Sign-up Meeting

March 16

Next year’s Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors:

3:45 p.m.

Next year's Freshmen (current 8th graders):

4:30 p.m. 

Penn Staff Dining Room (Enter through Door D)

Tryouts:

March 30, 31 and April 1

Next year’s Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors:

3:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Next year’s Freshmen (current 8th ​graders):

4:30 p.m.- 6:30 p.m.

Penn Main Arena (upstairs balcony)​

The first day for students of the 2020-2021 school year is Wednesday, August 19, 2020 and the last day for students is Wednesday, June 2, 2021.

Other important district wide dates include:

• September 7, 2020: Recess Day – Labor Day
• October 23 & 26, 2020: Fall Recess Days
• November 3, 2020: Recess Day – General Election
• November 25-27, 2020: Thanksgiving Recess Days
• December 21-Jan. 1, 2021: Winter Break
• January 18, 2021: Recess Day – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• February 15, 2021: Recess Day – Presidents’ Day
• April 2, 2021: Recess Day
• April 5-9, 2021: Spring Break
• May 31, 2021: Recess Day – Memorial Day

*Please note that Penn’s School Calendar of important dates (like the dates for Commencement, Prom, Snowball Dance, etc.) will not be available until late May/early June.

Click here for a one-page pdf copy of the 2020-2021 school year calendar.

For the 2019-2020 school year and activity calendar, please click here.

Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15 for the FIRST Robotics St. Joseph District Event. Penn High School is once again hosting more than 40 high school FRC robotics teams from Indiana and Michigan who will battle it out for the title. Join more than 5,000 students, coaches, mentors, parents and fans during this one-of-a-kind two-day FREE event!

Saturday, March 14 

10 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Next Gen (K-8): 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Sunday, March 15 

9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Click to watch the video below to check out all the upcoming excitement, then come out to cheer on Penn Robotics Team 135!

Make sure to also bring your young Robotics fans to "Next Gen," an area for students ages K-8, who can get hands-on engaging fun with some of Team 135’s other robots. Next Gen will be open Saturday from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. This event is also FREE ADMISSION!

Talent Show auditions are scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 8 and Thursday, Jan. 9 starting at 3:30 p.m. Come early so you can fill out your forms. Students do not need to attend both nights.

Talent Show rehearsals will be Monday, Jan. 13, and Tuesday, Jan. 14, starting at 3:30 p.m. If students have other activities they are participating in, we will try to get them in first on these dates so they may go after they've performed and rehearsed on stage.

Talent Show Dress Rehearsal will be Wednesday, Jan 15, starting at 3:30 p.m. We ask that all students be present through the entirety of the rehearsal.

The Talent Show is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 16, at 7:00 p.m. Performers are expected to arrive at 6 p.m.

Tickets for the Talent Show are $5. Tickets for the show will be available at https://www.ticketracker.com/store/events/1529.

Mr. Coffee is still looking for a few good students to serve as emcees and producer/stage management. Please contact him at mcoffee@phm.k12.in.us if interested or if you have any questions.

Penn's chapter of Champions Together held its first Winter Wonderland on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. Families of younger students really enjoyed it and our Penn students enjoyed spreading some holiday joy!

Check out  all the fun in the photo gallery below!

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 Penn Wrestling Team defeated South Bend Clay, 81-0, on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2019.

A Photo Gallery by Penn student Brayden McMillen is posted below.

The Penn High School Boys Basketball Team won its Northern Indiana Conference opener, defeating South Bend Clay, 72-59, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019.

A Photo Gallery is posted below.

Finals for 1^st Semester 2019 start next week, the week of December 16. See the full schedule below.

We thought it would be helpful for a member of our faculty to share some study tips with students in advance. Penn’s Early College Math Teacher Miss Angela Yarrell​ has some advice for students. Watch the video below …

‘Tis the season for the “Sounds of the Season!” Get in the holiday spirit by attending any one of the four holiday concerts put on by Penn High School’s Fine Arts & Communications Academy.

Penn Kingsmen Choir’​s annual “Sounds of the Season” holiday concert performed will be held Thursday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m., Friday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, December 7 at 3:00 p.m. 

The doors will open one hour before the show start time. Advanced tickets are only $6. Click here to purchase tickets online.

Rounding out the holiday season is the Penn High School Orchestra’s performance of “’Tis the Season.” This one night only performance will take place on Thursday, December 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Advanced tickets are also $6. Click here to purchase tickets online.

All performances will be in the CPA; please use Door C.

This is a wonderful way to get into the holiday spirit while supporting the hard working and talented Fine Arts students.

Penn Robotics Team 135 is planning on spreading a little holiday cheer this year!

They’re calling on Penn and P-H-M students, families, staff, and members of the public to drop off toy donations. They are requesting electronic toys that have lights, make sounds, or have movements when a button is pressed. New toys in original packaging are preferred.  The team will then take these toys and “adapt” them as part of the Team’s Adapt-a-Thon event on Sat., Dec. 14 for children with disabilities. The team’s goal is to collect 300 electronic toys that can be made compatible with a sensitive button that people with disabilities can activate.

Toys can be dropped off at Penn High School, inside Door A, during school hours of 8:00-3:30 (avoiding bus drop-off and pickup times are highly recommended). There will be a collection box inside Door A. Members of the public can gain admittance through the security at Door A to drop of the toys.

Penn Robotics will also set up bins outside of the CPA and the Main Arena so that students, families and patrons attending events at Penn High School Dec. 2-13 can drop toys off then as well.

Toys will be accepted at Penn through Friday, December 13.

On Saturday, Dec. 14, Penn Robotics students will be working to adapt the toys in an event that is free and open to the public:

Adapt-a-Thon

Saturday, Dec. 14

11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Beacon Health System’s Pfeil Innovation Center​,  420 N Niles Ave., South Bend

*Toy donations will also be accepted at this event.

*Families of children with disabilities are welcome and encouraged to attend the Adapt-a-Thon event. Those who have toys at home who’d like them to be adapted are welcome and encouraged to bring them. Those families who do not, can receive one free adapted toy per child. Supplies will be limited.

Thank you to Beacon Healthcare for sponsoring the event and providing the location.

For more details, please click here to visit Team 135’s website.