PES 7th and 8th graders are participating in a yearlong Living Lab project where students have created resumes, applied/interviewed for campus jobs, and are earning a faux salary where they then must budget rent and other fictional daily bills. For the past several months, two middle schoolers have sacrificed their recess time to help coach our junior kindergartners in basketball training techniques during their weekly PE class.
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PES Middle School Girls’ Sewing Service Project for Frontline Medical Workers
PES Middle School Girls completed a service project for frontline medical workers using new life skills learned during their devotion classes this year. They sewed buttons on 30+ headbands donated by Total Stockroom (Huntersville, NC) for medical workers to attach to their masks to avoid ear abrasions. Another PES student (and her mother) also made […]
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PES Middle School Teachers Share Solutions for Strengthening Retention
As a way to strengthen retention and support enrollment for our Middle School (grades 5-8), PES Middle School teachers prepare and facilitate “pop-in” lessons, where they surprise 4th graders with mini activities over the course of a week. From developing their observation and inferencing skills through art with our Humanities teacher, to experimenting with probability […]
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PES Middle School Service Campers Give Back to the Community in BIG Ways
PES offers a Middle School Service Camp every summer to rising 5th-9th graders that models our mission to challenge students’ minds, bodies and spirits while also inspiring them to be caring citizens and world changers. Our campers spent last week giving back to the community in BIG ways by making/delivering sandwiches for neighbors in need, […]
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