Purcell Elementary School

This Thursday!

Summer School starts tomorrow! We can't wait to see you! Enrolled students can be dropped off between 8:45-9:00 at the elementary.

🎉 FREE! Summer Meals 🍽️ For ALL kids age 18 or younger 📍 Purcell Elementary School Cafe 🕢 7:30 AM – 10:30 AM (Breakfast) 🕥 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (Lunch) 📅 Monday – Friday Starting June 2nd Young students must be accompanied by an adult. All other areas of the school will be closed including the playground as Summer School will be in session. No need to sign up or apply — just show up and enjoy! 😄

Free Haircut Day! 💇‍♀️💇‍♂️ Hey Purcell Dragons! 👋 Looking for a fresh look for back to school? Free Haircut Day at Trinity UMC Fellowship Hall on July 24th! This amazing community event also includes free toiletries and hot dogs! 🌭 What a wonderful resource for our community! #PurcellCommunity #FreeHaircuts #TrinityUMC #CommunityLove #GoDragons

Support our Little Dragon Maddison! She loves animals! 🫶🏽❤️🐲🐈🐶🐰🐿️🦊🦡🐻‍❄️🐨🐷🦬🦋#PESproud #GOmaddison https://jr-ranger.org/2025/maddison-5f63

Thunder Reading Challenge, presented by American Fidelity Assurance Company, encourages kids in kindergarten through fifth grade to read 20 minutes each day, or 600 minutes total, for a chance to win a Thunder prize pack and be eligible for a custom Thunder jersey. The next thunder challenge starts June 1 https://www.nba.com/thunder/readingchallenge

1st up Pioneer Library System: Summer Reading Programs at the Pioneer Library System. Track your reading and earn incentives! See websites for details online or visit a library location. https://pioneerlibrarysystem.org/summer-learning-challenge Get your reading going!

Summer break is here and summer reading matters! We will be sharing different reading challenges that students and adults can join to keep reading going and our brains growing!

🎉 FREE! Summer Meals 🍽️ For ALL kids age 18 or younger 📍 Purcell Elementary School Cafe 🕢 7:30 AM – 10:30 AM (Breakfast) 🕥 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (Lunch) 📅 Monday – Friday Starting June 2nd Young students must be accompanied by an adult. All other areas of the school will be closed including the playground as Summer School will be in session. No need to sign up or apply — just show up and enjoy! 😄

We are incredibly grateful to the Purcell Schools Foundation for their generous financial support, which is making it possible for our Reading Teachers to attend the first-ever UFLI Academy in Gainesville, FL from May 18–21! 🎉🎉 Thanks to the Foundation, all registration fees, hotel accommodations, and daily meal stipends are fully covered — what an amazing investment in our educators and their continued professional growth! 🐲❤️📚🙌🏼 We’d also like to give a big shoutout to our amazing PTO, who is covering the cost of flights. ✈️ It truly takes a village, and we are so thankful for this partnership that empowers our teachers and enriches our students’ learning. 💙📚📓📖 #ThankYou #PurcellSchoolsFoundation❤️🐲 #PTO #UFLIAcademy #ProfessionalDevelopment

🎉 Happy Last Day of School Purcell Elementary! 🎉 What an incredible year it has been! To all of our amazing students — we are so proud of you and hope your summer is full of adventure, laughter, and fun. 🌞📚🌈 To our wonderful parents — thank you from the bottom of our hearts for trusting us with your precious children. We truly love each and every one of them! 💖 🎓 A Special Moment Today: Our graduating Seniors will be walking through our building at 10:30 AM — please help us by holding back Kindergarten families until the Senior Walk-Through is finished so we can give them the celebration they deserve. 🍽️ Parent Picnic Schedule: • Kindergarten: 10:45–11:20 • 2nd Grade: 11:30–12:15 • 1st Grade: 12:15–1:00 📌 Don’t forget to stop by the office before or after your picnic time to take care of any lunch charges. 📄 Report cards will be coming home today! ☀️ For those attending Summer School, we’ll see you June 2nd at 8:30 AM! Have the best summer — play outside, read something just for fun, and make unforgettable memories. We can’t wait to hear all about them next year! 💛🌼📖❤️🐲🎉 I#LastDayOfSchool 🐲❤️#WeLoveOurStudents #ThankYouParents #HelloSummer

