Durham Community School PTA

09/03/2026

🍦 A Sweet Start to the School Year! 🍦

Join us for the DCS PTA Ice Cream Social! Come grab a treat, catch up with friends, meet some new DCS families, and enjoy some time together.

📅 Friday, September 11
⏰ 4:30–5:30 PM
📍 DCS Playground
🍨 Free ice cream + GF/DF options available!

Want to help make the evening extra sweet? SignUpGenius is in the comments! 👇

Hope to see you there! 🎉

08/27/2026

🍎 Here’s to a New School Year! ✏️📚

As we embark on a new school year, we want to take a moment to recognize and thank our previous PTA officers — Kate Parkin, Jenika Pouliot, and Mindy Woerter — for serving our school community with so much passion, heart, and dedication. 💙

We are incredibly grateful for the time, energy, and love you poured into making DCS such a special place for our students, families, and staff. Thank you for all you have done! ❤️

We’re excited to build on that wonderful foundation and are looking forward to a fabulous year ahead! 🎉📚

Here’s to a great school year, DCS! 💙

06/23/2026

And just like that, another school year comes to a close! ☀️🚲🚌

As the buses pulled away and students pedaled home for the last time this year, our teachers and staff were there to send them off with smiles, waves, and best wishes for the summer ahead.

Have a safe, fun, and relaxing summer filled with adventure, laughter, and lasting memories. We’re looking forward to seeing everyone again in the fall! ❤️

06/09/2026

Help celebrate Mr. Pidden’s retirement and his many contributions to the DCS community over the past 23 years!

Join the ice cream social *this Thursday afternoon* (details below).

Contribute a message to a commemorative video that will be shared with Mr. Pidden after the last day of school. Use the link below to add your (or your child’s!) message:
https://share.vidday.com/e/r-afzn0a

Shhhh! These are both surprises!

Thank you for helping us celebrate Mr. Pidden and all he has meant to DCS!

05/26/2026

What a great day at the DCS PTA Jogathon! 🏃‍♀️💙🏃‍♂️

Thank you to all of our students, staff, families, and community members who helped make this year’s event such a success. The energy, smiles, and support were amazing to see!

There’s still time to send in donations or pledges to help support DCS programs, field trips, enrichment opportunities, and more. We’ll share the PayPal link in the comments below 👇

Thank you for supporting our school community! 💛

05/19/2026

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ The DCS PTA Jogathon is THIS Friday! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

We’re excited to cheer on our DCS students as they walk, jog, and run with their buddy classes during our annual Jogathon fundraiser! 💙💛

There’s still time to support our school! Donations can be:
✔️ Sent into school with your child (cash or check made payable to DCS PTA)
✔️ Made online through PayPal (link in the comments 👇)

Every donation helps support field trips, enrichment opportunities, student and staff wellness initiatives, special projects, and more at DCS.

Thank you for supporting our students and school community! ✨

The balloon arch finish line means the end of the jogathon and… POPSICLES! 🥵

05/17/2026

Final weeks of Hannaford Helps Schools!

If you’ve been collecting School Dollars, don’t forget to redeem them and select DCS. Every code adds up and helps support our students and teachers.

Thank you for supporting our school community!

05/12/2026

What a year it has been for the DCS PTA! 💙 Thanks to the incredible support of our DCS families and community, we’ve been able to fund nearly $20,000 in field trips, enrichment opportunities, staff and student wellness initiatives, special projects, events, and more this school year!

We were especially blown away by the generosity shown during Teacher Appreciation Week — with over $650 donated, plus countless food, drink, flower, treat, and gift card donations. Thank you for helping us celebrate our amazing DCS staff! 🍎✨

But we have one more big event left this year — our 4th Annual Jogathon on Friday, May 22! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Students will walk, jog, or run with their buddy classes during school hours while collecting pledges from friends, family, and neighbors to help support future PTA programs and activities.

If every DCS student raises just $20, we’ll hit our fundraising goal! Every donation — big or small — makes a difference.

📌 We’ll share pledge forms and donation links in the comments below!

Thank you for continuing to support our students, staff, and school community! 💛💙

05/11/2026

What an incredible week celebrating the amazing teachers and staff at Durham Community School! 💙🍎✨

Teacher Appreciation Week 2026 was filled with kindness, generosity, and so much community support. Throughout the week, donations of baked goods, granola bars, chips, crackers, drinks, Paypal donations, gift cards, and scratch tickets helped us spoil the incredible educators and staff who make DCS such a special place every day.

We kicked off the week with delicious bagels and cream cheese from Forage Market and surprised staff with freshly blended fruit smoothies. Tuesday, students were able to give flowers to teachers and staff members who mean so much to them thanks to donations from Beautiful Mess Farm, Shaw's, and our wonderful Durham community. Wednesday featured a delicious taco bar provided by the PTA, Thursday brought fresh popped popcorn, and we wrapped up the week on Friday with pizza from Get & Go and lots of delicious salad.

To everyone who donated money, food, drinks, flowers, gift cards, raffle items, time, and energy — thank you for helping us show our appreciation in such a meaningful way. The DCS PTA and Durham community truly showed up for our educators this week.

To all DCS teachers and staff: thank you for your patience, compassion, hard work, and dedication to our students every single day. You are what makes DCS so special, and we are incredibly grateful for each and every one of you. 💙

05/09/2026

📣 PTA Meeting Reminder! 📣

Join us Monday, May 11 as we come together to recap Teacher Appreciation Week and put the finishing touches on plans for the Jogathon! 🏃‍♀️

We’d love to see you there and hear your ideas—everyone is welcome! 💛