It was a pleasure to have Dr. William Bassett and members of the Wallkill East Rotary Club visit all four of our elementary schools to distribute dictionaries to our third-grade students! The effort is part of the Rotary Club’s Dictionary Project, an initiative to help improve literacy in students nationwide. It has also been …
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Last Friday marked the 25th anniversary of September 11th. The anniversary serves as a reminder to never forget that day and the significant impact it had on the world. Some may remember where they were during that day. But for our current students, it is a history lesson. Our second graders from Ms. Green’s …
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Pine Bush Elementary School is now represented at the Children’s Peace Monument in Hiroshima, Japan, with 1,000 paper cranes and wishes for peace in our world. The project started with Stacey Venzel, a fourth-grade teacher at PBE. She invited students throughout the school to participate by folding paper into cranes. Their goal: 1,000 …
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PBE! The supply lists for the 2026-2027 school year are available here! Take advantage of those sales before the school year begins. Enjoy the rest of the summer!
Again this year, the Pine Bush Central School District is sponsoring a Summer Meals To-Go program for children 18 and under. The program is funded by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture. This program provides five-day meal boxes with a variety of fresh seasonal produce, bread or English muffins, whole grain cereal and cereal …
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Let’s hear it for our PBE fifth-graders! Their families and teachers gathered Monday to celebrate all they have accomplished and wish them well in middle school. Superintendent Joe Lenz shared in the excitement in the Pine Bush High School auditorium. “Today we celebrate a very special milestone for our fifth-grade students as they prepare …
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Pine Bush Elementary students took part in the Presidential Mile recently. Third, fourth and fifth-grade students ran qualifying races to secure a spot in the finals on the high school track. The qualifiers ran four laps, getting a popsicle stick from their teacher for each lap to keep track. In addition, their teachers gave …
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Congratulations to our PBE fifth-graders who had their moving-up ceremony! If you missed it or would just like to relive it, click here to watch!
Keep the kids busy this summer, and have some fun yourself. Click here for the Continuing Education Summer Catalog!
We have… emus! Stacy Venzel’s fourth-grade class’s emus hatched overnight on June 4. The students had watched the beginning of the lengthy hatching process during the school day. Students welcomed “blonde” emus Graham Cracker and Big Bird. As they’ve grown, Big Bird turned out to be the smaller of the two! This class also …
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