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Kindergarten registration begins Monday, February 5
Registration for kindergarten students for the 2024-2025 school year opens Monday, February 5. A child is eligible for our half-day kindergarten program if he/she will be 5 years old on or before September 1, 2024. To begin the registration process, visit our enrollment page. To ease the transition to kindergarten, all Penn Manor elementary schools…
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Penn Manor students qualify for state competition in 15 TSA events
Penn Manor middle and high school students qualified for state competition in 15 different events at a recent Technology Student Association conference, where our students placed first in five events. In all, 25 Penn Manor students competed in the Pennsylvania TSA Region 2 Conference, held January 27 at Conestoga Valley High School. About 350 TSA…
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Penn Manor receives $3,000 TangerKids grant
Many thanks to Tanger Outlets for donating $3,000 to Penn Manor through its TangerKids grant program. The money will be used to fund “Practice the Pause: Reset Your Mind,” a project to create “calming spaces” in each Penn Manor school where students can go to de-escalate when they are upset or frustrated. The grant is…
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CareerLink partnership helps PMHS students earn IT credits, certifications
Thanks to a new partnership with Pennsylvania CareerLink of Lancaster County, Penn Manor students are completing an Information Technology course that will earn them college credit and an IT certification — tuition-free. Ava Ritchie, Aman Shaik, Ethan Lama and Nathan Lama have enrolled in the Foundations in Information Technology course offered by Harrisburg University of…
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Nominees sought for 2024 Outstanding Employee and Educator awards
If you know of a teacher or other staff member who goes out of his or her way to help students and support our schools, please consider nominating them for an Outstanding Educator/Employee Award. The school district will present the 2023-2024 awards for Outstanding Elementary Educator, Outstanding Secondary Educator and Outstanding Employee later this year.…
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School will be in session March 27
Due to the cancellation of school on Tuesday, January 16, school will now be in session on Wednesday, March 27, for all students. In the event of future closings, we will continue to use weather make-up days in March and April.
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STEM careers highlighted for 9th-graders during JA’s STEM Summit
Professionals from a variety of STEM fields converged at Penn Manor High School this week to give students hands-on experiences with science, technology, engineering, math and the trades during the 2024 STEM Summit. Ninth-graders rotated through eight different stations, where they worked in groups to build bridges out of spaghetti strands, complete electrical circuits, create…
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PM Education Foundation awards $38,000 in grants to teachers
Penn Manor Education Foundation has awarded more than $38,000 worth of Venture Grants to district teachers to support innovative teaching during its fall 2023 funding cycle. The grants are funding such projects as the Cardboard Regatta STEM challenge, visits to local colleges, artists in residence, cellos and musical instrument repair supplies, field trips, chicken incubators,…
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Penn Manor adds Unified Bocce to its athletic programs
Penn Manor is providing a new opportunity for its special education students to participate in interscholastic sports. A Unified Bocce program has been added for the winter athletic season to complement the spring Unified Track & Field program that has been available since 2018. Teams of eight students – four special education students and four…
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Central Manor third-grader co-writes book about building confidence
When second-graders gathered in the academic commons at Hambright Elementary recently for a reading from a local author, they heard from someone barely older than them. It was Carter Mealy, a Central Manor third-grader, reading from the book, Like a Champion: A Story About Building Confidence. The book is about a young athlete, Champion, who…
