Together We Build Strong Minds
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...
The AOY Art Center, a Pennsbury Partner, will host the fourth annual gallery show of adjudicated Pennsbury student work on two weekends in early 2020. As in past years, this showcase of up-and-coming talent will be juried by members of the AOY Art Center and prizes will be awarded. First … 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...
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...
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.
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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...
Afton Elementary teacher, Rachael Hauben, shares that all of the first graders at this Pennsbury school had the pleasure of meeting with Dr. Brittany Leigh, a microbiologist from Vanderbilt University, through the “Skype a Scientist” organization. Dr. Leigh shared details about the type of science that she studies, which focuses … 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 College Board has announced that Pennsbury School District has earned a position on the 9th 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 Program … Read more...
A grant-funded, pre-school program for three- and four-year-old children is continuing this year in the Pennsbury School District thanks to a joint effort between Pennsbury and the Morrisville YMCA. Known as the Pre‑K Counts Program, these classroom sessions are being offered on a full-day basis, five days each week, … Read more...
For the 21st consecutive year, the Pennsbury Partners Program celebrated a Non-Profit Partner of the Year and a Business Partner of the Year.
Ordinarily, the Partners Program hosts a festive, spring celebration to pay tribute to the Partners of the Year, with 150+ community partners, local elected officials, and staff … 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...
With the passage of the 2019–2020 School District final budget on June 20th, the Pennsbury Board of School Directors approved the re-instatement of a fifth “special” to the elementary schedule. Supplementing the current specials that include physical education, music, art, and library will be the introduction of a new weekly … 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...