Our Bus Stop Lookup tool is now updated with routes, pickup times, and drop-off times for the new school year. This is the easiest way to confirm your child’s bus information before the year begins.
📍 Click here to check your stop: https://bit.ly/3HtS5tz
Let’s make the first day run smoothly for everyone!
🛡️ As part of the Protecting Our Students Act (S.L. 2023-128), these age-appropriate videos help students recognize and report signs of abuse, neglect, or unsafe situations and emphasize that reporting is always confidential.
🎥 Pender County Schools is committed to complying with this mandate and making sure students know how to stay safe and seek help if needed. Look for information from your school in your email or sent home with your student once classes begin.
Learn more from the State here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3HbOqAq
🚨Attention Fall Sports Parents 🚨
Fall Sports Parent Meeting
Monday, July 28th at 6:00pm
THS Auditorium
Thank you to our softball players, parents, and coaches that came out to our workday on Saturday! Things are looking good!
Throughout the week, they explored strategies to support student success, strengthen classroom instruction, and grow as CTE professionals. 💡✏️
These dedicated educators are one step closer to completing the New Teacher Induction Program, and we can’t wait to see the positive impact they’ll have on our students this school year! 👏
Attention Class of 2026,
If you were unable to sign up for a June portrait date, August dates have been opened! Portrait sessions will be in the THS cafeteria August 11-15. Appointments will fill up quickly, so schedule soon for your portrait session.
Please use this link to schedule your time. These are the portraits that will be used in the yearbook and are available for purchase.
Below is additional information and clarification about senior portraits:
1. Senior Portraits in the summer are done by Strawbridge and include several poses. There is a sitting fee of $39.00 paid to Strawbridge. This has nothing to do with yearbook except Strawbridge shares the gown/tuxedo pose with us to use for the yearbook. In the fall, parents will receive a link by email with the digital proofs to order copies/packages of any of the photos they want.
2. If students can't make any of the summer portrait sessions OR they only want the one pose for the yearbook without paying the sitting fee, there will be a make-up dates on September 11th and 12th for the gown/tuxedo pose that we will use in the yearbook. Parents will receive a link in the fall with the proofs to order for themselves.
3. Students do not need to wear or bring their own formal wear. Strawbridge provides the gown cover-up and the tuxedo top for students to wear in the formal portrait pose.
Thank you and have a great rest of your summer! Go Pirates!
As this year’s Historian for NC HOSA, Cina is participating in leadership training, welcoming and introducing guest speakers during sessions, and building strong connections with the NC HOSA State Officer team.
We are so proud to have Cina as a Pirate, and we can’t wait to see all the incredible things she accomplishes this year in her leadership role! 💙🏴☠️
Starting this August, PCS will shift to a three-tier bell schedule to improve transportation and reduce delays. To support families impacted by these changes, before-school care will be offered for students at the Topsail and Surf City campuses.
🕒 New Bell Schedule Times:
✔ High School: 7:10 AM – 2:05 PM
✔ Elementary: 7:55 AM – 2:50 PM
✔ Middle: 8:40 AM – 3:35 PM
🏫 Before-care is available at:
📍 Topsail Campus
📍 Surf City Campus
💲 $22/week per student
📅 Registration opens July 28 — details coming soon!
📲 Read more: https://www.pender.k12.nc.us/article/2308349
🚙 Topsail Campus Traffic Pattern Map: https://5il.co/3lrrj
🚗 Surf City Traffic Pattern Map: https://5il.co/3lrrm
👕🧺 Three Topsail High School students in the Pender County Future Leaders Internship Program are stepping up for their community with Tote & Take, a countywide clothing drive happening Wednesday, July 31, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Donation boxes are already out — so start gathering those gently used clothes and help make this student-led project a success! 📦
📍Drop-off locations include:
➡️ Pender County Human Resources, Social Services, Health Department & Administration Buildings (Burgaw)
➡️ Burgaw & Hampstead Libraries
➡️ Hampstead Annex Building
➡️ Brown Dog Coffee (Burgaw)
➡️ Steadfast Nutrition (Hampstead)
There’s a convenient location near you — let’s fill those boxes! 👟👖
🌟 This drive is part of the Future Leaders Internship Program, a paid summer opportunity from Pender County Government that gives students hands-on experience in local government, mentorship, and civic engagement. These students aren’t just learning — they’re leading. 💙💛
