This will be an exciting month for us at Pleasant Grove Elementary, as we will celebrate The Great Kindness Challenge at the end of the month! This is a week in its 15 year of celebration at many schools across the United States. For more information on how it is celebrated across the country, and how you can engage as a family, click here: https://thegreatkindnesschallenge.com/

To prepare for our celebration, we will be participating in our Character Strong proactive bullying prevention lessons. We have begun to notice some behaviors that could lead to bullying, and we want to get ahead of it. We will need your help! In our later pages of the Gazette we will provide some things you can talk to your children about at home to keep our school the wonderfully supportive and safe place that it is.

In other news, we are excited to host some VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Media) events this spring! Phil Tulga will be at our school to do daytime assemblies for our students, and then a family night to make some instruments in the evening.
Mr. Leonard, our Visual Arts teacher, will be hosting a Family Art Night on March 4 to showcase some of our student art and invite families to participate in art activities together.

Last, we are so grateful to Andi Linley for stepping up to coach not just one but TWO PGES basketball teams! We were able to place everyone who
tried out and we look forward to some great competition. We do need a volunteer parent referee! If you can help out, please contact Coach Andi
or myself.

 

Let’s make 2026 our best year yet!