Plainfield School District

Reminder: Thursday, November 17th is picture retake day. If your child(ren) was absent on picture day, this is an opportunity to ensure that you have school pictures taken! If you were not happy with the original school pictures, please have your child bring their packet of pictures with them on retake day and they will have the opportunity to have their picture taken again.

8th Grade Reminder: 8th Grade will visit the Hartford Area Career and Technology Center on Wednesday, November 16th. Permission slips were sent home last Thursday and need to be returned tomorrow, November 15th. The bus departs PES at 8:15 and will be back no later than 11:45. Please call the PES school office with any questions.

Congratulations to the PES Boys 7/8 soccer team who won the Sportsmanship Award at the Cardigan Mountain School Soccer Jamboree on Saturday.

Reminder - 8th Grade Families: Don't forget that LHS will be at PES for a parent orientation night on Wednesday, November 9th from 6:00-7:00 p.m. Hope to see you there!

Attention 8th grade parents: Next week, during their health class, 8th graders will be trained by CPR instructors to become CPR/First Aid/AED certified. If you have any questions, please contact Heather Heinz, hheinz@plainfieldschool.org.

Reminder: Trunk or Treat at Plainfield Elementary School, Sunday October 30th from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Please join us for fall games, crafts, and "Trunk or Treating!" Costumes encouraged!

Reminder: We have early release days on Thursday, Oct. 27 and Friday, Oct 28 for our Caregiver-Teacher Conferences. Students will be dismissed at 12:50 pm (exactly 2 hours early.) All families have been assigned a time to meet with their child(ren)’s teacher(s.) We tried to schedule families with multiple children in close proximity to avoid multiple trips to the school. Your child(ren)’s homeroom teacher(s) should have notified you of your scheduled time(s). If you have not yet received confirmation of your time, please reach out directly to your child’s teacher. If your time does not work, please work with your child’s teacher to reschedule as needed.

Basketball: Preseason Skills and Drills at The Plainfield School. The Lebanon Staff is running a Skills and Drills Clinic for grade 5-6 and 7-8 boys and girls. These clinics are on the following Sundays: 10/23; 10/30 and 11/06 from 9:00 am - 10:30 am for grades 5-6 boys and girls; 10:30-12:00 for grade 7-8 boys and girls. We look forward to seeing you.

Last Wednesday, the School Board voted to once again hold the FAST program at Whaleback with a number of tweaks to allow for more make-up day possibilities and increased supervision on the mountain. This will definitely require a healthy core of parent volunteers. We are hiring a FAST volunteer coordinator who will work closely with the office to make sure all groups of skiers are matched with supervision on the mountain. If you are interested to help with this, please contact office@plainfieldschool.org. This is a paid position. Audra

The Plainfield School Wellness Committee will hold a meeting on October 17 from 3:10-4:30 p.m.. This meeting will take place in the Plainfield Elementary School Library.

The Plainfield School Board budget committee will hold a meeting on Friday, October 14 at 1:00p.m.. This meeting will take place in the Plainfield Elementary School SAU office.

Reminders: Tomorrow, Thursday, October 6, is an early release day for students. Dismissal is at 12:50. It is also picture day! Friday, October 7 is a teacher work day, so there is no school for students. There is no school Monday, October 10th in observance of the federal holiday.

The 7th and 8th grade Hulbert trip was a success! Take a sneak peak at these photos. The group should arrive back at PES shortly!

PTA Potluck Event Update The PTA is postponing the potluck event that was originally scheduled for this Friday, September 30th. They hope to coordinate with the Arts in Residence event when that is rescheduled. Stay tuned!

Picture Day Is Almost Here! Thursday, October 6, 2022 Forms to order pictures will be sent home during the last week of September. You can pre-order online, use PES unique H2DJPM56

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Youth Beatz artist in residence is postponed until a later date. Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks. For now, we will hold onto these awesome stage decorations being created by our 5th and 6th grade students during art class.

Caregivers welcome to join us for All School Sing every Tuesday at 8:05 am.

Mabel the hedgehog visits PES. Making Heggie cookies. Jan Brett author study in grades 3 and 4.

Many thanks to PES alumni Sebastian Keen for the hundreds of high quality books donated to the LLC. They will be well used!

8th Grade Parents and Student Meeting Wednesday, Sept. 21st at 6:15 pm in the PES Gym. Please join this very important class meeting to hear about fundraising, class events and all the fun that will be leading up to the end of the year class trip. Both parents and students are encouraged to attend. We look forward to seeing everyone! -Your Class Advisors