Author: Ann Langtry

PHS teacher, Jessica Perfetto, was accept­ed as one of 32 Ambassadors in the Pennsylvania STEM Ambassador Program, which aims to shape the future of STEM edu­ca­tion in the Commonwealth by tar­get­ing vital pol­i­cy con­ver­sa­tions with leg­isla­tive lead­er­ship in the areas of STEM Learning ecosys­tems, com­put­er sci­ence, state and fed­er­al … Read more...

The Pennsbury Education Foundation (PEF) recent­ly accept­ed a dona­tion total­ing $15,000 from Waste Management PA (WMPA), a Pennsbury Partner. The dona­tion was made through the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program and was pre­sent­ed to the PEF Board of Directors by Judy Archibald, Director of Public … Read more...

Thanks to a gen­er­ous endow­ment fund estab­lished in 2007 by Pennsbury ’64 alum­nus, Arthur J. Lendo, Ph.D., 12 stu­dents at Pennsbury High School were select­ed to receive Lendo Fellowship awards to help sup­port their aca­d­e­m­ic and co-curricular pur­suits. The 2019–2020 school year marked the endow­ment fund’s 13th anniver­sary. The … Read more...

Paleontologists, Mike and Roberta Straka, vis­it­ed with sec­ond graders at Afton and Quarry Hill ele­men­tary schools as a tie-in with the Pennsbury sci­ence cur­ricu­lum. “The stu­dents learned a lot from the pre­sen­ters,” shared Afton teacher, Rhea Jones. “They were very orga­nized and engag­ing. There was a lot of oppor­tu­ni­ty … Read more...

On June 10^th, what would have been the day of Pennsbury’s annu­al Commencement cer­e­mo­ny, the PHS com­mu­ni­ty cel­e­brat­ed the Senior Class of 2020 in a vari­ety of carefully-planned ways. In the morn­ing, more than 100 PHS fac­ul­ty and staff mem­bers vol­un­teered to hand-deliver spe­cial gift bags to the … Read more...

In October, Pennsbury High School assis­tant prin­ci­pals, Patti Steckroat and Cherrissa Gibson, pre­sent­ed at the 25th annu­al National Character.org Conference in Washington, D.C.  The pair led a break­out ses­sion titled, Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Building Character and Leadership to Promote Positive School Culture.

Ms. Gibson and Ms. Steckroat led a team … Read more...

Character.org, a nation­al advo­cate and leader for char­ac­ter devel­op­ment in our schools and com­mu­ni­ties, has named the Pennsbury School District a 2020 National District of Character and Afton, Edgewood, Fallsington, Oxford Valley, and Quarry Hill ele­men­tary schools and Pennwood and William Penn mid­dle schools as 2020 National Schools of Character. … Read more...

Pennsbury High School Assistant Principal, Justine McEachern, who also serves as Supervisor of School Counseling K‑12, was joined by PHS post-secondary coun­selor, Brooke Stoudt, to co-host two live, vir­tu­al Q&A ses­sions for the Class of 2021 and their parents/guardians. “We dis­cussed how the chal­lenges of COVID-19… Read more...

Pennsbury Technology Director, Brad McCormick, and Educational Technology Specialist, Mandy Lutz, achieved the des­ig­na­tion  of  “Google for Education Certified Trainer,” a dis­tinc­tion that has been reached by few­er than 2,000 peo­ple in the world. This pres­ti­gious des­ig­na­tion rec­og­nizes Ms. Lutz and Mr. McCormick as two of the top … Read more...

Pennsbury is one of six school dis­tricts in Bucks and Montgomery coun­ties that each received a $35,000 PAsmart tar­get­ed grant to enhance com­put­er sci­ence class­es and staff devel­op­ment. Jessica Perfetto, Applied Engineering & Technology Education Curriculum Coordinator for Pennsbury, applied for the grant on behalf of the School District. “This … Read more...

The “Best Prom in America” just got even bet­ter, thanks to spe­cial recog­ni­tion by the Guinness World Records team!

After care­ful­ly doc­u­ment­ing the process that led to the cre­ation of the largest mur­al of kiss­es, or lip prints, Pennsbury High School admin­is­tra­tors were noti­fied by the Guinness World Records team … Read more...

Thanks to Colin Rooney, a Pennsbury alum­nus and store man­ag­er of the Starbucks of Oxford Oaks in Lower Makefield Township (by Kohl’s), Pennsbury stu­dent work is proud­ly on dis­play there through­out the hol­i­day season.

The art­work was cre­at­ed by stu­dents enrolled in the MOST pro­gram. MOST, which stands … Read more...

     The Pennsbury High School Speech & Debate team earned sig­nif­i­cant recog­ni­tion from the National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) this fall based upon the stu­dents’ over­all per­for­mance dur­ing the last school year. According to the NSDA, stu­dents earn points and degrees in the hon­or soci­ety … Read more...

Approximately 800 8th graders from across all three mid­dle schools in the Pennsbury School District kicked off Engineers Week with sev­er­al high-profile VIPs on a Zoom call.

“It was our spe­cial hon­or to part­ner with Senator Bob Casey, Jr. Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, Boeing CEO David Calhoun, Ms. Mae Krier (Levittown’s … Read more...

Kudos to the entire Charles Boehm Middle School com­mu­ni­ty for recent re-certification as a National School of Character by Character.org. Boehm was the first of all of the Pennsbury schools to achieve this dis­tinc­tion five years ago, and it con­tin­ues to lead the way with this re-certified status.

“It … Read more...