Category: Academics

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Inspired by book, schools raise $2,700 for South Sudan water project

      Students, staff and parents at three Penn Manor elementary schools raised nearly $2,700 to support efforts to bring water to South Sudan after students were inspired by the book “A Long Walk to Water.”     The book is about an 11-year-old “Lost Boy” displaced by the Sudanese civil war who must walk through southern…

• 417 members of Class of 2019 earn diplomas

  Members of the Penn Manor Class of 2019 received their diplomas Tuesday night before family and friends during an upbeat graduation ceremony at Franklin & Marshall College. In his address to the crowd, principal Dr. Phil Gale celebrated the many accomplishments of the 417 graduates, including state and national recognition in academics, technology, agriculture, the…

• Class of 2019 receives more than 200 local scholarships, awards

  Penn Manor High School seniors got a boost to their post-high school plans when members of the Class of 2019 received 203 scholarships and awards totaling more than $110,000 during the Senior Awards Ceremony, held May 23. The honors included $70,000 in scholarships awarded to 65 seniors through Penn Manor Education Foundation. Many thanks to the Penn Manor community…