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To empower students to reach their full potential as lifelong learners and responsible community members.
To engage, support and inspire learning so that all students can achieve their full potential.
We challenge all students to achieve academic success while also developing physically, socially, and emotionally.
Our goal is to work in a partnership with home, school, and community to model and promote a respectful, safe and kind environment.

Peterborough Elementary School recently welcomed Renata Bowers for an author's visit. Bowers is the writer of the Frieda B. book collection that earned the National Moonbeam Children's Book Award.
In the book series, Frieda B., a fiery red-headed girl with a deeply creative mind, goes on imaginative adventures, learns lessons of kindness, and comes to believe in her own unique importance in the world, becoming free to be herself.
Bowers visited 3rd and 4th grade classrooms over a two-day residency period. In the first session, she shared the story of Frieda B. and the Finkledee Ink. Frieda dreams of becoming a great writer and believes the "Finkledee Ink" peddled by a traveling salesman will help her fulfill that dream. When the jar breaks, Frieda realizes that the talent was in her all along. The story teaches children that natural gifts and dreams do not require anything to be bought or acquired to be realized.
In the second session, Bower shared Frieda B. and the Zillabeast, a story about the importance of kindness and putting others first. When Frieda and her dog Zilla immerse themselves into the world of classic fairy tales, Zilla grows bigger, angrier, and more "growly" with every turn of the page. The story explores what caused Zilla's monstrous transformation and what it takes to return him to his sweet self. The story teaches children about the importance of putting others first and about the healing power of caring for one another.
At the close of each residency, the 3rd and 4th grade students completed banners, representing their ability to internalize and share how each of them uniquely matters ("I know I matter because I offer something unique and good to the world"); has a sense of belonging ("I know I belong because these people believe in me"); and can/should do hard things ("I know I can find the good in hard things").
Students celebrated the author's visit with a whole-school assembly.
Click here to read the October 2, 2026 newsletter by acting Principal Shawne Hilliard.

Click here to read the September 18, 2026 newsletter by Principal Tammy O'Connor.
Click here to read the September 11, 2026 newsletter by Principal Tammy O'Connor.
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Ms. LaRoche's 3rd grade class got up in front of the school on Friday morning and led the school through some songs and greetings, "Rise and Shine and "Hey There Neighbor". It got the school up and moving, and taught them a kind and fun way to start their day with other students in the class.
Click here to read the September 6, 2026 newsletter by Principal Tammy O'Connor.
Click here to read the August 28, 2026 newsletter by Principal Tammy O'Connor.