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Peconic Community School is an independent progressive school for students age 3-Grade 8.

The school nurtures children’s natural curiosity, imagination and inclination for creativity and play; and integrates the land, environment and community through the unique landscape of the North Fork, to inspire a life-long pursuit of knowledge, to build an awareness of self and the surrounding world, and to foster excellence in math, science, arts and humanities.

11/04/2026

Some of our students’ favorite people are heading to campus this Friday, and we’re looking forward to a very special morning planned just for them!

East End Jazz will fill our 6th Annual Grandparents and Special Friends Day with live music from start to finish, beginning with a reception hosted by Head of School Rachel Gomez Peterson. From there, guests will head into classrooms, where students will show them their learning spaces and the projects they’re working on. Then students and their guests will rotate through workshops together, including a performance by East End Jazz, improv with improv actor Sheila Head and a service project with Little Saint Nick Foundation , making gift bags and handmade cards for children arriving at local hospitals.

And to close the morning, we’ll gather to cut the ribbon on our brand-new swing set! It was made possible by last spring’s Giving Day, and so many of our grandparents and special friends were among the supporters who helped bring it to life. We can’t think of a better way to celebrate it than with them.

We can’t wait to see everyone Friday!

Grandparents and Special Friends Day | 6th Annual | November 6ht | Generational Joy | Learning Community | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

11/03/2026

📣 Our students practice having a voice every day at PCS, in morning meetings, when proposing a project or asking questions of a visiting expert. They learn early that their voice matters and that using it well is part of belonging to a community.

Today is our chance to show them what that looks like for adults on Election Day. Midterm and regional elections may get less attention, but they have a big impact on our daily lives and the shape of our national representation.

We hope you’ll get out to vote (if you haven’t already!) and bring a kid along with you! 🗳️

Election Day | VOTE | November 3 | Midterm Elections | Your Voice Matters | Civics in Action | Peconic Community School

11/02/2026

💵 MATCH SECURED! Thanks to longtime PCS supporter and community leader Joe McKay, gifts made to our Annual Fund through January 1 WILL BE DOUBLED up to $15,000!

From the start, Joe has believed in our vision that hands-on, real-world learning gives children the tools to make the world a better place. Fourteen years later, he has seen that vision come to life in our students and graduates and has made sustaining it a personal commitment.

Like most independent schools, PCS relies on giving to bridge the gap between tuition and the cost of educating each child. Your support, like Joe’s, ensures our students can head into the field, learn alongside experts and dig into projects that matter, while keeping a PCS education accessible to families of all backgrounds.

Double your impact today through the link in bio. 💙

GIVE 2026 | Year-End Appeal | Make a Gift to PCS | Year Fifteen | Hands-On Education for a Better World | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

10/30/2026

🔢 You can have it all. At PCS, big, meaningful projects and a rigorous math foundation go hand in hand. Math is both woven into our trimester-long Integrated Units and taught on its own in dedicated daily learning blocks, guided by our scope and sequence that aligns with New York State’s Next Generation Learning Standards.

Within that framework, math instruction at PCS balances three core competencies. Students build fluency with math facts and traditional algorithms so they can compute quickly and accurately. They develop conceptual understanding, learning why the math works so they can reason through problems they haven’t seen before. And they practice application, using math to solve real problems, often within the projects at the heart of our integrated units.

📥 We’re excited that families chose math as the first topic in our new Parent Curriculum Series, and we look forward to exploring all of this together on Monday, November 9 at 7pm. Current families will find the Zoom link in their inboxes.

We’d also love to share more with prospective families curious about how learning takes shape at PCS. Our co-founder Liz Casey is always glad to talk about our curriculum, answer questions and arrange a visit. Connect with her via the link in bio above. ⬆️

Math Education | Academic Rigor | Project-Based Learning | Parent Curriculum Series | Progressive Education || North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

10/28/2026

By this point in the fall, facilitators have spent several weeks getting to know each child: how they settle in each morning, the questions they keep coming back to, the friends they seek out, the work that makes them proud. October conferences are a chance to share that picture with families, and to hear what they see at home. Parents know their children in ways no one else can, and we’re grateful to learn from them.

Conversations begin with families’ questions and hopes for the year. Facilitators also share their observations, drawing on Patricia Carini’s Descriptive Review process, which invites us to look closely and thoughtfully at the whole child across five dimensions. In the upper grades, students add their own thoughts on their strengths, their areas for growth, and the goals they’ve set for themselves.

