The 2018-19 District Activities Calendar will be mailed around August 9 and 10 to all P-H-M families. 

It lists key school and district events throughout the year. 

To get a jump start on your planning and to know all your schools’ important Back-to-School dates, click here to download a pdf copy.

Want a quick one pager of the 2018-19 School Year or want to import P-H-M’s Google Calendar to yours? Click here for more calendar and scheduling resources.

There was plenty of action going on for Week 6 of P-H-M’s Summer of Excellence. This week students were busy at Visual Arts Academy, Junior STEM Academy and Penn Wrestling Camp! Check out the photo gallery below from this week’s activities (July 23 – 27).

To download high resolution jpg files from the photo gallery below, just simply click the “DOWNLOAD” button on the bottom right-hand corner of the photo while viewing it in the Photo Gallery function. We are happy to provide this service to you free of charge.

There was plenty of action going on Week 5 of P-H-M Summer Camps with the Junior Academies of STEM, Visual Arts and Kingsmen Volleyball Camp. Check out the photo gallery below from this week’s activities (July 16 – 20). There is still time for your child to get in on the fun with Kingsmen Wrestling Camp taking place next week:​​
 

• July 23 – 26, 2018
  • Wrestling: K – 9th grade
     

*Registration for the Enrichment Academies, Super Kids Camp and Youth Theater camps are now closed. Click here to register for wrestling camp. 

To download high resolution jpg files from the photo gallery below, just simply click the “DOWNLOAD” button on the bottom right-hand corner of the photo while viewing it in the Photo Gallery function. We are happy to provide this service to you free of charge.

The summer heat did not stop the fun taking place during Week 4 of P-H-M Summer Camps! There was plenty of action going on this week with football and the Junior Academies of STEM, Foreign Language, Learn a Foreign Language and Visual Arts. Check out the photo gallery below from this week’s activities (July 9 – 13). There are still camps going on next week and the weeks after:

• July 16 – 19, 2018
  • Volleyball: K – 8th grade
     
• July 23 – 26, 2018
  • Wrestling: K – 9th grade
     

*Registration for the Enrichment Academies, Super Kids Camp and Youth Theater camps are now closed. Click here to register for the Kingsmen Athletic Camps that are still open. 

To download high resolution jpg files from the photo gallery below, just simply click the “DOWNLOAD” button on the bottom right-hand corner of the photo while viewing it in the Photo Gallery function. We are happy to provide this service to you free of charge.

Calling all teachers … Register today for TECHNOVATION 2018! 
 

This is a great learning opportunity open to ALL TEACHERS in the state, and not just P-H-M teachers.  As part of the  Indiana DOE Summer of eLearning Program, P-H-M is one of 51 school districts all across our state offering high quality professional development mini conferences. This is the fourth year that P-H-M has hosted TECHNOVATION at Penn High School. The the one day conference will be Tuesday, July 31. 

​What to Expect…

Technovation is a conference centered around innovative practices and the intentional placement of technology in the classroom. Technovation is open to anyone interested in integrating technology and education. It is an all-day event beginning at 7:30 a.m. and ending by 4:00 p.m.

Breakout Sessions…

This year we have sessions by educators from across the state as well as education partners showing off the latest developments with popular school technology. Some of this year’s sessions highlight STEM in the classroom, student engagement, the whole student, and hardware and software guides for Apple, Google, Canvas, Hapara, Edmentum and more. Participating session leaders come from many different districts and there are a wide variety of sessions with content for everyone! Click here to scroll through the list of sessions offered.

Keynote Speaker

Technovation will feature keynote leading educator and Google certified trainer Denis Sheeran. Denis Sheeran is an engaging, fun, highly requested nationwide speaker, who delivers keynotes, full­ day workshops, and small ­group professional development courses to teachers and administrators. He is a Google Certified Educator and has a master’s degree in educational leadership and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics education with a minor in music. Before becoming the Director of Student Achievement for the Weehawken Township School District in Weehawken, NJ, Denis taught high school math, from Algebra to Advanced Placement, for thirteen years at Lake Forest High School in Lake Forest, Illinois and supervised the mathematics programs in Sparta, Edison, and Chatham NJ. Denis is also the author of the book "Instant Relevance".

*Lunch will be provided and there are opportunities to win door prizes!

►Find out more at the Technovation 2018 eLearning conference website

►Click here for Online Registration 

Technovation 2018 sponsors:

Please see a photo gallery below from Technovation 2017 to see how engaging and hands-on the sessions are.

More than 250 people participated in today’s (Monday, July 2) an active shooter training drill held at Penn High School. Personnel from multiple local emergency, first responder and police agencies, along with Penn High School and Penn-Harris-Madison administration and staff were all involved in today’s valuable community exercise. Participants in today’s drill either partook as active participants in their emergency responder role, actors, observers or evaluators.

