Pekin Community High School District #303 - The Fire is Within

Mrs. Ewing and the Principals Office staff brought out the woot woot cart today!!! She made sure the staff had plenty of school spirit for today's winter assembly!

Just like gears in a machine, we work together, each piece contributing to the bigger picture one skill and career at a time. Hope this post sparks a smile 😃 Happy Valentine’s Day from your PCHS CTE Department! #ilcte #efe320 #ctemonth

Say cheese to our fresh new backdrops for CTE and Dragon Media 📸 Ready to snap, share, and shine in style! #ctemonth #ilcte #efe320 #dragonmedia

Attention Seniors! Check out today's Scholarship Spotlight! All scholarships can be found on the PCHS Scholarship Database at: bit.ly/PCHS-Scholarships-24-25 Local Scholarships are due March 18th.

Today at lunch, we made our best heart designs for class points for Valentine’s Spirit Week!

Best Buddies had a great Valentines party!

Tomorrow wraps up Spirit Week! Wear your class colors for the Winter Games Assembly!

You can still sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences! Don't forget to attend our special session on Standards Based Grading. Come to a "Pre-Session" at 4:30 in the Dragon Commons (enter at the top of the hill) before conferences start at 5. Learn about WHAT SBG is, WHY we are using a Skills-Based Grading system, and HOW we use SBG at PCHS. Sign up for conferences here: https://www.signupgenius.com/org/spring2025#/

Spring is coming! Order your flowers from the PCHS Band Students today! Orders due March 10th and flowers delivered the weekend of May 3rd. Profits support the students of the bands and orchestras at PCHS. Give your order to a band students or email kforbes@pekinhigh.net. https://5il.co/37q7l

Thanks to our digital media and graph comm students and staff for our updated recruitment display. We are hitting the road searching for new Dragons to join our fantastic team!!!

What's the Story Pekin? Listen in as PCHS' own Shayla Ewing and Ashley Neal talk about a clever program that encourages our kids to have more regular attendance. https://open.spotify.com/episode/65QrzdLZhkDRYGMJHdIbCr

𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡: Logan earned the January employee of the month spot for his attention to detail, his welcoming personality, and his strong customer service skills. We are thankful to have him as part of the team! Way to go Logan! 👏👏

🆂🆃🆄🅳🅴🅽🆃 🆂🅿🅾🆃🅻🅸🅶🅷🆃: Maddie used her class time wisely to tour a cosmetology school. She is making the best use of her time before graduation to prepare herself while gaining work experience in the community at JC Pennys. Thank you 𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝒾𝓉 𝒮𝒶𝓁ℴ𝓃 𝒜𝒸𝒶𝒹ℯ𝓂𝓎 for the educational tour

The PCHS Counseling Office will be hosting our second FAFSA completion night on February 19th at 6pm in the Dragon Commons. All seniors, regardless of attending a 4-yr, 2-yr, or vocational school will need to complete the FAFSA. Both you and your student will need to create an FSA ID prior to the event. Please do so by going to fsaid.ed.gov. These workshops will be a great opportunity to work on your student's FAFSA while having experts around to answer any questions that may come up. We hope to see you there!

Today we wore hearts while e-learning. Tomorrow is character day - dress like your favorite book, movie or tv show character! #winterspiritweek

Save the date..this is a great resource for local resources for individuals with disabilities!

PCHS uses many different channels to get important messages across. Don't forget to download the PCHS app in the android or apple store. You can find it under Pekin Community High School 303. Once downloaded, go to settings, notifications, preferences, groups and select district for instant notifications to your phone! It's everything Pekin in your pocket.

Congratulations to our S'Pekin Dragons who have qualified for this weekends IHSA Washington Sectional!

Join the Pekin Boys Tennis team! Meeting is moved to Thursday (2/13) due to weather! It will start at 3:15 in B217. Current team member, Jacob states, "I joined and stay on tennis because it was fun and the coaches are fun. During practice we never did the same thing every day and you get personalized help!" Email Coach Murray (zmurray@pekinhigh.net) or Coach Garvey (kgarvey@pekinhigh.net) with questions.

Attention Seniors! Check out today's Scholarship Spotlight! All scholarships can be found on the PCHS Scholarship Database at: bit.ly/PCHS-Scholarships-24-25 Local Scholarships are due March 18th.