Category: News

• Old friend honors former Hambright principal

  Bob Stoner surprised an old friend Wednesday, when he presented him with two unusual gifts in honor of his long ties to the former Hambright Elementary School. Stoner gave Gerald Sheckart a brick from the original Hambright building, constructed in 1936, along with a framed photo of the school that appeared in Life magazine 80…

• Penn Manor students earn SkillsUSA awards

  Four Career & Technology Center students from Penn Manor were among the top finishers in the recent SkillsUSA District Competition. Lexie Hershey placed third in the restaurant service competition, and Breanne Swartzentruver placed third in crime scene investigation. Both students attend the Mount Joy campus of Lancaster County Career & Technology Center. Doug Ferguson placed second…

• 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…

• Marticville takes students on virtual reality field trips

  Marticville Middle School students got to experience the future of learning when they participated in the Google Expeditions Pioneer Program Feb. 19. The school served as a beta test site for Google Expeditions, a new product that enables teachers to take their classes on virtual field trips to discover Mars, the Roman ruins, the stratosphere,…

• 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 hosts PA Education Secretary

  Pennsylvania Education Secretary Pedro Rivera got a firsthand look at Penn Manor’s award-winning agricultural education program Thursday when he participated in the “Beyond the Blue Jacket” showcase at Penn Manor High School. Rivera and other state officials toured the school’s ag facilities, including the greenhouse and shop, as students led demonstrations on veterinary science, floriculture, agricultural…

• 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…

• 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…