June 4, 2025 | Good Soil

A Year With PCS: Thoughts from Mr. Jorgensen


  My first all-school chapel was delightfully shocking. After hours of teacher orientation and with my head reeling from the first weeks of school, I found myself in the back of...

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February 25, 2025 | Special Events

How to Create a Lifelong Reader


What makes a child into a lifelong reader? It could be a favorite bedtime story that sparks the imagination. Or maybe it’s getting hooked on a book series. It could even...

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January 28, 2025 | Everything Has Meaning

Shaping Culture with the House System


Many of our strongest and most formative memories from high school are forged not in the classroom but in the hallways, gyms, and auditoriums. We remember the events that shaped...

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November 24, 2024 | Everything Has Meaning

Why History Day?


Age of Ancient Empires… Why We Teach a Timeline Song + Have a History Day “That’s quite a mouthful of big words!” exclaimed a prospective parent walking out of a PCS classroom...

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June 11, 2024 | Announcements

PCS Students Excel in Classical Competitions


Not surprisingly, the Latin word virtus translates to our word virtue. But–as with many Latin words–it has additional translations that deepen our understanding of how the Romans viewed the concept...

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