Our Pickett’s Mill PTA and Foundation Foundation is AMAZING! Our “Surrender the Booty”fundraiser was a huge success!! These moms and dads work so hard throughout the year to make great experiences for our 🏴‍☠️ students & staff here at the Mill!! #AnchoredInLeadership 🏴‍☠️☠️⚓️🌴🦜

Fantastic Chick-fil-A, Inc. lunch from Chick-Fil-A Acworth w our Depew Orthodontics Leader of the Week to wrap up his week of recognition!!! 🏴‍☠️🦜⚓️☠️ #AnchoredinLeadership #BestJobinCobb

Celebrating hard work & BIG fundraising wins with the coolest treat ❄️🍧 🏴‍☠️ 🌈 🏃‍♂️ Kona Ice Pickett's Mill ES 🏴‍☠️⚓️☠️🦜

When family shows up, students shine brighter 🌟 Thank you to all who came to support our Color Run! 🏃‍♂️ 🌈🏴‍☠️

At Pickett's Mill ES 🏴‍☠️⚓️☠️🦜 , we don’t just run the race—we cheer each other to the finish line 🏴‍☠️💙 The cheer station brought the energy 🌟 Loud voices, big smiles, and Pirate pride on full display! 🌈 🏃‍♂️

Even I couldn’t resist the fun—bubbles & chalk brought out the Pirate kid in all of us! 🫧🎨💙

Big thanks to our Pirate Council member for standing up to speak to our class this morning! 🦸🏼 Our class — and our whole school — is excited for the upcoming Turner’s Heroes fundraiser. Can’t wait to be part of this great cause! ❤️🏴‍☠️ #TurnersHeroes #OnceAPirate #AlwaysAPirate

Today we took our learning “around the world!” 🌍✏️ Our table groups competed to see who could name the MOST nonfiction text features without repeating any. So much energy, teamwork, and learning packed into one quick game! How many can YOU name?!

Today we celebrate the heart of Pickett’s Mill – our amazing Pirate custodial staff! 🏴‍☠️❤️ Thank you for keeping our school shining every day. Happy National Custodian Day! Not pictured: the HARD WORKING custodians who are always busy bees! 🐝 🙌🏻

We had so much fun celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a special read aloud of The Three Tamales 🌮📚—a creative twist on The Three Little Pigs! Thank you to Mrs. Hawkins for sharing this wonderful story with us virtually! 💛 #HispanicHeritageMonth

Congrats to our Depew Orthodontics The Leader in Me 🏴‍☠️ Leader of the Week!!! #AnchoredinLeadership 🏴‍☠️☠️🦜⚓️🌴

Pirate picture 📸 the feeling of seeing your work in the hall as a student🥰 this writing is WONDERful! Pickett's Mill ES 🏴‍☠️⚓️☠️🦜

Congrats to our Thursday OrthoZone 🏴‍☠️ Student of the Day!!! #AnchoredinLeadership 🏴‍☠️☠️🦜⚓️

Fantastic Chick-fil-A, Inc. lunch from Chick-Fil-A Acworth w our Depew Orthodontics Leader of the Week to wrap up her week of recognition!!! 🏴‍☠️🦜⚓️☠️ #AnchoredinLeadership #BestJobinCobb

Our 4th grade pirates 🏴‍☠️ are showing off their hard work just in time for parent-teacher conferences — from morphology flipbooks to persuasive essays and animal adaptation projects. 📝📚💪

Congrats to our Chick-fil-A, Inc. “Impossible Shot” winners from this past week! #AnchoredinLeadership 🏴‍☠️⚓️🦜

Enjoying the crisp fall air and a good story! 🍂 We spent a portion of the morning in our Pickett's Mill ES 🏴‍☠️⚓️☠️🦜 courtyard reading today’s chapter of Poppy by Avi — the perfect book for a perfect fall day. Will Poppy, the deer mouse, make it safely to New House?! 🧐📚🧡

Today’s classroom turned into a theater! 🎬 Our next text set is focused on DRAMA. 🎭 We began with “The Ant and the Grasshopper” — and thanks to our new Clear Touch microphones, it sounded like Broadway! 🎤🐜🍃

Great time tonight hanging out w our 🏴‍☠️ staff at PMES Night Allatoona High watching a lot our former 🏴‍☠️s!!! Sorry we didn’t catch everyone in the pic!! #OnceAPirateAlwaysAPirate 🏴‍☠️🦜⚓️☠️

Huge shoutout to Mrs. Smith, our amazing STEM teacher! 🦉 Today our homeroom dissected owl pellets — connecting science standards, our Wonders reading unit, and our read aloud, Poppy! Learning is truly an adventure in her class! 🔬📚💫