PES hosted its first STEM Day yesterday afternoon for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders! Congratulations to our winners: Paper Airplanes: For the farthest and straightest flight! Golden Noodle Award: For constructing the tallest freestanding tower with spaghetti, tape, string, and a top marshmallow! Bolt Robot Relay Winners: Mrs. Maxedon, Ms. Bratcher, Mrs. Reiss. Well done, future innovators!
Pana Education Foundation is excited to bring you this year's LICENSE PLATE fundraiser! Forms are now open to submit your license plate choices for the fundraiser in which plates are displayed from October 1 - November 30, 2025. The form will remain open until Friday, July 25th so get those customized plates while you can! Forms can be accessed at the following link: bit.ly/pefplate25
🌟 Exciting news for all PJHS parents! Our STEM Camp is just around the corner! 🧪🔬 Are your kids ready to dive into a world of science, technology, engineering, and math? This is a fantastic opportunity for them to explore, experiment, and innovate! 🚀
Mrs. Mathis' 4th graders were given a Hot Wheels challenge today! They had a set amount of time to construct a track for their Hot Wheels car that would produce the greatest distance from the track. Students worked hard and created great tracks! The winning team's car traveled 17ft, 5in after leaving their track!
🎉 Join us for Curriculum Night at PJHS! 🎓✨ Come see the amazing projects our students have been working on throughout the year. 🖼️
Mrs. Schutt's 6th grade gardening group had a fantastic time at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis on Monday. This group has worked worked together all year to maintain our PJHS garden. 🌸🪴
📣 Reminder for all parents! This Friday, we have an early dismissal at 2:38pm! 🕐 Make sure to adjust your schedules accordingly. 👇
PES 4th and 5th grade students have been having tons of fun in the library with author Jeff Kinney and his well-loved series, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid." 📚Students have previewed the book series, created new book covers, and are comparing and contrasting events from the book to the movie!
🏅✨ 🏅 PJHS students are going for the gold in the Academic Olympiad! Each grade will face off in mystery activities over the next few days. Who will triumph? 🏆💪
🐦📚 ✨ After starting their Pigeon Book adaptations back in December with storyboards, PJHS 6th graders now crafting their final published copies! Can't wait for everyone to read these creative stories showcased at the Curriculum Fair, May 22nd @ 5:30-7:00pm! 🎉💖
Upcoming early out days at Pana Elementary School:
Wednesday, May 21st is a 45 minute early out
Friday, May 23rd is a 45 minute early out
Wednesday, May 28th is a 45 minute early out
Thursday, May 29th (last day) is a Half Day
Curious about what our students have been up to? 🤔 Join us for Curriculum Night at PJHS! 🏫✨
Pana High School will dismiss at 2:36 this Friday, May 23rd, in anticipation of Memorial Day weekend.
Come help us Celebrate our Retiring Teachers, Tonight in the Pana High School Commons!
This event is open to the public.
Please join us in honoring our dedicated educators:
Anita Thompson
Deeanna Stalets
Kim Hahnenkamp
Ellen Anselm
📍 Location: Pana High School Commons
📅 Date: Monday, May 19, 2025
⏰ Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Let's come together to celebrate their remarkable contributions and wish them the best in retirement!
PHS Craft students created moving vehicles through various materials and art supplies. This group had a lot of fun creating the vehicles of motion. Some groups even helped one another. All had fun for the last few weeks of class. #staycreative🖍️ #art🎨 #panthers🐾
Mr Bowker, Mr Lipe and Mr McKinney's classes had the chance to hit the links🏌🏻♂️⛳️ Great day of golfing.
Graduation seating reminder: Family of graduates who possess a ticket will enter the E2 doors located next to the visitor parking lot on the East side of the high school starting at 6:00pm. General admission will begin at 6:15pm through the main doors near the circle drive.
Mrs. Schafer and Mrs. Keeling teamed up and created a key events sequencing activity for the book Findle. Students had to put the events in order to drive the robots without running into a road block. We were impressed and proud of how hard this class worked, they even had some fun!
Yesterday the Pana Bass fishing team competed at Sangchris Lake . Both teams did great with the team of Aaron Moss and Huntley Virden advancing to the sectional championship on Springfield Lake next week for a chance to compete in the State tournament.
Monday 5/12, Mrs Ruppert's Animal Science class toured Borgic Farms in Nokomis that is housed on 9 acres. Borgics produced 450,000 pigs per year, has 16,000 sows total between 2 sites. They breed 60-80 head per day and ship their weaned pigs off to 56 different finishing sites. Students experienced the wash-in, wash-out biosecurity for the farm to practice health management for all pigs on site. They learned more about breeding techniques, body scoring for bred animals, gestation and farrowing care, along with Borgics overall business and feeding management of all sites. They had the opportunity to watch some piglets be born, Noah was brave enough to help pull one even! They definitely enjoyed holding the piglets at the end.
