School spirit comes alive with this PTO sponsored event. The Jog-a-Thon raises funds for classroom enhancements and helps build community with our entire student body, faculty and parents. Older students participate in a 5K jog while younger students enjoy laps, popsicles, games and relay races.

Flag Salutes are a tradition at Pegasus. Held monthly in the quad, the entire student body, teachers and parents gather as one community to celebrate the Success Trait for the month, student and faculty achievements, and honors. Each Flag Salute is hosted by a designated grade level during which students perform for the Pegasus community.

Sponsored by the PTO, Grandparents’ / Special Friends’ Day is a December tradition enjoyed by students and their grandparents or special friends. Our guests are welcomed to our campus for a wonderful morning of classroom visits and activities with the children and a holiday concert.

November is a time for us to reflect on how fortunate we are and to be thankful. During our Harvest Ingathering students and their families collectively provide non perishables and other necessities to a local non-profit organization serving the hungry. Although many local businesses contribute to this non-profit, our school continues to be the largest single contributor to this organization.

Pegasus spirit soars during the PTO sponsored Spirit Week each spring. Each day is themed to represent the creativity, energy and passion of our students. Popular themes have included “crazy hair day”, “what I want to be when I grow up”, and 80’s. A special and eagerly awaited tradition is the student talent show. The week concludes with the Pegasus Olympics during which all students enjoy a variety of athletic events and inspirational presentation by a former Olympian.

Precious voices, melodic tunes and creative dances fill our theater each December and May as students perform on stage with joy and talent in abundance. Parents, grandparents, and friends pack the theater with anticipation and support of our young performers.

The middle school experience at Pegasus goes beyond just the classroom. In addition to their academic life, middle school students enjoy a wide variety of activities throughout the school year. A full time Activities Director plans and coordinates a multitude of activities including: community service opportunities, field trips, dances, and extracurricular events.

• Field Trips – Students take class field trips to local museums such as the Getty Villa, Bowers Museum and The Museum of Tolerance. These trips help students pursue their existing interests as well as discover new ones.
  

• Outdoor Education Trips - Middle School students often reflect that the week long trips are among the most memorable Pegasus experiences. These trips provide valuable, social and educational experiences. Sixth grade students go to Astro Camp in Idyllwild, seventh graders head to Catalina for CELP (Catalina Environmental Leadership Program), and eighth graders attend The Yosemite Institute.

• Community Service – The ideals of service learning are integrated into our academic curriculum. Service learning embodies experiential learning, moral and character development and community health. Students learn that they have a responsibility to make the world a better place and service learning empowers them to act. Students are required to fulfill 15 hours of community service during the school year. Many opportunities are through school including: gleaning the fields at Tanaka Farms, helping at the OC Food Bank, Save Our Beach cleanup project, and helping the elderly to name a few. At the end of the year, students write a reflection essay how this work has impacted their lives.

• Extracurricular Events - Middle schoolers enjoy spending time together outside of school. Off campus activities include: going bowling, ice skating, roller skating and playing games at Boomers. On campus, dances are also part of the fun. There are four dances each year. Past themes include: Totally 80’s, Luau, Denim Dance, Morp, Haunted House, and Hollywood. Students enjoy fun, friends, refreshments and great music under the supervision of faculty chaperones.