We are getting excited about seeing all of our new and returning Tigers in just a couple of weeks!  Stay tuned for all things “Back to School” so you and your family can be prepared for it.  Please note that the Sneak Peek date has changed.  The new date will be Monday, August 7th.  Please see the details below

Back to School – Save the Dates!

Save the date for our many Back to School events! More details will follow in the weeks to come. You can also find our PTO calendar for the school year here. Please note that dates are subject to change.

• August 2 – Teachers will send email greetings to their classrooms
• August 7 – Sneak-a-Peek and Popsicle Party* – NEW DATE
  New Families Sneak-a-Peek @ 8:15
  All School Sneak-a-Peek and Popsicle Party @ 9:00
  *Families are invited to come meet their teacher and bring school supplies to the classrooms
• August 8 – First Day of School (Half Day for Kindergarteners only)
• August 9 – Half Day for Kindergarteners only
• August 17 – Open House & Invest Kickoff
  5th, 4th and 3rd Grade: 5:00 p.m.
  2nd, 1st and Kindergarten: 6:00 p.m.
• September 1– No School
• September 4-Labor Day, No School
• September 8 – Fall Picnic
• September 11 – Tiger Cup Golf Tournament at Old Natchez

Online School Directory

It’s time to update our online school directory! Please take a few minutes to sign into the directory through the website or by downloading the Membership Toolkit app. Returning families will be prompted to confirm/update your contact information. New families will create a login and password, and then you can input family contact information as well as provide consent for your child’s name or photograph to be included on the PPE website or social media. If you have any issues or questions at all, please reach out to erinkaiser2@gmail.com.

How to Access Class Lists

To see your class list on August 2, please update / register for our online school directory by July 31st! You can sign into the directory through the website or by downloading the Membership Toolkit app. Returning families will be prompted to confirm/update your contact information. New families will create a login and password, and then you can input family contact information as well as provide consent for your child’s name or photograph to be included on the PPE website or social media. Once your information is updated, you’ll be all set to see your class list on August 2. Your new teacher will email you and lists will be posted later that day. If you have any issues or questions at all, please reach out to erinkaiser2@gmail.com.

The Roar Store is a wonderful way to show Percy Priest Spirit. Students can wear Percy Priest Spirit wear shirts any day to school in place of collared shirts. They can wear the spirit shorts/skorts on Fridays. This gear, along with PPE accessories, can be purchased through the Roar Store. The Roar Store shop will be open on the following back to school days:

• August 7 – All School Sneak-a-Peek and Popsicle Party
• August 8 – First Day of School
• August 17 – Open House
• September 8 – Fall Picnic

Updated Standard School Attire 

PPE has revised our SSA standards.  Our website has all of the details about Standard School Attire Check it out before back to school shopping!

Lands’ End will donate 3% of all qualifying Standard School Attire (SSA) purchases to Percy Priest. Its catalog has a large selection of SSA and PPE logo clothing. Visit Lands’ End to place your order! Be sure to link to Percy Priest by linking your account to our Preferred School Number: 900121294

PPE friends and families, get the school year started off on a great note by purchasing labels for your child’s clothing, accessories and bags so anything they lose is easily returned to them!  Order your labels from Mabel’s Labels and the PTO will receive 20% of all proceeds raised. Simply go to www.campaigns.mabelslabels.com and search for Percy Priest Elementary PTO. Purchase your labels and they will ship direct to your door!

The funds raised from this event will be used to support the PTO budget which provides our school with additional staff, software and supplies to our school.

Pre-loved PPE Attire Needed!

It is that time of year- time to clean out your Tiger’s closet before school starts! We will be accepting gently used clothing items or accessories that have PPE’s logo for our inaugural “Percy’s Vintage Closet” sale this fall! More details to come, but anything you’d like to pass on to another Tiger, please drop off on the school’s front porch. Any tops, bottoms, accessories with PPE logos on them that are gently worn, are all accepted!  Look for the marked plastic bins that say “Pre-loved PPE attire” and we’ll take it from there. Thank you!

Are you looking for ways to get involved with our wonderful school for the 2023-2024 school year? Please check out the many volunteer opportunities below for small and big ways to help out. Fill out the form to indicate opportunities that interest you and we will be in touch with more information!

Our dedicated and engaged parents help make Percy Priest Elementary the great school that it is! Thank you for joining us next year as we make it another special year!

Please fill out our form HERE

How to Stay Connected

Email Lists

New families – Be sure to sign up for our school newsletter, which includes grade-level information each week. Register today.

Add PPE happenings to your calendar automatically!

You can subscribe to our PTO calendar and have all of our events show up on your calendar, so you never lose track of important dates! Following the links below will prompt you to subscribe to the calendar via your preferred calendar app. Any time the PTO updates an event through the website, it will update on the calendar of all subscribers (how often your calendar pulls updated info will be based on your individual personal settings – every 5 minutes, 1 hour, 1 week, etc).

For Calendar Apps (apple calendar etc), go to: webcal://www.percypriest.org/?post_type=tribe_events&ical=1&eventDisplay=list

For Google Calendar, go to: https://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=webcal%3A%2F%2Fwww.percypriest.org%2F%3Fpost_type%3Dtribe_events%26tribe-bar-date%3D2022-08-31%26ical%3D1%26eventDisplay%3Dlist