Category: Community

• Penn Manor Ed Foundation awards $40,000 in teacher grants

  

    Many thanks to the Penn Manor Education Foundation, which has awarded more than $40,000 in teacher Venture Grants to enhance learning in multiple subjects at all grade levels in Penn Manor School District.    The grants range from $345 for flexible classroom seating for sixth-graders at Central Manor Elementary School to $7,085 for a…

• School board members honored for years of service to Penn Manor

  

  Congratulations to longtime Penn Manor school board member Dr. Richard Frerichs, who was honored by the school district and the Pennsylvania School Boards Association for his 24 years of service during his final school board meeting on November 15. Also honored during the meeting were school board members Chris Straub for 12 years of service…

• District statement on Nov. 10 court ruling on mask order

  

  The Commonwealth Court on Wednesday, November 10, released its decision on a challenge to the Pennsylvania Department of Health Mask Order that took effect September 7. The decision can be viewed here. The court ruled that the mask order is void because it was not adopted in compliance with the regulatory review process. Therefore, the…

• Penn Manor to present ‘Clue’ Nov. 19 & 20 in HS auditorium

  

  Penn Manor Productions will present its fall play, Clue, at 7:30 p.m. November 19 and 20 in the high school auditorium. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner party where murder and blackmail are on the menu. When their host turns up dead, they all become…

• Manor FFA poultry team places among top 10 in nation

  

  Congratulations to the Manor FFA Poultry Evaluation Team, which placed in the top 10 nationally at the recent FFA National Convention.  The team of Lizzy Strickler, Jenna Smith, Carly Railing and Molly Gehr — all Penn Manor sophomores — earned a gold ranking and placed ninth out of 37 teams in the National Poultry Evaluation…

• 11 students qualify for County, District Chorus festivals

  

  Congratulations to the eleven students who have qualified to represent Penn Manor High School in the upcoming County and District Chorus festivals. Nine students — Nicole Chen, Ella Layton, Elizabeth Lebo, Grace Fafel, Paige Wall, Emily Witmer, Kaleb Kabakjian, Matthew Perkins and Max Ponton  —  have qualified for the Pennsylvania Music Educators District 7 Chorus…

• Jesselin Lopez and Charlie Gonzalez earn homecoming crowns

  

  Congratulations to Jesselin Lopez and Charlie Gonzalez, who were named Homecoming Queen and – for the first time at Penn Manor High School – King at halftime of Penn Manor’s homecoming football game October 22. Congrats, also, to the entire homecoming court, which raised more than $5,000 and collected numerous supplies for the Loft Community…

• Penn Manor middle and elementary schools earn U.S. News honors

  

  Five Penn Manor schools have been ranked among the top 10 public schools in Lancaster County and among the top 25 percent of public schools in Pennsylvania by U.S. News and World Reports. Manor Middle School was ranked No. 3, and Marticville Middle was ranked No. 7 of the 22 public middle schools in Lancaster…

• 20 Penn Manor students participate in ‘Construction Wars’

  

      Twenty Penn Manor middle schoolers learned about the construction trades directly from professionals in the field by attending “Construction Wars,” a career exploration event held October 5 through 7 at the Keystone Center for Construction Careers in Manheim.     Eleven student from Manor Middle and nine from Marticville Middle took part,  building wooden benches,…

• Penn Manor staff contribute $19,000 to PMEF

  

  Penn Manor employees are providing a $19,000 boost to the Penn Manor Education Foundation. A total of 245 staff members gave one-time donations or signed up for an automatic payroll deduction in support of PMEF, which provides teacher grants, student scholarships and financial assistance to struggling Penn Manor families. Donations came from every school, the…