We hope you got to know our valued school board members a little bit better this week and we hope you’ll take a moment to thank a school board member for their service and dedication to our public schools and the students they serve.
Could your child use some extra tutoring?
GaTutor is groundbreaking program powered by Georgia Virtual Learning. Georgia-certified teachers with solid content area expertise provide one-on-one tutoring sessions tailored for each individual student.
Best of all, it's entirely free! GaTutor offers flexibility for students, with tutoring sessions available outside of regular school hours. Students select the dates and times that work best for them, making academic success more accessible than ever!
We all know that our school’s staffing attendance is directly related to student outcomes, including student attendance. That is why we want to congratulate Pickens High School for having the Best Staff Attendance for February.
PCSD Receives Rural Workforce Development Grant to support workforce preparedness programs. View the article here: https://pickenscountyschools.org/press-releases/pickens-county-school-district-receives-rural-workforce-development-grant/
Due to the anticipated voter attendance for the Presidential primary and to provide the highest levels of safety for all schools and students, Tuesday, March 12th, 2024 will be a Digital Learning Day.
Congratulations to Harmony Elementary School received the Diamond Star School status for their dedication and support with the Georgia Schools Care initiative to raise funds for Georgia’s foster care children. Way to go!
Pickens High School receives honors in both AP STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Achievement and AP STEM. See the full article: https://pickenscountyschools.org/press-releases/pickens-high-receives-ap-honors/
Help a Child Smile Mobile Dental Program is offering dental services to students who
do not already have a dentist. Please contact your child's school nurse for more information.
Prevent Blindness of Georgia is offering to provide free vision screenings, eye exams, and glasses to students in need. See email for further information or call nurse Gail Smith at (706) 669-5327.
2024-25 Preschool Registration is Open!
Students must be 4 years old on or before September 1st. Applications will be accepted until 4:00 pm on March 25th and the lottery will be held on March 28th.
PreK registration opens on Monday! Watch for details on how to register.
PCSD has partnered with Just Right Readers to supply all third graders with books of their own. Three times during the semester students will receive personally curated collections of books which they can keep!
PCSD students, who are part of the Pickens Page Turners recently competed in a literacy-based competition at PHS on February 10th. The event, organized by the District’s Media Specialists, was sponsored by Kappa Kappa Iota and part of the Tome Society, a book club for students in grades 2-12 in which students in our local chapter read and created items to enter in the competition.
Students competed for metals and scholastic book fair gift certificates and had a presentation by local author, Nan Flickinger, who wrote Ellie J’s Apples, about writing and illustrating children’s books.
We wish all of our students, staff and their families a Happy Valentine's Day!
