Category: Academics

• PM Ed Foundation awards $46,000 in grants

  Manor Middle School teacher Chris Telesco wanted to take several male students on field trips as part of a program called Fusion that matches boys from broken homes with teacher mentors for after-school activities. But the cost of bus transportation and admission fees was prohibitive. Enter the Penn Manor Education Foundation, which awarded Telesco a…

• PM students earn Scholastic Writing Awards

  Congratulations to the 13 Penn Manor students who won awards for outstanding writing in the 2015-2016 Lancaster County Scholastic Writing Awards competition, sponsored by Lancaster Public Library. Penn Manor students won 14 Scholastic Awards, including three Gold Keys, the top honor, and six Silver Keys. Four Penn Manor students also earned writing awards in the Newspaper…

• PM students earn multiple TSA awards

  Forty-two Penn Manor high school and middle school students won multiple awards at the recent Pennsylvania Region 2 Technology Student Association competition at Conestoga Valley Middle School. Vying against hundreds of students from 16 neighboring school districts, TSA students from Manor and Marticville middle schools and Penn Manor High School competed in a variety of…

• Penn Manor HS student published in Teen Ink

  

  Congratulations to Penn Manor High School sophomore Katherina Vanatta, whose poem was recently published in the national magazine, Teen Ink. “Can You Hear Me?” was selected from among hundreds of submissions to appear in the January 2016 issue, which focuses on teens and health. This is the fifth time Katherina’s writing has appeared on the…

• 23 Penn Manor students earn FFA awards

  

  Manor FFA member Katey Bleacher was named winner of the Keystone Star in Agricultural Placement at the recent Pennsylvania Farm Show. The statewide honor is one of several awards earned by 23 Penn Manor High School students during the event. Katey and 13 other Manor FFA members also received their Keystone Degrees, and nine first-year members…

• Manor FFA members earn agronomy awards

  

  Members of the Manor FFA chapter at Penn Manor High School earned awards recently in the National FFA Agronomy Career Development Event, held during the National FFA Convention & Expo in Louisville, Ky. The team, led by adviser Neil Fellenbaum, was awarded a Bronze emblem. In addition, individual members competed against 140 other participants for…

• District explains options on upgrading/replacing HS

  

  Nearly 90 people turned out for the first public information meeting on the future of Penn Manor High School, held Thursday night in the high school auditorium. District residents and staff members heard about the four options Penn Manor School Board is considering to upgrade and/or renovate the school, which was originally built in the late…

• Future of high school is topic of Oct. 22 meeting

  

  You are invited to participate in an important meeting on the future of Penn Manor High School. On Thursday, Oct. 22, the district will hold the first of several public presentations on renovating or replacing the school. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Built in the 1950s and partially renovated beginning in…

• Documentary on Penn Manor 1:1 program debuts

  

  A film about Penn Manor’s innovative 1:1 Student Laptop Program debuted Tuesday before a crowd of 3,000 people attending a global open source conference in Boston. Click here to see why Penn Manor’s 1:1 program has attracted such international acclaim! The documentary, created by Red Hat Films, includes interviews of students, teachers and staff about…

• Marsh named assistant principal at Penn Manor HS

  

  Kim Marsh, a counselor at Penn Manor High School, has been named assistant high school principal, effective July 1. Marsh is a familiar face at the high school, where she has worked five years as a learning-support teacher and six years as a counselor. In her new position, she replaces assistant principal Eric Howe, who…