P-H-M’s Director of Safety and Student Services Mike Seger worked with Sgt. Bryan Fox, Training Coordinator with Mishawaka Police Department, and several other St. Joseph County agencies for nearly a year planning today’s safety exercise. Other participating agencies included: St. Joseph County Police, Mishawaka Fire Department, Penn Township Fire Department, Clay Fire Department, St. Joseph County Emergency Management, Memorial Hospital, Elkhart General Hospital, St. Joseph Medical System, St. Joseph County 911 Center, South Bend Fire Department and Honeywell Security Group. Representatives from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Indiana Department of Education Office of School Building Physical Security & Safety were also on hand to observe today’s drill.

“Today’s drill was important for P-H-M because it gets our community first responders working together for the benefit of our school and all other schools in the community,” said P-H-M’s Director of Safety and Security Mike Seger.

“Anytime you get the opportunity to have this many disciplines, this many organizations do a real life exercise in the environments that they may have to work in some day, it’s a benefit,” said St. Joseph County Police Assistant Chief Bill Thompson. “Today was a worthwhile venture because we were able to get some many people involved, test a lot of our systems, to see not only what we do well, but the things we can improve on. Any time you get a chance to do that, it improves our capacity to respond and it makes our community safer.”

The scenario for today’s training exercise was an after school hours event at Penn High School: a student/staff dodgeball game taking place in Penn’s Main Arena. Actors were on the gym floor and in the stands simulating crowd patrons, as well as staff actors stationed at the event door entrance. A St. Joseph County police officer playing the role of the active shooter entered the building using noise bombs and blanks. The drill included simulation of multiple victim casualties. This allowed for law enforcement personnel to practice their tactics of finding and neutralizing the shooter within the building. By having actor victims, this gave local Fire Departments’ Rescue Task Forces and First Responders the opportunity to practice arrival on the scene to access, triage and transport victims. St. Joseph County’s 911 Center involvement in today’s drill allowed the dispatch systems to be tested. Today’s exercise also involved the extra step of transporting the actor shooting victims to Memorial Hospital and Elkhart General Hospitals; St. Joseph Medical center used paper patients. Including the hospitals in today’s drill was key affording our local hospitals the chance to test their internal emergency and surgical staff and systems.

“The overall goal was to test the system to identify the intra agency communication breakdowns in order to overcome and correct what we can to make the system better together,” said Cmdr. Bryan Fox, Uniform Devision.

The exercise was an evaluation and was conducted in a no- fault atmosphere.  A debrief was held immediately following; however, a more detailed report and findings will be provided to participating agencies at a later date.

The summer is heating up with more great learning and fun as the P-H-M summer camps keep going strong! There are still activities going on for children to take part in for that extra push both physically and academically.

Click here to see our full list of Summer 2018 camps and activities still available. 

Check out our latest camp photos in the photo gallery below. The week of June 25 we visited Penn Softball Camp and Half-Day Boys Basketball Camp. To download high-resolution jpg files from the photo gallery below, just simply click the “DOWNLOAD” button on the bottom right-hand corner of the photo while viewing it in the Photo Gallery function. We are happy to provide this service to you free of charge.

The second week of camps is going strong! These camps were in full swing for this week: Baseball, Girls Basketball, Dance & Flag, Camp Invention and Super Kids Camp. There is still time to sign up for some remaining summer camps and activities. Click here to see our full list of Summer 2018 camps and activities that are still available. 

We believe that summer break can be fun while also giving students the academic boost they need as well as exercise and skill development.

Check out the photos from our second week (June 18-21) of camps! To download high-resolution jpg files from the photo gallery below, just simply click the “DOWNLOAD” button on the bottom right-hand corner of the photo while viewing it in the Photo Gallery function. We are happy to provide this service to you free of charge.

Your child’s education and sport opportunities do not have to end, and should not, when school lets out for the summer. Research shows students may lose two or more months’ worth of reading achievement, a month or more of spelling and learning skills and about 2.6 months’ worth of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation skills during their summer break.

That’s why P-H-M offers summer enrichment learning opportunities and sports camps.  Click here to see our full list of Summer 2018 camps and activities that are still available. We believe that summer break can be fun while also giving students the academic boost they need as well as exercise and skill development.

Check out the photos from our first week (June 11-15) of academies and camps! To download high resolution jpg files from the photo gallery below, just simply click the “DOWNLOAD” button on the bottom right-hand corner of the photo while viewing it in the Photo Gallery function. We are happy to provide this service to you free of charge.

Summer School 2018

Session 1:  June 11 – June 29

                 
Elementary sites:

Walt Disney and Meadow's Edge, 7:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (Monday – Friday)

Middle School site:

Schmucker, 8:30 a.m.  – 12:30 p.m. (Monday – Friday)

Penn High School

Session 1:  June 11 – June 29, 8:40 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. (Monday – Friday)

Session 2: July 9 – July 27, 8:40 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. (Monday – Friday)

Click for more information on Penn High School Summer School.