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Superintendent Brian Dunn presents his next round of Virtually Speaking, March 27 – April 17

Let’s get Virtually Speaking! Superintendent Brian Dunn starts his next round of online presentations with parents and guardians on Monday, March 27, kicking off with Circleville Elementary School families. Families signed up with School Messenger will receive the link to the presentation the day before their scheduled date (see below). Please look for it in …

Music and technology go hand-in-hand

March is Music in Our Schools Month! Students in Danielle Hommel’s fourth grade general music class at Circleville Elementary School are learning how to code with a STEAM coding and composing project Coding mice were obtained through a grant from Orange and Rockland Utilities STEM Grant. Projects like this combine the world of computer programming …

Engineers in training!

CES had an incredible session for its Engineering Club! Students in the club brought in all types of recycled materials – plastic bottles, soda cans, old CDs, fruit baskets, cardboard boxes – to make race cars!     Susan Corcoran, the club advisor, encouraged the students to think differently and try new things. The students …

Role models on the gridiron and in the classroom – PB football players celebrate reading

What better way to encourage reading in our younger students than to have some of the people they admire read to them! That happened on Thursday here in Pine Bush, which was Read Across America Day, a day schools across the nation celebrate reading and the adventures it brings to students.         …

Newly-minted authors share their research with younger students

Let’s welcome our newest authors! Students in Lisa Quick and Jaclyn Nespoli’s fourth-grade class at Circleville Elementary School wrote and published informational books recently. They had an amazing afternoon celebrating their books, circling the classroom reading each other’s books and leaving star comments.     Then they headed to Denise Hansen’s kindergarten class to read …

Singing of peace, smiling about snowflakes – kindergartners serenade at concert

Kindergarten students at Circleville Elementary School carried on a January tradition recently with their concert, Songs of Peace and Winter.   The students were well-prepared with their families in attendance as they sang songs of unity and peace as well as some fun songs about winter.   The students filed into the cafeteria carrying the …

CES third-grade students take on the tower challenge – and win!

Here’s the challenge: take 20 index cards and 18 inches of tape and create a tower as tall as you can that will be sturdy enough to hold a stuffed animal. Seth VanGaasbeek’s third grade students at Circleville Elementary School took that challenge and created some pretty interesting towers that were able to hold that …

Applications for 2023-2024 pre-K program are now available; deadline to apply is March 27, 2023

Registration for the district’s universal pre-Kindergarten program is open.  The deadline to submit an application to be considered in the lottery is March 27, 2023.  The district has 10 pre-K classes – three at PBE and PAK and two at CES and EJR.  It is a full-day program that follows the same schedule as elementary …

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Pine Bush Central School District
State Route 302, Pine Bush, NY 12566
Phone: (845) 744-2031
Fax: (845) 744-6189
Brian Dunn
Superintendent of Schools
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