Putnam City Schools - Go Boldly

#PCCommunity: 🌱Green Thumbs In The Making🌳 OKC Beautiful Foundation visited the budding little 'saplings' of Overholser Elementary today! It was all hands on deck—or should we say in the dirt—as everyone played a part in planting beautiful, fresh trees. Every tree planted is a lesson in patience, growth, and the plant life cycle #EcoEducation

#PCStudentSuccess: 🍂Orange You Glad It's Pumpkin Season🍂 Coronado Heights second grade had a blast studying textures and natural processes of decay, regrowth, and renewal by reading the story of Pumpkin Jack. Throughout the year, they will see how the plant life cycle works in real time!

#BePresentBeBold: 🦜We Are Birds Of A Feather That Flock Together Here🦜 Putnam City is proud of the support between schools, especially our older students mentoring our younger students. Check out the mentor programs your school has to offer or the PC Foundation's CAST Mentorship program to get involved! Link is provided below. Together, we build stronger connections and brighter futures!🌟 🔗https://www.putnamcityfoundation.org/programs

#PCStudentSuccess: 🍎🍏Planting Seeds Of Apples And Kindness🍎🍏 The second graders at Northridge Elementary celebrated Johnny Appleseed Day this week by making apple pies together! Through the story of Johnny Appleseed, they learned valuable lessons about kindness, generosity, and the importance of nature. They also explored how apple trees change with the seasons and discovered how one small apple seed—or a simple act of kindness—can make a big difference in the world around them.

#PCStudentSuccess: 🎸Learning Like A Rockstar🎸 The Coronado Cougars had an "amped up" Friday celebrating Rock Your School Day! Their special guests, the Putnam City High Step Team, kicked off the day with some amazing moves, setting the tone for rockstar-themed educational lessons that spread throughout the entire school.

#PCStudentSuccess: 🧊Solids, Liquids, And Gases, Oh My!💨 Apollo Elementary Eagles had a fun and educational experience today, watching dry ice mix with boiling water to create a visual demonstration of the phase changes of water!

#PCProud: 📣Let’s Go, Let’s Go L-E-T-S-G-O📣 Putnam City North and Putnam City High cheerleaders are making sure a living legacy of spirit surges throughout their schools as they teach the littles how it’s done!

#PCCareers 👀Looking For A Flexible Yet Fulfilling Role in Education?👀 We are looking for passionate substitute teachers to help support our teachers and grow our students. Subbing can be the perfect way to give back to your community or to gain a head start on a career in education! 🎓️ #JoinOurDistrict #SubstituteSupport #EveryBeat Counts 🔗 Visit our link to apply today 🔗 https://www.putnamcityschools.org/page/substitute-teaching

🌱 PCN Home Of Rare Milkweed Plant Species 🦋 A rare plant species, the Zizotes Milkweed, is growing at Putnam City North! The Outdoor Classroom at PCN is a vibrant place for all types of plants, insects, and now the rare milkweed. A Conservation Biologist from the OKC Zoo came out and surveyed the plants this week and found about 20 more milkweed plants growing. There are 29 recordings of this rare milkweed in Oklahoma, 5 in Oklahoma County, and 2 of those are at PCN! We can't wait for all the monarch butterflies to find the milkweed plants next!

🤑 FUNdraising at Northridge ends with slime 🤑 Slime was the grand finale of the Fun Run at Northridge Elementary today. These fundraising efforts took buckets of dedication; dedication of the students and families for raising all the money, and dedication of our amazing teachers and principal for willing to get slimed!

#PCFineArts: 🎭️A Few Of Our Favorite Things: Fine Arts And The Sound Of Music!🎭️ Our students at Rollingwood Elementary explored the hills of creativity and imagination this morning as Lyric theater performed The Sound of Music! 🌄🎶 Through the lense of these little eyes, it was a magical introduction to the world of fine arts. This classic helped them learn the beauty of music, theater, and storytelling. It's the perfect way to spark a lifelong love of the arts.

