PCDS Annual Benefit Celebrating 60 Years: Children of the World Gala!
58th Annual Benefit on Friday, April 8!
Please join us for our primary fundraising event of the year from 7-10PM
This year’s Annual Benefit is a Masquerade-themed cocktail party at The Cosmopolitan Club, with both a silent and live auction of exciting items, all donated or solicited by PCDS parents! This is a wonderful occasion for parents to meet one another, so we hope you’ll join us in your best mask and festive cocktail attire. There will be food stations with open seating. To register, please click here!
Please join us for a PCDS Open House!
Our In-Person Open House for those who are fully vaccinated will be held on Wednesday, December 1 at 6:30PM. To register, please click here!
Sierra Lorenzini
Co-President of the Parents Association
Namrata Puri
Co-President of the Parents Association
not pictured
Rebecca Alcalay
Vice President
Jennifer Kim
Vice President
Jason Hedrick
Treasurer of the Parents Association
THE PCDS PARENTS ASSOCIATION (PA)
The strong community at PCDS has always been and continues to be vital to its growth and ability to provide the high standard of teaching and nurturing to its young students. The PCDS PA aims to promote this sense of community by providing a wide range of opportunities for families and parents to connect both to the school and to each other.
All parents and guardians of students attending Park Children’s Day School are members of the PA. We encourage all of our members to become involved in these activities. The success of each event greatly depends on your participation. Key PA activities are described here:
The Annual Benefit is our primary fundraising event. It is a cocktail party for parents with a silent and live auction. Unique and exciting items, all of which are donated or solicited by parents, are offered at auction. This is a wonderful occasion for parents to meet one another, and it is a successful format for fundraising.
The PCDS Book Fair begins with an opening night cocktail reception for parents to socialize and shop, followed by a day of visiting the Book Fair with the children to choose their favorites!
Although the Children’s Lending Library is part of the school curriculum, it is completely parent supported, and volunteer staffed. Beginning in the Threes, children are escorted to the library by parents during the regular school day. Each child may choose one book to take home each week. The Fours and Fives begin to use the library once a week in the fall and the Threes will join the program in January. Please plan to volunteer several times during the year. The children count on, and look forward to, your participation.
This is a great event for dads to get together and socialize in a casual atmosphere.
All PCDS families are invited to join Betsy Newell and Rhonda White for songs three times a year at 8:20 a.m. in the gym. Our musicians/performers are our very own talented PCDS parents!
The Holiday Party is a festive event which will be held in the gym before school. It will include fun winter decor and a cheerful holiday sing-a long! All are welcome!
Alumni are invited back for entertainment and, of course, ice cream while visiting with old friends and former teachers.
This a fun-filled evening of socializing for PCDS moms with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.
Dads prepare and serve breakfast for all families at PCDS. Children come in their pajamas and moms ENJOY!
This is a festive day when teachers and children dress in school colors and “Spirit Wear” to celebrate PCDS! All classes meet to sing the school song and for an all-school photo!
An array of items featuring the PCDS logo are available for purchase online through Lands’ End. The PCDS school number is 900163510.
We sponsor special events including a holiday and end-of-year luncheon for our teachers and staff to let them know how much we appreciate everything they bring to our community.
This is an opportunity for families to clean out their closets and donate gently used adult and children’s clothing, books, toys and equipment to benefit Teacher Appreciation. All unsold items are donated to charities. This is a wonderful community-building event!
PCDS stays in touch with hundreds of its alumni families. Many attend various events at the school long after their children have graduated from PCDS and attend other schools and colleges. Younger ‘alums’ eagerly attend the annual Ice Cream Social in the gym and reunite with their teachers and old friends. A strong sense of community has persisted over several decades, surviving the move to the west side. Deep and lifelong friendships are made between parents during the nursery years. We receive photographs of lunches, dinners, annual holiday parties, and vacation trips years after the children have graduated from PCDS.
Our halls and stairways are decorated with ‘First Day of School’ photos of our alumni. Every December we receive dozens of holiday cards which we display throughout the school. We love seeing the faces of the children we knew so well in the past, and we can’t bear to take the cards down until after spring break. Although our oldest child at PCDS is barely five, every spring we wait with baited breath for news on where our alumni are going to college. We are so proud of our graduates. Often when they get to college they meet up with preschool friends whom they have not seen in 13 years.
We are honored that so many of our graduates elect to send their own children to PCDS, and are deeply appreciative of the trust that all our parents have placed in the school since its founding. We celebrate the continued interest and support of our alumni families.
