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January 13, 2025

August 5, 2024

As we begin the new year, I’d like to mention that nationwide, January is recognized as School Board Appreciation Month. Our Board members are the unsung heroes for our District. They dedicate countless hours to make sure the success and well-being of our students, staff, and community. Their leadership, vision, and commitment provide the foundation for everything we achieve together. A heartfelt thanks to our Board for their steadfast service and loyalty to Putnam City.

Looking ahead, we are now less than a month away from the 2025 Innovation Bond vote on February 11th. On our website, under the 2025 Innovation Bond tab, you can now see a countdown to February 11th by day, hour, minute and second. This Bond represents a vital opportunity to invest in the future of our District, with plans for modernizing and upgrading facilities, expanding educational opportunities, enhancing our operations, and prioritizing safety while not raising taxes. I encourage our community to stay informed about this important vote, ask questions, and make your voices heard on February 11th. For a complete list of all projects for the District and individual schools, visit our Bond website at putnamcityschools.org/2025bond. Let’s boldly invest in our future together.

-Dr. Fred Rhodes

January 20 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day, No School, District Offices Closed

February 3- Site Professional Day, No School

The 2025 Innovation Bond Special Bond Election is set for February 11, 2025.

Please mark your calendars to vote and boldly invest in our future of PC Schools the week of Valentine's Day!

To learn more about the exciting projects included in the Bond for each school and districtwide, visit our 2025 Bond website at putnamcityschools.org/2025bond

The Putnam City Association of Classroom Teachers recognized our 27 Site Teachers of the Year during tonight's Board meeting. We look forward to honoring them again at the Teacher of the Year banquet later this semester. Congratulations on this incredible honor!

It was all concentration at the elementary PC Chess Tournament. Guaranteed, you've never heard a room full of elementary students this quiet!

The Overholser Oilers participated in a fun DEAR Day, dressing up in pjs and even having special guests come read for them! Malcolm Tubbs, OKC Thunder and OU Football Emcee AND PCW graduate, kicked off the morning reading his favorite book, 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘮 𝘎𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘈𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯!

Check out these hardworking Northridge Knights! 4th and 5th grade leadership students volunteered at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma recently with their School Counselor, Laura Hardee. The experience expanded students' understanding of good citizenship and contributing to meet the needs of others. They helped prepare almost 11,000lbs of food into over 3,000 bags for Oklahomans in just a few hours!

Students from 10 different elementary schools, staff, and family members came together at PC High for the highly anticipated annual PC Stars of the Future event! This event is always fun as it is their first time participating in Special Olympics. There were definitely plenty of star athletes in training.

Check out Western Oaks Middle School Cheer on the big stage! The Warriors recently traveled to Dallas to compete in the NCA Regional State of Texas Championship and took 3rd place in the JH/MS Novice Division! Let's go, Warriors! Way to represent Oklahoma and PC Schools!

All action-packed matches at Putnam City Wrestling Duals, where grit met greatness!

These 6th-grade Capps students are solving more than just math problems; they are making a difference in the community! After collecting food for the Capps Food Pantry in November, they decided they wanted to go even bigger for December. A group of about 100 students collected food and donated it all to City Center. Their math teacher, Mr. Cobb, said his goal is to instill in his students to "see a need...meet a need."

Meet Putnam City's newest celebrity, Lovely Zuniga Sosa, a 4th grader at Overholser Elementary! A couple of months ago, author Scott Reintgen visited and talked with students about his popular books and gave students an opportunity to enter a nationwide contest to be written into his next book as an actual character! Well, skip to now and we have a winner!

While it may be cold outside, the competition was heating up inside at the PC Invitational Swim Meet!

Huge congratulations to PC North Senior, Kha Truong! Through the QuestBridge National College Match Scholarship, Kha has been named a finalist and recipient of a full-ride plus expenses four-year scholarship to Stanford University!

The QuestBridge Match Program has over 25,500 applicants, 7,288 finalists, and this year, only 2,627 finalists matched with 52 college partners, which are all prestigious private universities. This highly competitive program connects high-achieving students who would otherwise not have the resources to attend prestigious private universities with opportunities to propel them to lives of fulfillment, meaning, and purpose.

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