Welcome to the 2024-2025 School Year! This is the inaugural edition of the new The Week Ahead communication, which will be in your inbox on Sunday evenings. Please remember to check your Pirate Page for additional updates.

Information for Lower & Middle Divisions

• You recently received this email from Nifemi and Scott regarding special instructions for the all-school assembly on Friday, August 30. All families, parents and guardians are encouraged to attend. Pre-K students attending are strongly encouraged to attend with a parent or guardian to help ease their transition to school. Students will be bussed back to Carmel campus after assembly. If you would prefer to drive them back to Carmel campus, please indicate that your child will NOT be riding on the bus using the link in the email from Nifemi and Scott.
• Medication drop-off will take place during orientation on Tuesday, August 27.  If your child takes daily medication during school hours, please drop off their medication in its original packaging with your child's name, the medication's name, the dosage, the route, and the timing. Medication drop-off will be available in the main office. There will be one basket for each division. Please reach out to Heidi Ley, RN, school nurse, with any questions.

Lower Division

• Orientation for students and families takes place on Tuesday, August 27, at 10:00 a.m. Orientation information is available on the welcome website. Please note, contrary to previous communications, students are welcome to attend the orientation on Wednesday, August 28 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Supervised free play will be provided for all students in attendance.
  

Middle Division

• Please note that orientation for students and families takes place on Tuesday, August 27, at 1:00 p.m. -3:30 p.m. Orientation information is available on the welcome website. Please check-in and pick up your name tags at your grade-level table.
• During your advisory meeting at orientation, you will receive a packet with the specific science camp your child will attend, information about the camp, an equipment list, food information, and forms to be completed. Below are the dates and locations of the camps.
  • Grade 5 – Big Sur from Wednesday, September 18, to Friday, September 20.  
  • Grade 6 – The Pinnacles from Tuesday, September 17, to Friday, September 20.
  • Grade 7 – Yosemite from Monday, September 16, to Friday, September 20.
  • Grade 8 – Catalina Island from Monday, September 16, to Friday, September 20.

• Our New Student Orientation continues 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. on Monday, August 26 and Tuesday, August 27 for all new students to the Pebble Beach campus. Students should wear comfortable shoes and clothing, as we will be walking to the beach and engaging in different activities around campus. We welcome back all returning students not involved in preseason programming on Tuesday as well. Check your Pirate Page for individualized arrival times. Please be sure to complete all post-enrollment forms on both students and parent/guardian Pirate Pages, as this makes the check-in process much smoother.
• School officially begins for the upper division at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 28. All students will begin in advisory and then follow a modified Day 1 schedule.
• Non-scholastic co-curriculars begin on Thursday. Additional announcements will be made to students at Wednesday's upper division assembly; they should see Erik Olson, dean of co-curricular education, with questions.
• Please note that this weekend (August 30-September 2) is a Closed Weekend for resident students as we settle into school; no overnight weekend passes will be issued.

• Families are invited to join us for our second annual All-School Assembly in the Wandke Amphitheater this Friday, August 30 from 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. as we kick-off the year. Note that all students must be at school by 8:30 a.m.
  
• The first few parent/guardian events are now posted on your Pirate Page. Our annual welcome back coffee, a PPC beach walk and talk, and our fall book club are now posted.
• Please complete your volunteer form on the volunteering tab of your Pirate Page.