York will share the top honors having received the best GPA’s in the senior class. Cori Zuehlke has the honor of being this years Salutatorian for the class of 2012. Congratulations to all three students for their hard work and accomplishments over the past four years
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Seven Man, slow-pitch Softball tournament will make its debut on June 9, 2012, at the Peck High School. Never heard of it before? Well, as far as we know, there’s never been a tournament quite like this before. That’s what makes it so exciting!!! The first 12 teams to register and pay will play - $70 entrance fee – up to nine players on the roster – but only 7 on the field at one time. There will be seven innings, two outs per inning. Open to anyone, male or female, age 13 on up. Forms are available in the Peck High School office. Please call 810-378-5200 if you have any questions. It’s going to be a great day; you don’t want to miss this one! Oh, you don’t need to worry about bringing a sack lunch either; there will be a concession stand with lots of goodies. It’s going to be a great day, so don’t miss the Seven Man Softball tournament on June 9!
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The Head Start program is now starting to take applications for the fall 2012-13 program. Please contact Carol Burgess if you have a 3 or 4 year-old and are interested in our NEMCSA Head Start program. The number to call for more information is: 810-346-4114 or Toll free Number is 1-866-851-1674.
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Please be aware that Peck Community Schools will no longer be renting out tables and chairs as it has in the past. This is due to a variety of reasons which include damage to furniture, furniture not being clean when returned, and some items not being returned at all.
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Saturday March 24th was the 2012 State MSBOA Solo and Ensemble Festival at Lapeer East High School. Peck had five events qualify at District Festival. Three went on to perform at States. Larissa Gerstenberger and Liz Berry performed a Flute and Clarinet duet and received a Division I rating, Miranda Davis performed a Flute Solo and received a II and Nickie Sheldon performed a Trumpet Solo and received a III. All events are rated from I-V; I being the highest. The solos involved a prepared piece, memorized scales and sight reading. The girls did a Great Job and we are all very proud of them! Congratulations!!
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Please remember that students who walk or get dropped off at school should not be here before 7:45 a.m. When students arrive at school they are to either go down and eat breakfast if they are eating at school or they are to line up with their peers. No student is to go to their locker before the students are dismissed from the line to go down to their classrooms with the exception of 6th grade safety patrol students. Unless students are dropped off out back and walk through the hallway to get to the lines they are not to be in the hallway prior to the start of the school day. We request that parents drop off their students and let students get themselves prepared and into class as we need our students to be independent. If you need to communicate with the teacher please send in a note or set up a conference time with the teacher. Do not enter the classroom to “help” students get their stuff ready as this does not promote the independence that students need in order to be successful.
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We would like to welcome Danielle Bezotte to our elementary staff. Through an increase in our Title I funding we were able to add a Reading teacher position to work with our struggling readers to help them get up to grade level. Danielle comes to us with very strong skills, strategies and training in teaching struggling readers and we are excited to have her on board. She will start working with students on Monday, January 30, 2012.
We also welcome Ashley Stephenson, who is a student teacher through Saginaw Valley State University in our kindergarten classroom. She will be with us until this spring. She is already learning a lot and jumping in to get her feet wet with teaching kindergarteners.
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Peck elementary staff members have been trained in a bullying prevention and intervention program. We will be training our students in this program within the next couple of weeks. This is a program designed to teach victims of bullying how to stop the bullying, bystanders who witness bullying how to step in and stop the bullying, bullies how to stop bullying and respond when told to stop and adults how to be consistent and to step in stop bullying situations. Ask your child to have them let you know what Stop/Walk/Talk means when they learn about it at our assembly that is coming up soon.
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Congratulations to Tim Logghe for being a finalist in the MHSAA & Farm Bureau Scholar Athlete. Good Luck Tim.
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PRINCESS & PRINCE CANDIDATES
Tara Thompson & Kyle Abrego
Courtney Groat & Login Sarnac
Katelyn Molesworth & Hunter Welsh
Cheyenne Johnson & Ben Hufford
Kimberly Quandt & Dylan Dankenbring
Katelinn Bower & David Weller
QUEEN & KING CANDIDATES
Kaitlyn Correa-Streetman & Brandyn York
Tara VanConant & Ryan Peck
Larissa Gerstenberger & Anthony Caulkins
Jessica Grifka & Andrew Pathic
Chelsea Havens & Brett Dankenbring
Katie Groat & Justin Alexander
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2010 / 2011 yearbooks are in. Please see Miss Davidson to pick up your yearbook.
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On Friday, November 4th the parents of Peck Community Schools’ students were treated to a free meal and the opportunity to participate in classroom activities like their children do during the school day. Parents learned about and experienced the new technologies our school has implemented. For example, math and science teachers Todd Prill, Amanda Osantoski, and Carrie Robinet taught parents how to use our new cutting-edge graphing calculators. After giving a short history lesson highlighting Peck alumni, social studies teacher Bob Karasiewicz and industrial arts teacher Jamie Quicksall challenged parents with a fun quiz using the new Smart Response system, which provides immediate feedback. English teacher Julia Cramer demonstrated our new document cameras and over-head projectors, along with engaging teaching tools like Prezi, PowerPoint, and Visuwords. Finally, social studies/foreign language teacher Joanna Holiday-Kinel demonstrated and offered parents the experience of blended-learning using Moodle, our online course management system, which is used in several of her classes. Those who attended were delighted with the surprisingly rich and engaging technology their children learn with at Peck Community Schools.
Parent involvement is important to the success of our students and the school; we appreciate all those who attended.
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Thank you to all of the parents that showed up to conferences. We heard many positive comments from you. Any time you have questions or concerns please call the school at 810-378-5200. In addition you can email school staff if you choose. The staff at Peck Schools is very good about responding to your emails.
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Peck Elementary School is part of the PE Nut grant which is funded by the USDA. You will see more information about this grant soon. It does not provide actual money for our school but a lot of resources, materials and nutrition education for our students. It is focused on kindergarten, 2nd, and 4th grades but students from all of the grades will get the benefits of some of the nutrition education information.
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Please remember that students who walk or get dropped off at school should not be here before 7:45 a.m. When students arrive at school they are to either go down and eat breakfast if they are eating at school or they are to line up with their peers. No student is to go to their locker before the students are dismissed from the line to go down to their classrooms with the exception of 6th grade safety patrol students. This is a school wide rule designed to keep students safe and orderly. Unless students are dropped off out back and walk through the hallway to get to the lines they are not to be in the hallway prior to the start of the school day. We request that parents drop off their students and let students get themselves prepared and into class as we need our students to be independent. If you need to talk to or communicate with the teacher please send in a note or set up a conference time with the teacher. Do not enter the classroom to “help” students get their stuff ready as this does not promote the independence that students need in order to be successful.
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