SCHOOL IN SESSION!!
School will be in session on Friday, May 17. A snow day was taken earlier in the year and tomorrow is the day designated to take the place of that day. All staff and students will be in school!!
Wildcat Academy is interviewing for the 2024-2025 school year. Parents can call the office at 718-3850 to schedule an interview!!
Good luck to our Wildcat Special Olympics Team as they travel to Stillwater May 15-17 to compete in the 2024 Special Olympics Summer Games. Ponca City will have 52 athletes competing this year!!
Attention Seniors!!!
Senior Walk the Halls for local elementary sites for the Po-Hi Class of 2024 will be held on May 22.
Liberty, Union, Trout and Woodlands will walk at 8:20 a.m. with Lincoln, Roosevelt, St. Mary's School and Garfield at 9:45 a.m.
Are you interested in joining something fun and exciting? Join the Po-Hi Wildcat Marching Band Colorguard! No experience is needed, but dancers are highly welcomed. Meet at the EMS gym on May 14 and 16 from 3:45 to 5 p.m.
Due to current weather forecasts, it has been determined that all PCPS activities hosted in Ponca City after school will be cancelled for May 6. This decision was made in the best interest of students and staff.
Teachers deserve our appreciation year-round for all they do to help our students learn, grow, and succeed. But this week especially, we're celebrating and thanking our teachers for their hard work & dedication to education.
ATTENTION SENIORS!!!
We are looking for senior group activity pictures to include in the video that will be played at graduation. Email photos to albeek@pcps.us by May 15!!
No baby pictures or selfies, please.
Did you know there are super heroes in your school cafeteria?
By creating nutritious meals for students, school nutrition professionals stop hunger in its tracks!
For all you do to support students’ health & nutrition: Thank you, school lunch heroes!
#SchoolLunchHeroDay
Thank you to our school maintenance workers! You make sure our school facilities are at their best. We appreciate you and your hard work!!
#ThankYouThursday
Best of luck to Wildcat tennis players Kylie Flowers and Allison Edward at the State Tournament this weekend!!!
Today is National Principal Appreciation Day! Thank you, school principals, for all the ways you support your school communities every day!! #PrincipalAppreciation
Thank you to our amazing principals and assistant principals:
Shane Dent
Sharee Madsen
Ryan Shelton
Sean Taglialatela
Dylan Jackson
Keith Crocker
Stacey Sattre
Valerie Huffer
Kevin LaRue
Laura Glowacki
Jody Fincher
Liz Hargraves
Shelly Sullivan
Jera Kiespert
Ann Neilson
Kara Anderson
Tim Williams
Tina Fisher
Karla Streeter
The district in-district transfer window according to board policy opens each SY on January 1st and closes May 1st. Parents have until the end of the day to put in a request for an in-district transfer for the upcoming 2024-25 SY. Parents will complete the form in their PowerSchool Account under forms. All students who are currently attending a site on an overflow transfer must put in a transfer request to continue at the site they are currently attending.
Pre-K pre-registration will end on Friday, May 3. Parents can pre-register for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year at the Registration Center located at 111 West Grand from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
School janitors face all kinds of situations each day, but through it all they make sure school facilities are clean and tidy so students can learn. For all you do to support learning in our schools .... thank you, school janitors!
#ThankYouThursday
Congrats to the 42 Ponca City Orchestra students who made the North Oklahoma Regional All District Honor Orchestra!! They are headed to Bartlesville today to perform with other students from Enid, Bartlesville and Stillwater and will perform tonight at 7 p.m. at The Center in Bartlesville. Admission is free and open to the public!
The last day to fill out an application for an In-District Transfer for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year is May 1.
The application is electronic. Parents will fill it out using their Parent Portal. The application is found under Forms at www.pcps.us.
For assistance, please contact your child's school office or the Registration Center at 111 West Grand.
Happy #SchoolBusDriversDay to all the skilled and caring school bus drivers who safely shuttle students to and from school, field trips and afterschool activities.
When you pick up and drop off at the bus stop today, remember to thank your bus driver!!
Strike up the band - we're celebrating band directors!
Thank you for guiding students as they make beautiful music together - from pep bands & marching bands, to concert bands, jazz bands, chamber ensembles, and many other groups.
#ThankYouThursday
Secondary Test Reminders:
April 18:
WMS 6th and 7th ELA State Test
EMS Science
April 23:
WMS 6th and 7th Math State Test
EMS Writing
April 24:
EMS Reading
April 30:
EMS Math
