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• Penn Manor students to perform holiday concerts

  

  Penn Manor students will be performing in holiday concerts at district schools and other venues in the coming weeks. These events are open to family members and the community. Here’s the schedule:

• All Penn Manor elementary, middle schools earn ‘Best Schools’ designation

  

  All Penn Manor elementary and middle schools have earned a “Best Schools” designation from U.S. News & World Reports in the magazine’s latest school rankings, released November 14. Our schools earned the honors for placing among the top 40 percent of all schools in Pennsylvania, based on academic measures. Conestoga Elementary was ranked 146th of…

• High school gym to be named in honor of Coach Frey Dec. 6

  

  Penn Manor’s high school gymnasium will be named in honor of Harry Frey, a former longtime Penn Manor teacher and distinguished coach, in a ceremony on December 6. Coach Frey taught physical education for 41 years for Penn Manor and spent 30 years coaching the Comets’ mens’ and womens’ basketball, mens’ soccer and baseball teams.…

• FFA members receive gold and silver national awards

  

  Eight Manor FFA members earned gold and silver awards and five members earned American FFA Degrees at the National FFA Convention and Expo, held October 23 to 26 in Indianapolis. Agronomy Career Development EventThe agronomy team won a silver medal overall, and Ryan Brenneman won a gold. The other members, Nathaniel Frey, Weston Shertzer and…

• High school hosts Education Day/College and Career Expo

  

  Hundreds of Penn Manor High School students gave their college and career plans a jump start by attending the 32nd annual Education Day/College and Career Expo, held November 4 in the high school gym. More than 100 colleges, universities, trade schools, businesses and the military participated, providing information and brochures (plus some nifty swag) to…

• Ten PMHS students selected for District 7 Chorus

  

  Ten Penn Manor High School students have been selected to participate in the District 7 Chorus Festival in February, based on their performance during auditions held October 26. The auditions included students from 70 public and private schools spanning eight different counties – Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, and York.  The Penn Manor…

• Penn Manor juniors learn personal financial lessons during REAL Life

  

  “I’m $6,000 in debt!” and “I’m broke!” were just a few of the comments Penn Manor High School juniors made this week as they learned practical financial lessons through engaging exercises as part of the REAL Life financial literacy program, sponsored by Junior Achievement of South Central PA. All 11th graders participated in REAL Life…

• Middle school students learn about trades during ‘Construction Wars’

  

  Twenty Penn Manor middle schoolers learned about the construction industry directly from professionals in the field by attending “Construction Wars,” a career exploration event held October 15 through 17 at the Keystone Center for Construction Careers in Manheim. Ten students each from Manor and Marticville Middle Schools participated,  building wooden benches, testing electrical circuits, making…

• Gonzalez inspires PMHS students to be ‘all in’

  

  Penn Manor High School students were recently inspired to go “all in” during an assembly featuring Gian Paul Gonzalez, who is credited with helping the New York Giants secure their most recent Super Bowl title. Gonzalez told the students how he was an unknown Union City, N.J., social studies teacher when the Giants asked him…

• Revised district office hours announced

  

  Effective Monday, October 14, the Penn Manor District Office will be closed daily from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to provide a lunch break for our staff. The office will continue to be open from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed on holidays. We encourage visitors to call the district receptionist…