PHS's Shiloh Banik helps every morning with her younger siblings. Here she is helping get her little sister into the car and ready for school. A #PCSDgrowingkindness student helping her family!
Visit our web pages to learn how you can grow kindness and be featured on our district pages! https://www.pickens.k12.ga.us/o/pcs/page/pcsd-growing-kindness
Education Support Professionals Day (ESP Day) is a day to recognize and appreciate the contributions of education support professionals (ESPs) to public education. ESPs are the people who keep schools running smoothly, including bus drivers, custodians, food service staff, administrative assistants, bookkeepers, and more. They make up over 40% of a school's staff, but their work is often overlooked. Today is your day and know that everyone in PCSD appreciates you!
Clarisse Robison and Emma Dilbeck at Tate Elementary are on their way to get the red transportation folder from the office.
#PCSDgrowingkindness helping one person at a time!
Just a reminder that all Pickens County Schools and the Central Office will be closed November 25th - 29th for Thanksgiving Break.
Celebrate American Education Week with us - after all, education is a work of heart!
Congratulations to Pickens Junior High's Kristin Deering for being named November's 5-8 Grade Teacher Dragon Award Winner!
John and Joshua Duncan are quite literally growing kindness at their Mimi's house. Here they are tending to the strawberries they started from tiny plants - literally #PCSDgrowingkindness.
Visit our web pages to learn how you can grow kindness and be featured on our district pages! https://www.pickens.k12.ga.us/o/pcs/page/pcsd-growing-kindness
Congratulations to Harmony Elementary's Jennie Quinton for being November's Maintenance and Custodial Dragon Award winner!
Tate and Kessley Hales showing their support for the Dragons. Tate was a Dragons Baseball player and Kessley has been cheering for the Dragons for years! #PCSDgrowingkindness
Visit our web pages to learn how you can grow kindness and be featured on our district pages! https://www.pickens.k12.ga.us/o/pcs/page/pcsd-growing-kindness
PCSD's extracurricular spotlight for this month is Jasper Middle School's Yearbook/Photography club! This year, JMS has fifteen fifth and sixth grade students who are meeting after school, twice a month, to learn about photography and take pictures for the yearbook. The students have been issued school cameras to use throughout each week to capture life here at JMS.
We are kicking off our PCSD Growing Kindness initiative today with Colton Wooten from Hill City Elementary School. Colton is the best big brother he can be. He takes care of his little sister by walking her into her pre-school every day. As a kindergarten student at Hill City Elementary, he is already a shining example of #PCSDgrowingkindness.
Would you like to grow kindness with us? Visit our web pages to learn how you can grow kindness and be featured on our district pages! https://www.pickens.k12.ga.us/o/pcs/page/pcsd-growing-kindness
November 13th is World Kindness Day and PCSD believes in the power of kindness to transform lives, create stronger communities, and build a brighter future for our children.
That's why we're excited to invite our families, and community to be part of our incredible journey towards growing kindness throughout our district, community, and beyond. We are kicking off our 30-day initiative today, on November 13th, for World Kindness Day and we are inviting you to grow kindness along with us and to share those acts of kindness so that we can build a more compassionate world.
Visit our Growing Kindness webpages (https://www.pickens.k12.ga.us/page/pcsd-growing-kindness) to learn about how you can join us to help create stronger connections and to be part of something bigger that inspires everyone to build a more compassionate world.
PCSD Volunteer Spotlight for November goes to WyldLife, Pickens Junior High ministry for students, led by 3 adult leaders and 17 'junior leaders' that are high schoolers who serve as WyldLife Leaders. WyldLife is all about meeting kids where they are, creating friendships, earning the right to be heard, and sharing the good news of the gospel with them. Wyldlife is for every junior high kid in Pickens County.
Congratulations to Tate Elementary School for having the best staff attendance for the month of October! Way to go!
Today we honor those who have served this nation in war and peace. Let us extend our heartfelt gratitude to them for their selflessness and recognize the sacrifices they have made as members of the United States Armed Forces. Happy Veterans Day.
PCSD is celebrating National STEM/STEAM Day. It's a day to celebrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEM/STEAM) and to encourage students to pursue careers in these fields.
Pickens County School District is hiring for several positions! Visit our website at https://www.applitrack.com/pickens/onlineapp/default.aspx?all=1?embed=1 for more information or to apply!
Congratulations to Tate Elementary School for having the best student attendance for the month of October!
Pickens High School was recently recognized as a 2023-2024 Math Leader School by the Georgia Department of Education. Pickens High was awarded recognition for High School Growth. Math Leader qualifications are based on students achieving the Proficient Learner level or above on the Georgia Milestones mathematics assessments. Read our full article here: https://www.pickens.k12.ga.us/article/1861606.
This month's PCSD Student Spotlight goes to Jasper Middle School's Lexi Heine!
"Lexi is an avid reader and has been leading the way in JMS's new Reading is Rewarding Program! Lexi has been reading great books and writing about them. She has wonderful insight and has challenged herself with her book selections," said Mrs. Steinhauer from JMS's Media Center.
The Reading is Rewarding Program is available to all students at JMS! Students can stop by the Media Center for directions and more information.
