Author: Brian Wallace

• Nominees sought for 2024 Outstanding Employee and Educator awards

  

  If you know of a teacher or other staff member who goes out of his or her way to help students and support our schools, please consider nominating them for an Outstanding Educator/Employee Award. The school district will present the 2023-2024 awards for Outstanding Elementary Educator, Outstanding Secondary Educator and Outstanding Employee later this year.…

• School will be in session March 27

  

  Due to the cancellation of school on Tuesday, January 16, school will now be in session on Wednesday, March 27, for all students. In the event of future closings, we will continue to use weather make-up days in March and April.   

• STEM careers highlighted for 9th-graders during JA’s STEM Summit

  

  Professionals from a variety of STEM fields converged at Penn Manor High School this week to give students hands-on experiences with science, technology, engineering, math and the trades during the 2024 STEM Summit. Ninth-graders rotated through eight different stations, where they worked in groups to build bridges out of spaghetti strands, complete electrical circuits, create…

• PM Education Foundation awards $38,000 in grants to teachers

  

  Penn Manor Education Foundation has awarded more than $38,000 worth of Venture Grants to district teachers to support innovative teaching during its fall 2023 funding cycle. The grants are funding such projects as the Cardboard Regatta STEM challenge, visits to local colleges, artists in residence, cellos and musical instrument repair supplies, field trips, chicken incubators,…

• Penn Manor adds Unified Bocce to its athletic programs

  

  Penn Manor is providing a new opportunity for its special education students to participate in interscholastic sports. A Unified Bocce program has been added for the winter athletic season to complement the spring Unified Track & Field program that has been available since 2018. Teams of eight students – four special education students and four…

• Central Manor third-grader co-writes book about building confidence

  

  When second-graders gathered in the academic commons at Hambright Elementary recently for a reading from a local author, they heard from someone barely older than them. It was Carter Mealy, a Central Manor third-grader, reading from the book, Like a Champion: A Story About Building Confidence. The book is about a young athlete, Champion, who…

• Six board members, including one new director, sworn in

  

  Six members of the Penn Manor Board of School Directors were sworn in December 11 to serve new terms of office. District Judge Keller administered the oath to returning board members Dr. Joe Fullerton, Dell Jackson, Anthony Lombardo and Donna Wert, along with a new member, Matthew Beakes. They all will serve four-year terms on…

• For second straight year, a Penn Manor student earns top anti-litter photography award

  

  For the second year in a row, a Penn Manor High School student has won the top prize in a statewide photography contest designed to raise awareness about litter. Jason Joniec, a Penn Manor senior, earned a first-place award in the student category of the 2023 Gene Capaldi Lens on Litter Photo Contest, sponsored by…

• Penn Manor hires HR director, approves principal changes

  

  The Penn Manor school board has approved the hiring of a new human resources director and appointed an interim dean of students at Hambright Elementary School. The new HR director is Courtney Kunes, who replaces Theresa Chiodi, who was with Penn Manor since March 2016.  Kunes is currently director of human resources and Title IX…

• Penn Manor students to perform holiday concerts

  

  Penn Manor students will be performing in holiday concerts at a variety of venues in the coming weeks. Here’s the schedule: