Please provide your input on future projects! Complete online at bit.ly/facilitysurvey2025 or print the paper version at https://bit.ly/facilitysurvey2025paper
Check out the December newsletter for PCHS!
https://secure.smore.com/n/bhfcs
Check out this event, High School Innovation Workshop, for high school students that is being offered at the Elmer Butcha Tech Center on November 20th! Great event to learn more and make yourself more valuable and marketable now and in the future. Need to RSVP by 11/15/24. More information in the flyer.
PCSC is excited to welcome Alicia “Kozak” Kozakiewicz to speak with our community's adults and parents on the importance of internet safety. If you have a child in your life, you don’t want to miss Alicia's presentation on November 21st, 2024 at 6:00pm in the Pike Central High School Auditorium.
*Due to the nature of this presentation, no children or students should attend this event. Instead, students in grades 5-12 will attend age-appropriate presentations on November 21st and 22nd. Parents of students within grades 5-12 will receive additional information via email and sent home with your child, including the opportunity to opt your child out of attending.
REMINDER: Monday, September 23, 2024 is a Flex Day. Students will not attend school and no work will be required for them to complete from home.
Below is a link to the released recommendations for the State Board of Indiana Department of Health, Immunization Division for the 24/25 school year. The immunizations will affect the incoming Kindergarten, sixth, and twelfth grade students. Vaccination appointments can be made with the Pike County Health Department or with your healthcare provider. Call (812)354-8797 to make an appointment. Medical exemptions can be completed by your healthcare provider, and religious exemption paperwork will be available at each school. Please contact the Pike County Health Department or a school nurse with any questions. Thank you and we can’t wait to see our students next week!
https://www.in.gov/health/files/2024-25-School-Immunization-Requirements.pdf
This updated 2024-2025 academic calendar includes our Flex Days , which were recently approved by the State Board of Education.
These are scheduled for Sept. 23, Jan. 20, and April 21. Students will not attend school on flex days, as our staff meet for training and complete work designed for continuous improvement of our schools.
We're excited for the start of the 2024-2025 school year!
The dates and times for in-person registration and the instructions for registering new and returning students are available at:
https://www.pcsc.k12.in.us/page/student-registration
Online registration for the 2024-25 school year will open within the Harmony parent portal on July 25, 2024 at 8:00 am.
Below is a link to the released recommendations for the State Board of Indiana Department of Health, Immunization Division for the 24/25 school year. The immunizations will affect the incoming Kindergarten, sixth, and twelfth grade students. Vaccination appointments can be made with the Pike County Health Department or with your healthcare provider. Call (812)354-8797 to make an appointment. Medical exemptions can be completed by your healthcare provider, and religious exemption paperwork will be available at each school. Thank you and have a GREAT and SAFE summer!
https://www.in.gov/health/files/2024-25-School-Immunization-Requirements.pdf
Great news...the Summer Feeding Program is back for 2024!
If you have any questions, please call the PCSC Food Director at 812-354-8478 Ext .317
Check out the Senior Spotlight, Pillar Rudolph! #WeAreChargers
Multiple classes at PCHS helped with getting items ready for the annual meeting of the Pike County Development and and Pike County Chamber of Commerce that was held Thursday evening at Petersburg Elementary School. The Culinary Arts class catered desserts for the meal and students from the Engineering classes and Construction Trades made the plaques for the Citizen of the Year and Business of the Year. Learning skills and helping the Pike County community! #WeAreChargers
Tickets are available now! Get them before they are all gone.
An early release day is scheduled for all PCSC students, on Wednesday, March 6, 2024.
**PLEASE review any information that is shared by your child's school, as it may provide additional, important details that are specific to that building.
***Dismissal: Pike Central at 12:30 pm, Elementary at 12:45-12:50 pm
Attention, all seniors planning to attend college(not just 4-year colleges )! Have you completed the application with the Pike County Community Foundation yet? There are 31 scholarships available (one application) totaling $115,000. Most are for only Pike County students with several of them being renewable for multiple years! The deadline is January 19th! Don't miss this opportunity!
https://www.pikecountycf.org/community-scholarship-program
ALL PCSC PARENTS & GUARDIANS, please save-the-date and plan to attend this event! Those in attendance will receive FREE books for your children and be entered into drawings for FREE bluetooth speakers, family game night bundles, and other items that support parent engagement.
The goal of this parent education night is to share information about these critical health and safety issues, as well as information about how you can support your child’s academic achievement by supporting his or her overall safety, well-being, and the development of positive behaviors. Information about our Title I programs will also be shared.
We would love to see a great turnout on Wednesday, November 15th, in the PCHS Auditorium, at 6:30 pm ET.
We're excited to bring mobile dentists back to our schools for the 23-24 school year. Please reach out to your school nurse for more information!
To our PARENTS, EMPLOYERS, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS:
Pike County was selected as 1 of only 6 sites in the state to host a Community Conversation, which will focus on the most current data about Tobacco/Nicotine use by Indiana Youth. A roundtable discussion will follow a brief presentation of data. Vaping and Tobacco use impacts all of us, so we encourage you to learn more about this issue and contribute to our efforts at prevention and cessation.
REGISTER TODAY by scanning the QR Code in the flyer, or by visiting surveymonkey.com/r/YTSPetersburg
Thank you to our newly certified QPR Trainers!
PCSC hosted a day of QPR Suicide Prevention training to equip some of our own with a Trainer's Certification. Providing these staff members with extra knowledge and training, in addition to the training provided to all staff, is a WIN for everyone.
Congratulations to Pike Central High School's Varsity Volleyball team and coaches for earning the inaugural IHSVCA Team Academic Award!
To be eligible, teams had to maintain an accumulated GPA of 3.5 or higher for the full school year. Of the nearly 400 high schools in Indiana, only 51 earned this prestigious team award. GO CHARGERS!
