Grade Level
Middle
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PES 8th Graders Care for their Community during their Annual Mission Trip
PES 8th graders had their annual mission trip last month to Hilton Head Island, where they participated in a beach clean-up project, volunteered at a food pantry, spent time at a senior center, helped at the Boys & Girls Club, and participated in a car wash to raise money for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes through […]
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Middle Schoolers Serve as Coach Mentors to Junior Kindergarten Students
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 […]
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Palisades Episcopal School Shifts to Student-Centered Scheduling
Palisades Episcopal School (PES) is thrilled to share the adoption of a new school-wide schedule beginning this 2022-2023 school year called Student-Centered Scheduling. Student-Centered Scheduling incorporates the needs of a 21st century student and considers the biorhythms of our children, adjusting the times of day our students participate in a given subject/class. For instance, if […]
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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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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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Head of School Couch Conversations
In an ongoing effort to stay connected to our families and our community, PES has initiated a new Head of School series this year called Couch Conversations, with guests including founding trustees and other board members, veteran faculty and staff, community professionals and supporters, prestigious partners, students and alumni, and more! Watch our recently recorded […]
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PES 8th Graders Feed Families in Nicaragua and Charlotte area
PES 8th graders completed a service project with Servants with a Heart last week where they packed hundreds of bags of dehydrated stew (each bag=6 meals) to feed families in need in Nicaragua and the Charlotte area.
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Remote Summer School – Accessible, Flexible, Exceptional
Do you have students needing credit recovery or acceleration, confidence with key skills or enrichment this summer? Our Remote Summer Program offerings continue the level of care, connection, community and neuroscience-informed pedagogy that have been hallmarks of our transition to remote learning and that are foundational to the New Roads human-centered system of education. As […]
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PES Hosts 1st Ever Virtual Curriculum Night for Families and Prospective Families
Palisades Episcopal School hosted their first ever Virtual Family Curriculum Night, where families and prospective families were able to participate in hands-on science activities exploring physics, chemistry and biology, as well as a general science scavenger hunt, all led by our faculty and staff. Students and parents joined a Zoom call and used provided materials […]
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Personal Reflection Blog
Sharing various solutions for distance learning. Specific focus on sparking student curiosity and leveraging student curiosity as a strategic partner in the process.
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PTO Coffee: Mental Wellness at ODS
Oakhill recognized the need for a school-wide Wellness Counselor well before the emergence of COVID-19. However, the role has become essential to the well-being of students, staff, and school families as we navigate school life and grow accustomed to our new normal during a pandemic. Happy teachers make happy students, and happy students make happy […]
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PES Provides Community with Lunch & Learn on Immunity, Health & Wellness
Now more than ever, parents are looking for ways to help support their families’ immunity and well being. PES was thrilled to provide our community with this informative and timely presentation from guest speaker Ryha Pachin, MS, RDN, LDN, CLT, with Carolina Functional Nutrition, as she discusses key steps that families can take to live […]