Pemberton Elementary

Costume day at school = pure joy! 🎃✨ Thank you to our students and staff for dressing up and bringing the fun.

🎃🍬 What an Incredible Trunk or Treat Celebration! 🍬🎃 Wow! We are so grateful for the incredible turnout from our Pemberton families and the overwhelming support from our staff, families, volunteers, and community partners who helped make this event such a success! A huge THANK YOU to our families and staff for your generous donations to our Classroom Candy Contest. Together, we collected an amazing 649.83 pounds of candy! We also want to thank everyone who created and hosted the incredible trunks that brought so much excitement and joy to our students and families. Special appreciation goes to our community partners: 🧡 Pemberton Judy Center for partnering with us and providing food, entertainment, and event supplies. 🎃 Harris Market for generously donating pumpkins for our families. 🌭🎵 Cross Pointe Church for grilling hot dogs, serving food to our families, and coordinating DJ T-Dome/T&S Entertainment Group LLC for the festive and fun music throughout the evening. 🎓 JMB High School and Parkside High School for the many student volunteers who dedicated their time to helping make the event run smoothly. 🚜 City of Salisbury for hosting a table, providing lighting, and bringing the front loader that became a favorite family photo opportunity. 💙 Chesapeake Health Care for attending and sharing valuable information and resources with our families. 🎨 Jewel Entertainment Company for providing airbrush face painting and helping create special memories for our students. 👮 Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office for attending and providing security to help ensure a safe and enjoyable event for all. 📸 A special thank you to Mrs. Stevens for taking incredible photos that captured the excitement, smiles, and memorable moments from throughout the evening. Events like this remind us how fortunate we are to be surrounded by such a caring and supportive community. Thank you to everyone who attended, volunteered, donated, sponsored, and helped create an evening filled with smiles, laughter, and togetherness. We are proud to be One School, One Community at Pemberton! 🐼💙 #PembertonPride #PandaPride #OneCommunity #TrunkOrTreat #CommunityStrong #ThankYouPartners

💙 A big thank you to Elks Lodge 817 for their generous donation of snacks for our extracurricular activities and sports teams! Your support helps keep our students fueled and ready to give their best. We're so grateful to have you in our community.

Starlight School Night — A Family Learning Extravaganza is coming soon!

Join us Tuesday, October 20 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the Junior Achievement Center (301 Tilghman Rd., Salisbury, MD 21804) for a fun night of learning and family fun!

Visit information tables about learning opportunities in our schools. Explore hands-on STEM activities, create art, enjoy student performances, visit the UMES STEM Mobile Lab and watch Young Business Leaders Fishbowl make their pitch and take the LEGO challenge. Boxed dinners will be provided (while supplies last). Interpreters will be available.

Come explore, play, and learn together at Starlight School Night!

Calendar reminder: Schools are closed on Friday, Oct. 16 for students and most school staff, for the Maryland State Education Association Convention. Central Office and school offices are open.

Letter days for elementary students (including those at Pittsville Elementary & Middle) are posted each week during the school year. The schedule of letter days is on school web pages in Live Feed, and on the school system's website, in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

📚🐼 September Caught Reading Congrats to our Pandas who turned in their Caught Reading tickets and earned a FREE book to take home! 🎉 Keep up the great work!

🪱 WORM WATCHERS AT WORK! 🔬 Mrs. Rhoads' fifth grade class has been learning all about decomposers! Last week they observed worms up close, then designed simple experiments to find out whether worms prefer dry or wet spots, and light or dark ones

🍟 THANK YOU, PEMBERTON FAMILIES! 🍔 What a fantastic night at this year's McTeacher Night! Thank you to all the families, students, and staff who came out and showed so much support for Pemberton Elementary. A big thank-you to the Welburn Management McDonald's team for partnering with us again. 💙

🍁🏃‍♂️Great day at cross country practice yesterday!

🍂Thank you to all the families who came out and registered for our Title I "Leaf It to US" Fall PAC & Strategy Workshop last week!

A Superintendent's Open Door Session will take place from 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7. Time with Superintendent of Schools Dr. Micah Stauffer is on a first-come, first-served basis, at the school system's main office at 2424 Northgate Drive, Salisbury.

The next monthly meeting of the Wicomico County Board of Education is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 13, 2026, in the Board of Education Auditorium at 101 Long Ave., Salisbury.

For this Board meeting, the Board will convene at 1:00 p.m. and immediately vote to go into closed session. The open portion of the meeting will begin at about 1:30 p.m. The agenda for this meeting is available at https://wicomico-schools.community.highbond.com/Portal/

To register for public comments, please visit the pre-registration page (https://board_public_comments.wicomicoschools.org/), which is open from October 6 - 12. Anyone unable to pre-register online may visit the school system office at 2424 Northgate Drive during business hours to fill out a paper copy of the pre-registration form.

This meeting will be livestreamed on the Watch Board Meetings page of the school system's website - www.wicomicoschools.org

Meetings are also viewable after they have ended at https://www.wicomicoschools.org/page/watch-board-meetings

Last Friday was National Custodian Day, and we're so grateful for our building maintenance team! 🧹 Thank you for keeping our spaces clean, safe, and running smoothly every day. 💙 Special thanks to: Mr. Darcy Cooper Mr. Lester Young Ms. Patricia Brown Mr. Alvin Garrison Mr. Samuel Johnson Mr. Brian Jones Ms. Jaybreah Palmer Mrs. Barbra Shockley

This Week at Pemberton 🐼

Letter days for elementary students (including those at Pittsville Elementary & Middle) are posted each week during the school year. The schedule of letter days is on school web pages in Live Feed, and on the school system's website, in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

Wicomico Public Schools and Superintendent Dr. Micah Stauffer's 2026 - 27 "Plan for Success" is now available for reading on the Superintendent's web page at https://www.wicomicoschools.org/page/superintendent-of-schools

Wicomico County Public Schools is a CEP (Community Eligibility Provision) school system in which all students may eat meals at no charge. We’re pleased to provide meals for students to support good health and readiness for instruction. Thanks to the team at Salisbury Middle for letting us share these photos of a recent lunch shift. Find October breakfast and lunch menus for Wicomico students on the school system’s Food & Nutrition Services website: https://www.schoolnutritionandfitness.com/index.php?sid=1748883292658&page=menus&sm=10&sy=2026#/clicktoscroll

Progress reports covering the first several weeks of the school year come out today, Sept. 30. It's a good check-in for students, teachers and families.

The Wicomico County Board of Education held a work session on September 29, 2026, that included the review of policies being moved forward to the October 13, 2026, Board Meeting. Those policies are available for public review at this link: https://www.wicomicoschools.org/page/policy-creation-review

Individuals wishing to provide comments on any of the policies before the Board meeting may send their thoughts to comments@mywcps.org or mail them to Dr. Brian Raygor, Wicomico County Public Schools, 2424 Northgate Drive, Salisbury, MD 21802.