Don Hall was elected Board Chair during Tuesday night's Board of Education meeting. Beth Burns was voted in as Vice-Chair. https://www.pender.k12.nc.us/page/meet-your-board-of-education #ExperienceTheExcellence

Over the weekend out Girls on the Run team competed in their celebratory 5K to end their fall season. Audrina L. won her age group! Other top 15 age group finishers were Mae C., Sophie A., Myra J., Brielin B., Lexi G., Yvonne G. and Mattie A. A BIG thank you to Coach Devon for all her hard work with this large group of awesome girls. 🏃🏼💗



This morning, Kindergarten enjoyed a special visit and sweet treat from our Assistant Superintendent, Kevin Taylor. Thanks for sharing the candy cane experiment! 🍬




We're happy to have Ms. Milliner back at SCE but in a new role, 2nd grade teacher. The kids in her class are lucky to have such a dedicated person like her for the remainder of the year.
Meet the Sea Turtles Series: Up next we have Ms. Fields, she is one of our new 4th Grade teachers! 💚🐢💙

We have a Holiday Spirit Day coming up this Friday!

Shout out to these homerooms for having 95% (or above) attendance for the week of Dec 4-8. ✨ Keep up the great work. ✨

Spirit Day #2! Students and staff dressed in their best winter vacation clothing! ☀️❄️




Wrapping up a great week of Hour of Code with some certificates of completion. Way to go 5th grade!

We're happy to share with you that AJ from Dr. Martin's 3rd grade class is our Sea Turtle of the Week for the week of December 4-8. AJ, your school is proud of you.

Check out these awesome first graders reading music, staying on beat and playing the hand bells in music class. We're thankful for our great music teacher, Ms. Polster https://youtu.be/6YMnarJaWaY 🔔🎵

The Fancy Flamingo in Hampstead by Lowe’s Foods is offering 10% back to area PTA/PTO Dec 10-16 when you mention your schools name at check out.

We had a lovely Christmas tree managing SCE’s traffic this morning. 🎄
Mrs. McDonald’s Kindergarten class used items at their seat to determine what was lighter and heavier. Their chair was heavier than their Expo marker.
Mrs. Taylor's first grade class took a deep exploration into abstract art and into the characters actions of the book Seven Blind Mice today. They had to take features of the elephant to build together, based on what the mice thought in the book. Great teamwork first grade! ✨



Mrs. Allen's 2nd grade class is participating in Hour of Code this week. The Hour of Code is a free introduction to computer science through fun activities. This class chose to spend their hour learning and playing the activity called Code Monkey.
Thanks to some awesome elves, our lost items are organized and ready to be found. Over 250+ clothing items! After Dec. 20th the items will be donated.










Yesterday, staff participated in AAC training, which helps us understand and incorporate students' full communication abilities.
And now, our Science Fair Winners! 1st Place 🥇 McKenna & Annabelle. 2nd Place 🥈 Ivy, Ella & Olivia. 3rd Place 🥉 Mila & Anna. Great work scientists!



Mrs. Faircloth's 5th grade class has earned the top spot this week and won the Golden Trash Can. Mr. Jeff is proud of these students and the effort they put in each day to keep their room neat and organized.

