Author: Jennifer Neill

At the 53rd annu­al Bucks County Playhouse Student Theatre Festival, Pennsbury Drama stu­dents per­formed a por­tion of their spring dra­ma pro­duc­tion, which was pre­sent­ed vir­tu­al­ly to local audi­ences. “This year, the entire the­atre fes­ti­val was held vir­tu­al­ly, but live via Zoom,” said Drama Director and vocal music teacher, Matt South… Read more...

Instrumental music fac­ul­ty mem­bers found a way to hon­or the Pennsbury Class of 2020 with a spe­cial vir­tu­al per­for­mance of the Pennsbury Alma Mater. Each teacher played a dif­fer­ent instru­men­tal part of the com­po­si­tion, with some tap­ing them­selves play­ing more than one musi­cal instru­ment. The final, com­pos­ite edit was cre­at­ed … Read more...

Pennsbury is one of 250 school dis­tricts in the U.S. and Canada being hon­ored by the College Board with place­ment on the 10th Annual AP^® District Honor Roll!  To be includ­ed on the Honor Roll, Pennsbury had to increase the num­ber of stu­dents par­tic­i­pat­ing in AP (since 2017) while … Read more...

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hol­i­day on Jan. 18^th was the 26th anniver­sary of the nation­al Day of Service that cel­e­brates the civ­il rights lead­er’s life and lega­cy. On this school hol­i­day, all ten Pennsbury School District ele­men­tary schools marked the fourth annu­al col­lab­o­ra­tive Day of Service. Fifth … 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 Education Foundation (PEF) recent­ly award­ed eight grants to schools across the Pennsbury School District, total­ing over $12,000. The PEF is a 501©3 orga­ni­za­tion that relies on dona­tions and sup­ports the pur­pose of improv­ing teach­ing and learn­ing in Pennsbury through inno­v­a­tive edu­ca­tion­al ini­tia­tives. Grants are award­ed through … 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...

Pennsbury is cel­e­brat­ing the accom­plish­ments of nine District schools, as each was rec­og­nized recent­ly by the Pennsylvania Positive Behavior Support Network (PaPBS). According to Regina Rausch, Director of Special Education, the schools are among the 2020 recip­i­ents of recog­ni­tion for high fideli­ty imple­men­ta­tion of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports … 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...

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...

The Pennsbury High School Environmental Science Club, led by fac­ul­ty advi­sor, Kristen Realdine, was rec­og­nized recent­ly by the Lower Makefield Township Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) and the township’s Board of Supervisors for the club’s impres­sive work on reduc­ing envi­ron­men­tal waste and advanc­ing the instal­la­tion of water refill … Read more...

The Artists of Yardley (AOY) Art Center, a Pennsbury Partner, host­ed the third annu­al gallery show of adju­di­cat­ed Pennsbury stu­dent work on two week­ends in January, 2019. As in past years, this show­case of up-and-coming tal­ent was juried by mem­bers of AOY after the stu­dents curat­ed their own … 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...