🏆Our elementary students have had an amazing year in PE. 🎖️They got to enjoy bouncing and avoiding the “lava” 🌋to celebrate all of their hard work and many, many accomplishments this year! Way to go Dragons!! 🐉 🐲👏👏🥳🥳👏👏🎉

A HUGE shoutout to our amazing PTO and the incredible volunteers who gave their time (and braved the hot, hot sun!) to make Super Kids Day a blast for our elementary students yesterday! ☀️🎉 A special thank you to Kristin Davis, Carinne Smith, Laney Wren, Leigh Gwin, Kristin Davis, Sarah Blankenship, Megan White, Pam Irwin, Amber Cook, Jaycie Jones, Justin Jones , Rebecca Bates, Brooklynn Wilson, Carlee Jacks, Josh Jacks, Ali Gibson, Katelyn Pope, Donna Watson, Nic Gwin, Leslie Don, Taylor Marriott, Kayla Huff, Robin Leverett, & Andrea Goddard. Your dedication to creating fun, memorable experiences for our students is truly top-notch! From start to finish, the day was filled with smiles, laughter, and joy—and it’s all thanks to you! ❤️🐲🙌🏼 We appreciate each of you more than words can say. 💚 #DragonPride #SuperKidsDay #GratefulHearts #ThankYouVolunteers

A huge THANK YOU to Kerry Wilhoit & Jace Woodrow from McClain Bank for the special Sonic drink delivery today! 🥤💙Your sweet surprise was the perfect touch to our Chick-fil-A staff lunch, and our team truly appreciated it!🐲❤️ Your continued support of our teachers and staff means so much. We’re lucky to have community partners like you who go above and beyond to show you care. 💚 Thank you for always being there and for all you do to pour into our school! #DragonPride #DragonCARES #ThankYou

This young lady was sick the day we went to Mazzios as a donation winner and was such a trooper! She's feeling much better and had Mc Donald's with the Principal and got a bonus with her Teacher going too! Thank you Kenley Creswell for a special lunch! 🐲❤️🍟

Second graders got a chance to learn about water safety and got to have some fun in the water. 💦 Please be careful this summer when water activities are at their peek. 🏊Children should never get in the pool/water without an attentive adult present. 🛟 Be sure lifejackets/flotation devices are the accurate size and are worn correctly.🌊

Thanks to TSET and Healthy Schools Oklahoma, some of our kindergarten classes got to try out our new Take-home PE bags on our last virtual day. We appreciate having the opportunity to do this!!

PES 2024-2025 4th Qtr. Perfect Attendance: Attendance is very important, and we would like to recognize students who have had Perfect Attendance since the start of the school year. Thank you, Dragon Parents, for making being present at school daily an important part of your routine! We couldn’t have done it without you! Way to go, Dragons! 🐲❤️ PreK Student: Mila Cantu. Kinder Students: Axel Alvarado, Arabella Franco & Owen Sharp. 1st Grade Students: Kian Baxter. 2nd Grade Students: Yoel Chavez, Lilliana Roberts, Carter Rolin, & Kaiden Ruiz.🐲❤️🎉

Don't forget that tomorrow is a FREE hat day! Students can wear hats to shade their face from the sun while they're having a blast at Super Kids Day!

Congratulations to our May Students of the Month! These students show Dragon CARES daily and we are super proud of them! #DragonCARES Way to go Dragons! PreK: Paisley Porter & Damian Deleon K: Harlee Boswell & Axel Ramirez Sanjuan 1st: Kobi Woody & Bo Blakley 2nd: Zaydee Ramirez & Archer Whisenant Thank you, Boomerang, for supporting our students! Each student received a Student of the Month certificate and a free kid's meal from Boomerang!