Category: Pennsbury School District

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...

Thanks to the ded­i­ca­tion of numer­ous staff mem­bers and the enthu­si­asm of Pennsbury’s mid­dle school “Best Buddies,” a total of 15 stu­dents in the District’s Autistic Support Program had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to see a Broadway pro­duc­tion of Aladdin. The show was a spe­cial Autism‐friendly per­for­mance pro­duced by the Theatre Development … Read more...

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 College Board has announced that Pennsbury School District has earned a posi­tion on the 9^th annu­al AP District Honor Roll! Pennsbury is among only 373 school dis­tricts in North America to receive this hon­or.

“I am proud of our stu­dents, teach­ers, and admin­is­tra­tors in build­ing our AP… Read more...

Congratulations to all ten Pennsbury ele­men­tary schools! As a group, they earned a 2018 Promising Practices Award from Character.org for con­duct­ing the inau­gur­al Pennsbury Day of Service activ­i­ty on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This was one of just 258 Promising Practices awards grant­ed by Character.org nation­wide to schools, … Read more...

Instrumental music teacher, Michael McGarry, reports that string stu­dents from all three Pennsbury mid­dle schools attend­ed a per­for­mance by a quar­tet of musi­cians from the Philadelphia Orchestra.  “Students lis­tened to pieces from the clas­si­cal reper­toire by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven in the newly‐refurbished Pennwood audi­to­ri­um,” said Mr. McGarry.  Performers … 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...