Welcome to Pioneer Elementary School
we are MISSION driven
At Pioneer, our learning environment exists beyond the classroom walls in socially embedded communities that promote choice and self-advocacy. Through personalized inquiry based projects and authentic experiences, learners will collaborate with multi-aged peers to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and mindsets needed to identify and solve our most pressing global issues.
Address
8502 Skansie Ave
Gig Harbor, WA 98332
Phone
Main Office: (253) 530-3500
School Hours
M, T, TH & F: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Wednesday: 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
School Leadership
Stephanie Strader - Principal
Pioneer Elementary News
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Families can submit an interest survey for their child to attend Pioneer Elementary School, the Peninsula School District’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) school for the 2023-2024 school year.
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Pioneer Elementary School parents and Superintendent Bahr were treated to a special party last week at Pioneer Elementary School in Taylor Marshall’s K/1 class as her students presented their class non-fiction book about the moon.
![Learn more about how students can use technology safely]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1679001491/psd401net/js7xsbmoiyviymkpccbc/ParentsTechNightWebPostSize.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1679001491/psd401net/js7xsbmoiyviymkpccbc/ParentsTechNightWebPostSize.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1679001491/psd401net/js7xsbmoiyviymkpccbc/ParentsTechNightWebPostSize.png","width":800}])
The Peninsula School District, in partnership with Tom Taylor YMCA and Resurrection Church, invites families to attend “Parents’ Tech Night” from 6 - 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 23.
This free event, hosted at Tom Taylor YMCA, will help equip parents with resources to help their kids engage with technology in healthy, helpful ways. There will be information and discussion about safe use of smartphones, online videos, and more!
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Peninsula School District invites everyone in the community to join us in our reading challenge. Our goal is to collectively read 1 million minutes by the last day of school, June 21, 2023.
Peninsula Light Company and PSD have collaborated to launch a ‘minutes read’ collection webpage as part of Peninsula Reads. When you’ve completed your reading activity, simply sign in and record how many minutes you read! Use this tool to log your reading minutes.
![Now is the time to sign-up for Right At School Winter Break Camp!]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1670698266/psd401net/nfluhci64htpx4sbqcqw/WebPostphototemplate7.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1670698266/psd401net/nfluhci64htpx4sbqcqw/WebPostphototemplate7.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1670698266/psd401net/nfluhci64htpx4sbqcqw/WebPostphototemplate7.png","width":800}])
Now is the time to sign-up your student for Right At School Winter Break Camp!
This year's theme is "Cool Contraptions and Connections." Students will experiment and explore, create and construct fun activities.
Price: $35 per day
Dates: Dec. 19 - Dec. Dec. 22, and Dec. 27 - Dec. 29. from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Place: Pioneer Elementary School, 8502 Skansie Ave, Gig Harbor, WA 98332.
Enroll your student today at ras.news/winter.
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You can support our youngest learners by reading in our elementary schools!
Guest readers are invited to share their favorite book or read a book provided to them as part of Peninsula Reads, our community-wide effort to promote literacy development in young children.
Readers are needed now through Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Sign up here.
Pioneer Elementary School Calendar
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PIE Gym, PIE- Commons