Purcell Elementary School

Purcell Public Schools is pleased to provide our students and the community with a Summer Feeding Program again this year. This program is open to children ages 0-18 years of age. Summer Feeding will begin on Tuesday, May 17th and continue through June 28th. The meals will be in boxes and cover five days worth of meals. Drive through distribution at Purcell Elementary School (on the south side by the cafeteria) and will be from 7:00 am - 9 am and 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm. Drop off service will be available at the sites and times below: Hallmark Trailer Park (11:00 A.M.-11:20 A.M.) 500 Hallmark Blvd Purcell Mobile Home Park (11:25 A.M.-11:45 A.M.) 3000 S. 9th Southway Mobile Home Park (11:50 A.M.-12:10 P.M.) Elliot Dr. Please contact Dr. Sheli McAdoo with any questions at mcadoos@purcellps.org. Dates: May 24th, May 31st, June 7th, June 14th, June 21st, & June 28th.

Play Streets - Healthy Fun in our Community! TSET Healthy Living Program serving McClain County will be providing Play Street days in our community.  Please save the dates and come join the fun!

Thank you so much to Melissa Young and Andrea Dowell and the rest of the Chickasaw Nation Eagle Adventure team for partnering with Purcell Elementary to bring diabetes prevention education to our 1st and 2nd graders through their Eagle Adventure program. It was a great program for our students and so easy to implement. We greatly enjoyed and appreciated our partnership this school year and look forward to continuing it in the future. Thank you for the sweet sinch sacks on the last day of school! #DragonCARES🐲❤️🦅

Attendance is very important! We are excited to award 11 students this honor today. Way to be at school every day! Thank you parents of these students for your support! 🐲❤️#DragonCARES E is for Excellence! Nice job Alexander Carrillo, Campbell Cunningham, Ulises Espinoza, Joseph Franco, Nathalia Gutierrez, Allison Martinez, Danahe Olguin, Janki Patel, Avery Powell, Indy Venegas, & Ramsey Wilken. 🐲❤️

We have been working hard in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades on our sight words to finish out our year strong! These students have all learned new words to earn their 25, 50, 100, 250 and a few earned advanced sight word BRAG TAG! Way to go Dragons!! We are so proud of you!🐲❤️

Happy Last Day of School! There will be a newsletter coming today with Summer Reading Challenge information, Summer School information and Summer Feeding Plan. Thank you for blessing us with your children this year! ❤️🐲 Have a great last day Dragons! ❤️🐲🎉

Tomorrow is the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL and will wrap up the 2021-2022 school year! We are going to finish out with a FREE hat day tomorrow to celebrate so join us and wear your favorite hat for FREE! Remember tomorrow is parent picnic for Kindergarten, 1st & 2nd grades! PreK had theirs last week at the park. Pack a simple lunch for you and your child and have lunch together. There will be limited picnic tables so bring a blanket to ensure you have a place to sit. #DragonCARES🐲❤️🧺 Lunch times- 1st Grade 10:45 2nd Grade 11:30 Kindergarten 12:15

Such a fun time celebrating with our Freedom Fun Run Donation winners today! The bus ride was the best part and then pizza with the Principal! It was a bonus to get driven in style by Mrs. Jackie! 🚌Thank you all for contributing to our schools! 🐲❤️🍕

Thank you to the community of Purcell for your amazing support of our fundraiser! Our PTO did an amazing job managing this event and because of YOU, together with the Intermediate, we raised $9,714.94! If you forgot to send your envelope in, you may still turn this in at the office. This money will go to support the Elementary and Intermediate Schools next year. We are all winners for participating. I am sharing some pictures below of our top lap runners as well as donation winners. Most Corporate Donations - Pizza with the Principal - Lane Montgomery, Markey Jacks, & Thomas Montgomery. Most Personal Donations - Pizza with the Principal - Sawyer Creswell, Gentry Klein, Brayden Ale, Illiana Swartz, & Easton Lizana. Most Laps Ran - Candy & Medal Winners - Shawk Tyler, Jarik Watt, Bentlee Nicklas, Owen Page, Bentley Miller, Gunnar Uhl, Faith Gillen, Delanie Wartchow, Sawyer Midkiff, & Thomas Montgomery. Thank you for supporting our schools and students! We were so proud to run in honor of our Veterans!

