Pocantico Students Harvest School Garden for Annual Soup Day

Third- and fourth-graders harvested carrots, squash, beans, herbs and other vegetables on Oct. 20 for Pocantico Hills School’s annual Harvest Soup Day. In addition to picking vegetables, the students also […] Read more »

Fundraising Walk to Support Mental Health Programs at Pocantico Hills

The Pocantico Hills School Foundation held its Swan Lake Walk in the Rockefeller State Park Preserve Oct. 8. The foundation is raising money this year for mental health programs at […] Read more »

Pocantico Students Start the New School Year with School Supplies and Ice Cream

Pocantico Hills School students and teachers kicked off the school year on Sept. 9, welcoming children in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Students arrived with bags full of supplies for the […] Read more »

Pocantico’s Tennis Court Project Progresses on Schedule

Construction of the new tennis and pickleball courts at Pocantico Hills School progressed on schedule this summer, and they are expected to be ready for use this fall. Court paving […] Read more »

Pocantico Teachers Earn Prestigious Educational Technology Certification

For Pocantico Hills School teachers Katell McNamara and Marina Lombardo, the opportunity came at a perfect time. As educators were planning last summer how a socially distanced, more technology-reliant 2020-21 […] Read more »

Pocantico Center Summer Performance Series Set to Launch on June 9

The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced its summer performance series, to be held in-person at Pocantico in accordance with New York State health guidelines. The series marks […] Read more »

Camp Poco Returns for Its 65th Year This Summer

Pocantico Hills Day Camp returns for its 65th anniversary summer, with old favorites like the Bubble Bus and Harlem Wizards and new activities like corn hole and Halloween Day in […] Read more »

New Exhibit at Rockefeller State Park Preserve Art Gallery 

Rockefeller Park Preserve’s gallery is presenting “Spacial Impressions”, a photography exhibition featuring work by five photographers.   Michael Garber, a nature, landscape, and portrait photographer, Bobbi Lane, an award-winning still life, people, and […] Read more »

Pocantico Hills Students Mount Annie JR. the Zoomsical 

The March 19 performance of . took place in the Pocantico Hills School auditorium, but instead of on stage, cast members were spaced around the edges of the empty audience seats. Each […] Read more »

Guardians of the Grounds

The Rockefeller State Park Preserve has never been more popular, its wide-open spaces offering fresh air and freedom during Covid’s constrictions.  But the preserve, with over 60 miles of carriage roads to […] Read more »