Author: Brian Wallace

• Penn Manor schools begin the 2019-2020 academic year

  

  Penn Manor welcomed more than 5,300 students back to its schools Tuesday, Aug. 21, for the start of the 2019-2020 school year. Students returned to the classrooms a bit earlier than usual and will end the year earlier — May 29, 2019, is the last day — to accommodate the $99.9 million construction and renovation…

• Penn Manor hosts 2019-2020 Opening Day for staff

  

  Penn Manor welcomed back more than 500 staff members for Opening Day activities at Penn Manor High School Monday, formally marking the start of the 2019-2020 school year. Students begin their academic year on Wednesday, August 21. Teachers and staff enjoyed a hot breakfast before superintendent Dr. Mike Leichliter and school board president Ken Long…

• Millersville Police Dept. donates bikes for Penn Manor students

  An effort to supply bicycles to Penn Manor students in need got a major boost when the Millersville Police Department agreed to donate more than a dozen bikes to the program. That brings the total of donated bikes to more than 40, thanks to the generosity of the police department, community members and local businesses.…

• Girls’ volleyball team earns third straight national academic honor

  For the third year in a row, the Penn Manor girls’ volleyball team has been named to the Academic All-American Honor Roll by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. The 2018 team qualified by earning a cumulative grade-point average of 3.68, which ranks among the top 25 of girls’ high school teams in the United States.…

• Penn Manor welcomes 18 new professional staff for ’19-20

  Penn Manor welcomed 13 new teachers for the 2019-2020 school year during New Teacher Orientation, held Aug. 6 and 7 at Manor Middle School. In all, 18 new teachers and other professional staff members have been hired for the coming year. The new hires, pending school board approval, include: Penn Manor High SchoolAlexis Carson, art teacher;…

• High School project creates unique learning opportunities for students

  For Penn Manor High School students and staff, the massive construction project that began this past year at the school brought parking restrictions, relocated classrooms and the constant din of heavy equipment just outside classrooms and offices. But it also provided opportunities for students to learn about real-world math, engineering and design applications, study the…

• Coding Camp a big hit with elementary students

  Nearly 200 elementary students got to try out their computer coding skills this summer during Penn Manor’s first Coding Camp, offered free to all students. Camp sessions ran from June 17 to July 11 at Eshleman and Pequea elementary schools. Working individually and in groups, students in grades 1 through 6 explored the Scratch visual programming language and created theme-based…

• Penn Manor community steps up to donate bikes for students in need

  More than a dozen Penn Manor students will be able to get to summer jobs, run errands and attend ESL classes, thanks to the generosity of community members who donated bicycles to families in need. The effort began when Wendy Letavic, English Language Development coordinator for the school district, encouraged students to attend a free,…

• Manor FFA members earn honors in state competition

  Several Manor FFA teams and individuals were named state champions and earned other honors at the State FFA Activities Week, held June 11-13 at Penn State University. The Dairy Cattle Evaluation team was crowned state champions and will compete at the National FFA Convention and Expo Oct. 30-Nov. 2 in Indianapolis. Members include Colt Barley,…

• Penn Manor Quiz Bowl team places in top 50 nationally

     The Penn Manor Quiz Bowl Team recently placed in the top 50 in the nation in the High School National Championship Quiz Bowl Tournament.    The event featured 336 teams from across the country and was held May 24-27 in Atlanta.    The Penn Manor team went 6-4 in preliminary matches to make the…