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Celebrating Our Students

Challenge students are faced with many challenging challenges in Challenge class! To assist with generating loads of ideas for the year, they designed and created their own thinking caps! The finished products must fit on their heads, be balanced, stand at least 6 inches tall, and illustrate how 2D paper can become 3D shapes all while utilizing paper engineering techniques!

Huge THANK YOU to Mrs. Miller for providing this challenging opportunity!

Students will be bringing home information about this Fun Run, scheduled for October 16 in the morning. Our goal is to raise enough funds to pave our track!

Elementary Grades

How is a grade assigned? Not every assignment affects a grade the same way. In grades K–5, assignments are grouped into three categories:

• 20% PRACTICE: Practice helps your child learn.
• 30% PROGRESS: Progress shows growth along the way.
• 50% PERFORMANCE & PRODUCT: Performance and Product show what your child can do independently.

This week: Review your child's assignments and note the different categories.

The Panther Kickoff!

Smiles Dental Clinic

The Smiles Dental Clinic was held Sept. 25 at PVES. Due to the large number of students on the list, the dental clinic will return next Friday on October 2 to see the students who were unable to be seen this week.

Please make sure all forms are turned in before next Wednesday if you would like your child to be seen by the dental clinic.

Parent Permission Form

Call Nurse Weaver at the school with any questions, or email mweaver@rockingham.k12.va.us.

Digital Books in Home Language

Traffic Pattern at PVES

Vehicles planning to park in the PVES front parking lot are able to enter through the upper entrance on Early Road. Please make sure to stop at the stop sign and obey traffic laws, as well as school staff who may be directing traffic.

Morning Drop-Off

1. Please enter through the lower entrance as you have been doing and pull up to the stop sign at the corner to allow more cars to be unloaded.
2. All traffic will be directed to turn LEFT ONTO THE NEW EXIT after dropping off. If that route becomes backed up, traffic will be directed to use the exit onto Pleasant Valley Road.
3. Please do not get out of your vehicle. If your child needs assistance unbuckling, do so once you have stopped or please teach your child how to unbuckle.

Afternoon Pick-Up

1. When forming the afternoon pick-up line, vehicles should continue to create a lane on the right side of the driveway leading up to Pleasant Valley Elementary from the lower entrance off Early Road.
2. Please do not block the space between the cones at the rear of the school until instructed to pull forward after all alternate school transportation vehicles have left.
3. An orange cone will be placed directly behind the last car in the right lane as an indicator to know the right lane is full. Once the cone is placed, please form or join the left lane. Do not start a left lane until instructed to do so.
4. All traffic will be directed to turn LEFT onto the new exit after picking up your child. If that route becomes backed up, traffic will be directed to use the exit onto Pleasant Valley Road.
5. Please do not exit your vehicle during drop-off or pick-up.

Cafeteria Information

The RCPS Food and Nutrition Services team is committed to serving healthy, quality and affordable meals every day - helping fuel your child's learning and well-being.

Changes to Purchasing "Extras" in Elementary Schools

Elementary school cafeterias will no longer sell certain items, such as chips, on a daily basis.

Pricing Information and Purchasing Guidelines

Meal Payment: A student breakfast costs $2.00 and a student lunch costs $3.25. Payments for meals may be made online, or by cash or check at your child's school.

Pay Online with MySchoolBucks

If paying by cash or check, please send payment in an envelope with your child to school with the child's name, grade and PIN number.

Free and Reduced-Price Meal Applications

Forms remain available throughout the school year. Online meal applications may be completed at MySchoolApps and paper applications are available at each school.

In order to qualify for free or reduced-price meals at all RCPS schools, families must submit a free and reduced-price meal application, or qualify automatically through participation in certain programs such as SNAP.

Nutritious Meals

Elementary students are encouraged not to consume carbonated beverages while at school. Energy drinks are not allowed to be consumed by students during school lunches or other times of the day.

Students are welcome to bring a water bottle to school and to refill it as needed from a water fountain. Additionally, packed lunches for students should be healthy and nutritious and should not regularly have commercial fast-food for lunch.

Questions? Call 540-434-7783 or email foodservice@rockingham.k12.va.us.

PVES Book Donation

Hello from Mrs. Woodward

Hello! I am excited about beginning my School Counseling Classroom lessons for the 2026-2027 school year! This year, I will be sharing topics the PVES School Counseling Lessons will focus on each month.

During September, grades 3-5 will focus on what makes a good friend, compromising and solving friendship conflicts. In grades K-2 we will learn about how School Counselors help us and strategies to solve friendship conflicts.

Mrs. Woodward, School Counselor

Attendance Information

Parents/Guardians: Please remember to notify the school when your child is absent. This allows us to ensure and verify our attendance is correct.

If your child has been sick, please keep your child home until he or she is fever-free for 24 hours without medication.

You are welcome to notify the school using either of these methods:

Phone: (540) 434-4557
Email: pvesattendance@rockingham.k12.va.us

Box Tops for Education

Transportation Notice

Please notify the school office or your child's teacher with any transportation changes. If a change happens during the day, call the school before 1:00 pm so that school staff has adequate time to notify your child's teacher and the bus driver, if necessary.

If the school is unaware of any transportation change, we will put your child on their assigned school bus.

Pre-School Programs Information

There are two pre-school programs at Pleasant Valley Elementary. One is through Virginia Pre-School Initiative (VPI), which has students who have reached age 4 and qualify for the program. The other program is Early Childhood Special Education for students eligible for services, but have not reached school-age.

Please see the below flyers for more information:

English Version   |   Spanish Version