#PCBondProjects: 🔄Centenial Center Loading... 🔄 🏗️We’re excited to share that the Centennial Center is quickly coming to life! This project broke ground in June and marks the final piece of the 2014 Bond, which has already delivered incredible upgrades for our district: new band uniforms, athletic equipment, textbooks, technology, fine arts gear, the new Capps Middle School, and two additional stadiums at PC West and PC North. 🎭 Additionally, we addressed the loss of the Capps Middle School auditorium by adding a new Performing Arts Hall, thanks to the 2017 Momentum Bond. This new facility will be a mid-size venue perfect for elementary and middle school events, and a flexible space for professional development. This will also help avoid any scheduling issues for multiple student organizations when spaces like the high school auditoriums are unavailable. 👀 Stay tuned for updates on the upcoming 2025 Innovation Bond! You won’t want to miss out on being part of our District’s exciting growth and enhancing the educational experience for our students!

#PCBondProjects: 🎨 New Art Room Sets A Blank Canvas For A New School Year🎨 Thanks to a previous bond, our budding artists now have a space to let their creativity shine! ✨ The new art room at Windsor Hills is a game changer for their imagination and learning! This is proof that when a community invests in education, creativity flourishes for our students across the District!

#PCAthletics: 🏈Two Schools, One Football, And A Whole Lot of Pride🏈 Last night was the first sister school game of the 2024 football season between the Putnam City High Pirates and the Putnam City West Patriots. This rivalry always brings out the best in both teams, turning what starts as just a game into the driving force behind their school spirit. It was a battle of skill, heart, and tradition on the gridiron that resulted in the Pirates bringing home the bragging rights...until next year

#PCProud: 📣Building School Spirit From The Bottom To The Top📣 In the spirit of tonight's sister schools game, the Putnam City West football, cheer, and pom teams brought energy to the morning assemblies. They sang, danced, and celebrated awards with the WOES Warriors, Lake Park Lions, and Hilldale Tigers. Once not long ago, these big kids were little ones, dreaming of doing what they do now. Today, that same dream is being passed down as the younger kids watch them, imagining being under the Friday Night Lights one day. 🏈Putnam City West v. Putnam City High 🎉Come show support for your school tonight, 7 pm, at Putnam City West High School!

🤗 Goodies with Grandparents 🧡 It takes a village, and of course, that includes the Grandparents! The Grands were spotted at DD Kirkland and Ralph Downs this week eating sweet treats, drinking coffee, and playing with the littles to start their day off right. These sweet relationships truly demonstrate how it takes everyone to make every beat count for a child to learn and grow.

🗽 Hefner Middle School Student To Be Featured In Times Square! 🎬 We recently learned how an amazing Hefner Middle School 8th grader, Treymane Rollins, will soon be featured on the big screens of Times Square in New York City! Rollins was selected from nearly 3000 entries in the National Down Syndrome Society's worldwide call for photos! The video will play in Times Square and be streamed worldwide to kick off the New York City Buddy Walk this Saturday. Based on these photos, we can see why he was selected! Looking good, Tremayne! 😎

📖 Representative Ellyn Hefner Reads to Hilldale 3rd Graders 🏛️ The Hilldale Tigers got a lesson on where their clothing comes from as State Representative Ellyn Hefner read a book to a third grade class this morning. They had a lot of great questions for Rep. Hefner, some on-topic, some off-topic, but all questions are good questions! 🤗

#OnTheRoadWithRhodes 📍Visiting Our Schools One Stop at a Time with Dr. Rhodes at the Wheel 🚙 Superintendent Dr. Rhodes ventures every week to visit our schools, see the action, talk to students and teachers, and participate in fun activities that he finds along the way. Today, we road along on his trip to visit the Lake Park Lions, Western Oaks Elementary and Middle School Warriors, Central Cubs, and the PC Aviation Academy. Kids will truly say the best things, including one today asking Dr. Rhodes, "Are you the President?" 🤓

#BePresentBeBold: ⬇️ Avoiding Compulsory Attendance Violations ⬇️ Students Absent without a valid excuse lead to Compulsory Attendance Violations. Here's how: ➡️Absent for 4+ days or 8 parts of days days within a 4-week period ➡️Per Semester: 10+ consecutive absences or 20 parts of days 🔴 How can this be avoided? It's simple. Just make sure all absences are communicated to your student's school so they can be coded correctly. Above all- just "Be Present. Be Bold!"