Category: Community

• PM’s 1:1 program earns national honor

  Penn Manor School District has been named a “District of Distinction” by a national magazine for its open source 1:1 Student Laptop Program. The school district is one of 30 honored this month by District Administration magazine under a program that recognizes school districts that implement innovative ideas that yield measurable benefits. At Penn Manor, every student in…

• 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…

• Hambright staff get a piece of the school’s past

  

  When Tracy Stevens drove past the site of the former Hambright Elementary School recently, she felt sad. The school that she and her children had attended was being demolished to make way for a senior care center. So Tracy had an idea – why not see if she could salvage some bricks from the old school…

• 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…

• PM students to perform in music festivals

  More than two dozen Penn Manor high school and middle school students will be performing over the next month in music festivals in Lancaster County. Sixteen students will perform in the Lancaster-Lebanon Music Educators’ County Band Festival concert Jan. 23 at Conestoga Valley High School. Eleven Penn Manor students will participate in the LLME County Orchestra Festival…

• HS implements calling system for absences

  

  Beginning Wednesday, January 6, Penn Manor High School will be using an automated calling system to alert parents/guardians of students who are absent from school. The calling process will begin at approximately 9:30 a.m. each morning.  The purpose of the call is to notify parents/guardians that their student is not in school on a particular day.…

• PM community steps up to help the needy

  

  The holidays will be a bit more special for more than 170 families in need, thanks to the generosity of the Penn Manor community. Toys, gifts, personal supplies, clothing and food are being distributed this week by the Penn Manor Family Fund at Millersville Brethren in Christ Church to 125 families experiencing economic difficulties. Also…

• Eight named to District Band, Chorus, Orchestra

  

  Eight talented students will represent Penn Manor High School when they participate in the upcoming District 7 Orchestra, Chorus and Band Festivals. The students qualified by scoring well in an audition process that involved more than 900 students from Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York counties. Penn Manor will be represented in…

• 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…

• Sale of Hambright nets $1.5 million for district

  

  Penn Manor School District this week completed the sale of the former Hambright Elementary School to Signature Senior Living LLC for approximately $1.5 million. The sale marks the end of the school’s 80-year existence, said superintendent Mike Leichliter. “While many students and teachers have fond memories of the old building, the school district is pleased that…