Thank you Veterans for your service! ♥️🇺🇸 Freedom Fum Run was a huge success!! Thank you to all parents, grandparents, friends, relatives and businesses that supported our schools for this event! We are so thankful for your support and were excited to walk in support and/or rememberance of our Veterans today! 🐲♥️🐲 A special shout out to Jason Pruitt for donating water for all of our students and staff!! It was much appreciated on such a hot day! ♥️🐲♥️#DragonCARES We will post pictures of donation winners and lap winners tomorrow morning! Thank you to the community of Purcell for your amazing support of our fundraiser! 🐲♥️🐲

Come out and support us at the Freedom Fun Run today!

Mrs. Tyler & our 2nd Grade Teachers have been challenging our 2nd graders to READ! These 2nd graders have been working hard to read and take tests on books. We are super proud of them! They’ve earned brag tags and some have earned McDonald’s certificates. Way to go Dragons!! Keep READING!!❤️🐲📚

Thank you, Kerry Wilhoit, from McClain Bank for spreading JOY to our teachers and staff today by bringing their favorite Sonic drink and cookies!! What a treat on this last week of school!! 🍒🥤❤️🐲#DragonCARES

Thank you to these two amazing Purcell High School students; Rosalina Venegas & Tegan Ballard for drawing & painting our Dragon at the elementary!! They did a very nice job and took such pride in their work! It looks AMAZING! Our students and staff love it!! Thank you! #DragonCARES #DragonPRIDE 🐲❤️🐲🥰⭐️

Thank you all for pampering us and showing such love and support to our teachers and staff this week! We cannot thank you enough for how special you made us feel! 💕🥰🐲#DragonCARES As the week closes and this special weekend is begins, let us all honor our Mothers! Hug your mother tight and show her love and help her with chores this weekend. Pamper her well and let her know how much you appreciate all that she does. Happy Mother’s Day! 💕💐

Thank you Assembly of God Church for blessing our teachers and staff with Chick-fil-a lunches! We appreciate you thinking of us and taking care of us today! We really love your little helpers; Emory and Caleb Sims!🥰#DragonCARES 🐲❤️🐲

Although tomorrow is the last day of Teacher Appreciation Week, our teachers and staff are important to us every day. Please join us and wear RED to show our DRAGON PRIDE for our teachers & staff! They are the best Dragons Leaders ever! Their influence can never be erased! 🐲❤️ #DragonCARES

Thank you PTO for providing cookies from Eileen’s Cookies and Peggy Haynes today to Teachers and Staff! They are super CUTE and so delicious! We are so thankful for our teachers and staff and all that they do! We have some smart cookies all because of them! 🐲❤️🍪🎉 #DragonCARES #OKLAED

The late Rita Pearson is one of my favorite leaders and her speech on being a champion for children always moved me when I listen to it. https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion We are so super thankful for our PES teachers and staff and the Champions they are for our students! Dragons let’s be our best tomorrow and show our best DRAGON CARES character traits tomorrow for our teachers! C - Cooperation A - Awesome Attitude R - Respect E - Excellence or Empathy S - Self Control Our teachers and staff deserve the very best so let’s show them we have the best character tomorrow and shine bright for them to show our appreciation of the champion they are for us! 🤩⭐️💫🐲❤️

Thank you Senator Jessica Garvin & Representative Cindy Roe for stopping by to support our teachers! The muffins were a sweet treat! Thank you for joining us on morning announcements with Kindergartener, Marcus Williams, from Mrs. Walkup’s Kindergarten class. It was such a joy! 🐲❤️#DragonCARES #OKLAED