Conferences close with a few clear next steps, so families and facilitators can carry the year forward together. The understanding that comes out of these conversations helps to shape each child’s learning in meaningful ways.

Parent Facilitator Conferences | Parent Partnerships | Home-School Connection | Descriptive Review Process | Children as Learners and Community Members | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

10/26/2026

➡️ Student Interviews, Part 2 of our Middle School Intern’s quest to capture the student perspective of the PCS experience, with a special guest interviewer so our intern can take over filming, as well as more and more of the editing!

🎤 Do you have a question about the PCS student experience?

With a couple of weeks left in this trimester’s internship cycle, we have time for one more round of filming. DM your (kid-friendly) question!

Student Series | Middle School Internship Program | Student Voices | Hands-On Learning | Real-World Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

10/23/2026

🎃🎸This Sunday our 10 acre campus is open to the community for our 3rd Annual PCS Fall Harvest Festival! Bring the family, bring your neighbors and spend the afternoon dancing — Brady Rymer starts at 2! — painting pumpkins, drumming, making fairy houses, grabbing a burger and playing with friends.

Suggested donation $20 per family.

PCS co-founder Liz Casey will also offer tours of the school for anyone interested in learning more about our hands-on, real-world program for students ages 3 through grade 8.

PCS Harvest Festival | Sunday | October 25 | 1-4pm | Brady Rymer | Drumming | Farmers Market | Pumpkin Painting | Fairy Houses | Boxcar Burgers | Face Painting | Fire Hooping | School Tours

Boxcar Burgers LI ™️ Bowsprite

10/22/2026

🌾 This harvest season, every grade at PCS is studying Agriculture and Farming on the North Fork, taking the trimester to look at how food is cultivated in our backyards and on our community’s working farms through different lenses.

Our youngest students are starting with seeds, where food comes from and how a garden changes as the weather turns colder. Middle grades are spending time out in the field, at local farms and orchards, following food from farm to table and learning how pollinators and plants depend on each other. Older students are drawing on science and math to understand why certain crops have thrived in this soil and climate, and turning to history to see how potatoes, vineyards, and the families who farm them have shaped the North Fork, and what it will take to protect its farmland in the years ahead.

When the whole school is sharing a topic of study and digging deeper into our local roots, we develop a common language and a reason to learn from each other. Conversations don’t tend to stay inside one classroom. They carry into the hallways, out into the field and home to the dinner table, because this is learning that really matters to kids.

Integrated Unit | Trimester Study | Agriculture and Farming | Hands-On Learning | Real-World Learning | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

10/21/2026

GIVE 2026, our year-end fundraising appeal, is officially underway, and in Year 15, you can help sustain an education that prepares generation after generation to shape our future, starting right here on the North Fork.🌳

As we begin our fifteenth year, PCS has deep roots: a permanent home on ten acres in downtown Cutchogue, a new head of school leading us into our next chapter and a community that has carried this school from the very start.
Our students are growing up in a world that’s changing faster than any of us can predict. At PCS, they spend their days asking the right questions, heading into the field to work alongside experts, taking on real challenges in their own community and creating work they’re proud to share. This kind of learning grows the thinkers, makers and leaders tomorrow will need.

Your gift to the PCS Annual Fund sustains daily operations, essential programming, community initiatives and the need-based scholarships that support 30% of our students. This year, our goal is to raise $125,000 by January 1.

Help us show up for them in Year Fifteen. Make your gift through the link in bio.

GIVE 2026 | Year-End Appeal | Make a Gift to PCS | Year Fifteen | Hands-On Education for a Changing World | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

10/20/2026

This trimester, our community-to-classroom art series is bringing local working artists to students in every grade, from Early Childhood through Middle School to share their preferred mediums, methods, and ways of seeing.

This third session brought MaryJo and Larissa from The Studio at Gallery North to campus for students’ second experience with printmaking. Working in partners, students arranged foraged leaves and plants from their Agriculture study onto gelli plates, then layered translucent Akua inks with each pull to work with space, shape, texture and color.

Each art session connects to our schoolwide Agriculture unit and extends the community-partnered model that drives our Integrated Units: learning through real experience, working with professionals, and utilizing the North Fork as an extension of the classroom.

Community-to-Classroom | Visiting Artists | Printmaking | Integrated Art | Community Partners | Agriculture Unit | Progressive Education | North Fork, Long Island | Peconic Community School

Address

27685 Main Road
Cutchogue, NY
11935

Telephone

+16317348290

Website

http://www.peconiccommunityschool.org/

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