Dear PVES Families,<\/p>\n
We have completed our sixth wonderful and productive week at PVES, and another beautiful fall weekend is here for us to enjoy!\u00a0 Our students continue to amaze us with their adaptability and their renewed focus on school life and learning.\u00a0 Thank you for all you are doing to keep your children organized, engaged in learning, and healthy.\u00a0 We are so proud!<\/p>\n
Thank you to the Putnam Valley Volunteer Fire Department for visiting our school for two full days this week to provide outdoor lessons on fire safety and fire prevention, complete with two fire trucks and a wonderful firefighter team.\u00a0 The Fire Department also provided our students with coloring book goodie bags and children\u2019s fire hats.\u00a0 Our remote learners were sent a video of an outdoor fire lesson, and the bags and hats are being distributed to our remote students with classroom learning materials.\u00a0 We greatly appreciate this community partnership, and our students truly enjoyed and benefited from this learning experience.<\/p>\n
We have added some VERY important information to our elementary website concerning the possibility of All-Remote learning.\u00a0 If you go onto our Putnam Valley Central School District website (www.pvcsd.org<\/a>), and then click on the \u201cElementary\u201d tab, you will see a new link (in Red, to the right of the photos) that leads you to our All-Remote Learning Schedules<\/a> for our K-4 Classrooms and our Special Classes (Art, Music, Physical Education, and Technology).\u00a0 These schedules will be put into effect if and when we must close our school and teach all of our students remotely for a period of time.\u00a0 You will see from this link that in the event of a school closure, our students will be following their daily schedules (with pre-set times for live lessons) with their classroom teachers, their special class teachers, and their professional support staff.\u00a0 (Individual and small group support lesson invites will be emailed to students by teachers of AIS, Speech, ENL, Counseling, etc.).\u00a0 All PVES students have been entered into \u201cGoogle Classrooms\u201d with their various teachers, and they will be able to access their live learning immediately through these links.\u00a0 (Only students who have been invited into Google Classrooms may enter them, so this protects privacy).\u00a0 These remote learning schedules are quite different from the classroom schedules that existed in the spring, and I thank our amazing faculty for the great amount of learning and preparation they have done in this area for the sake of our students.\u00a0 It is also important to note that if we end up having to close school for more than 48 hours, laptops will be available for those students in need.\u00a0 Please take the time to review these remote learning schedules, and please discuss them with your child.\u00a0 Hopefully, our schools will continue to stay open!<\/p>\n The busy month of November will be here soon, and our 1st<\/sup> Quarter Parent\/Teacher Conferences are quickly approaching.\u00a0 Schools will be closed for elementary students on Friday, November 13th<\/sup> for virtual parent conferences, and schools will dismiss at 12:00 noon on Thursday, November 19th<\/sup> for evening virtual conferences.\u00a0 Please make sure that you have scheduled parent\/teacher conferences with your child\u2019s classroom teacher, professional support staff teachers (AIS, Speech, ENL) and your child\u2019s Special Class Teachers (Physical Education, Art, Music, Technology).\u00a0 All teachers can be reached via email at first initial, last name @ pvcsd.org<\/em>.\u00a0 You can also call our main office phone number to leave a message for any of our staff members. The phone number is 845-528-8092.\u00a0 We look forward to this important communication.<\/p>\n Please note that on the November calendar, schools will also be closed for all students on November 3rd<\/sup> for Superintendent\u2019s Conference Day and from Wednesday, November 25th<\/sup> through Friday, November 27th<\/sup>, for the Thanksgiving holiday.\u00a0 Schools will reopen on Monday, November 30th<\/sup>. Schools will also be closed on November 11th<\/sup> in honor of Veteran\u2019s Day. Let\u2019s hope for another healthy, happy, and productive month ahead!<\/p>\n Enjoy this beautiful day, and thank you again for working so closely with us.\u00a0 As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please contact us!<\/p>\n Fondly, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear PVES Families, We have completed our sixth wonderful and productive week at PVES, and another beautiful fall weekend is here for us to enjoy!\u00a0 Our students continue to amaze us with their adaptability and their renewed focus on school life and learning.\u00a0 Thank you for all you are doing to keep your children organized,… Continue Reading Weekly Word – October 17, 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-8335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-es-letter","tag-covid19","clearfix"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8341,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions\/8341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDr. Margaret Podesta
\nPrincipal<\/p>\n