School Library Book Bags for K-3rd grade will continue through May 10th. 

4th-5th graders must place books on hold in the library catalog if they wish to continue receiving books. 
Click here for "how to" guides on placing holds and logging in to the catalog. There is a special message for 4th and 5th graders in Ms. Gapp's Library Seesaw class with more details. Only place hods on items showing, "IN."

Students participating in Hybrid may pick up their library book bags on the Tuesday of their normally scheduled week and return bags on the second Friday from the week they receive them. See schedule below. 

Classroom materials for CDL will also stop being sent home after May 10th, unless your student is a 2nd grader participating in CDL. Contact the homeroom teacher for details on picking up materials. 

Dear Families,

The American Heart Association’s Kids Heart Challenge program is kicking off on Monday, April 5th, 2021. To get ready, help your child sign up by downloading the FREE Kids Heart Challenge App for Apple or Android or visit http://www2.heart.org/goto/Peninsula. Your child will choose their heart healthy challenge to Move More, Be Kind or Choose Water and earn a FREE decoder wristband for registering online. Start raising life-saving donations now to earn your heart heroes and get recognized at your assembly!!

 Meet Agent KHC and learn your SECRET Mission to Save the Heart Heroes! (2min video)

 SPECIAL SCHOOL INCENTIVES:

• For Every $500 our school raises a Staff member will be Pie-In-The-Face!!
• The Top Fundraiser will get to Pie Coach Matt in the Face!!
• AND The Top Class will get to Silly String Ms. Molly!!
• Check Peninsula's fundraising progress here.

 Double your donation! Find out if your employer offers matching gifts at www.heart.org/matchinggifts

 Thank you so much for your support of the American Heart Association as we fight COVD-19 on a global scale. We’re investing a minimum of $2.5 million to investigate the implications of coronavirus. The Association has established a $2.5 million rapid research fund to fast-track scientific research to better understand COVID-19 and its interaction with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. For your COVID-19 questions, please click here for a comprehensive list of our resources, all made possible with your continued support.

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

Dear Parents,

      Tomorrow we welcome our first 14 students into Hybrid learning at Peninsula School.  Late last night, we were assigned a teacher for this class.  Ms. Veronica Magallanes, Director of Humanities at PPS will be teaching the class.  I will be meeting students and parents at the back gate to the school grounds on N. Halleck Street at 8 a.m.  Parents please come ready to say goodbye at the gate.  Linked here is the email that went out to K/1 families in the Hybrid class.

          Unfortunately, we will not be able to start our two CB Hybrid classrooms this week as we had anticipated.  The substitute teacher who accepted that position had a family emergency and won’t be able to start until April 15th.  We have attempted many alternative solutions to this challenge and have decided that for the safety and benefit of all our CB students, it is better to wait until we can start this program in a supportive manner.  Linked here is the email that went out to CB families in the Hybrid class.

      We want to thank everyone in the Peninsula community for your flexibility as we hurriedly transition 45 of our students from CDL to Hybrid instruction and grow our LIPI options for K and 3rd-5th graders.  There have been many bumps along the road and I appreciate your grace and patience.  When we left for Spring Break, we had everything finalized but when we returned, I learned that I had lost our K/1 teacher to a reassignment, another teacher had a family emergency, and two of our classrooms were archived in Seesaw effectively obstructing our communication with those student’s Seesaw accounts.   We encountered challenges with transportation and our student management system updates each night.  Zoom permissions didn’t seem to allow our subs to host classes and the substitute teacher assigned to our CB class had a family emergency that will take her away for at least one week.  We are not alone in the struggle, as of Monday there were 41 unfilled positions throughout the district.  It has been bumpy indeed.  Through all of this, the Peninsula staff have come together helping to set up classrooms, securing materials for students, coming up with creative ideas to the latest challenge and so much more.  Thank you to all the parents that have offered grace to us through the many emails and phone calls that we have been making to try to support you.  It really makes a difference to be a part of such a kind, gracious, caring and empathetic community.

While most of our students have not been affected by these changes and interruptions, I know that if your family has been impacted, it has been stressful and does not feel good.  I do apologize for the confusion and I promise you that we are trying to do our very best for students and families.  As you recall, the Governor’s announcement to offer in school instruction shortened our planning time by 3 weeks.  We are definitely seeing the impact of a rushed return.  Below you will find some updates that I hope will support your family.