📢 Enrollment Open for 2025-2026 PACES!
Pender After School Care Enrichment Services (PACES) is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 school year! PACES operates at all PCS elementary schools and offers:
✅ Hands-on enrichment
✅ Daily homework support
✅ Healthy snacks
Spots fill quickly—apply today! 🔗https://bit.ly/43dOvvK

Did You Know that PCS is once again providing free summer meals to children across the county? Beginning Wednesday, June 18, and running weekly through Wednesday, July 30, families can pick up five days’ worth of breakfast and lunch at four convenient school sites: South Topsail Elementary, C.F. Pope Elementary, Malpass Corner Elementary, and Rocky Point Elementary. Meal pickup will take place every Wednesday from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM. No application is needed, though families are encouraged to pre-register online here 🔗 https://bit.ly/4dqFXoE. Names and ages of children will be required at pickup.

That's a wrap on another incredible school year! Thanks to our amazing students, dedicated staff, and supportive families for making this year unforgettable. Wishing everyone a safe and restful summer. See you all soon! 💙🐢💚

🎉Check out our 5th graders as they walk the SCE hallways one last time. 🔗https://bit.ly/4dsgYl7 🎓Your school is proud of you and we are going to miss you next year. We know you're going to do great things as a shark at SCM. 🦈Remember to come back and say hi to your Sea Turtle family. 🐢
Making a splash and having a blast in the EC room and camping day in 1st grade.







What a great morning celebrating all the success of our 5th graders. We're looking forward to the final hallway walkthrough tomorrow morning.
Yesterday, our 5th graders enjoyed a fun-filled afternoon with a foam party, music, pizza, friendship & more.










Mrs. Allen’s 2nd grade class is celebrating the end of the year by doing measurement activities on “Beach Day”! Thanks parents for the awesome pool/beach float donations that make learning more fun! 🏖️☀️


For first grade's culminating activity for module for Wit and Wisdom, Cinderella stories, Miss Fields dressed up as Disney’s Cinderella and read the Disney version of the story. They compared and contrasted this book to other Cinderella stories that they read during this module.


Check out Ms. Potts' Kindergarten class observing their butterflies that hatched. 🦋




Mrs. Curry's first grade class had fun with glow day learning!








Hello, Sea Turtle Families. I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend as we prepare to go into the last week of school. Please use the following link to access this week's edition of The Turtle Times. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZRNLXFCeYLp4a73ZrquEsSzm3vePpYDI/view?usp=sharing

Kindergarten is hosting a Kindergarten Screening Event for all newly registered Kindergarten students who will be enrolled at SCE for the 25-26 School Year. We can't wait to meet our newest Sea Turtles! All screenings will take place at Surf City Elementary on June 3rd only. Please use the link to sign up for a time slot to have your child complete the screening with one of our Kindergarten teachers. ❗ If your child currently attends Pre-K at SCE they will be screened at school, no need to sign up.❗ 🔗https://bit.ly/4doNfJR

We’ve made it to the end of the school year—no one has energy left to cook, and honestly… why should we?
Join us for our FINAL SPIRIT NIGHT this Monday 5/19 from 4–9pm at Italian Bistro and Phroyo!
BUT WAIT—don’t forget! You MUST mention “SCE Fundraiser” when you order or pick up, or it won’t count toward our total.
Let pizza and froyo do the work while we celebrate making it to the finish line. See you there, SCE fam!
#SCEspiritnight #EndOfYearEats #PizzaAndPhroyo #NoCookingZone #SurfCityElementary

Mrs. Sidbury's 5th grade AIG Math classes worked in teams to create paper roller coasters. Their goal was to have the longest time with a marble run. Team Marlowe, Mackenzie, Brynn, and Lila came in 1st place with a time of 32.56 seconds. Way to Go!!






We're happy to share with you that Leena R. from Ms. Bohrer's 1st grade class is our Sea Turtle of the Week for the week of May 12-16. Leena, your school is proud of you. 💙🐢💚

Did you forget to order a Yearbook? 🤔 No problem! 🙌 Use this information to order and it'll get sent directly to your house. 🔗 https://www.strawbridge.net/ Code: YB29984

Our amazing master gardeners taught us about bees, butterflies, and bats. We also harvested lettuce for the sea turtle hospital!





Mrs. Holmes’s third grade class read the book called “If I Built a School” and then extended it into a STEM challenge! Can you design and then build your own crazy school?



Good afternoon Surf City Families. Bus 223 and bus 230 will be approximately 20-30 minutes late this afternoon. We are sorry for the late notice and the inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your continued support!

