🌟 Get ready to celebrate Red Ribbon Week at PJHS! 🌟 Join us next week for a series of fun theme days dedicated to promoting a drug-free lifestyle! 🎉
6 days ago, Mrs. Mayhall
Red Ribbon Week
Blood drive open to the public. Come help us save lives and earn scholarship money for our seniors!
6 days ago, Good Deeds Group
Blood drive flyer
PHS Student Council continues to strive to find ways to make a difference in our school and our community! To recognize the hard work of our staff members, we, along with local businesses, will be sponsoring a "Staff of the Month" Winners will receive a gift card or other incentives from local businesses!
6 days ago, Kristie Hardimon
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Senior football, band, and football cheer parents need to meet at the concession area by 6:05 PM

**We will announce football, cheer, and then band.
7 days ago, Mr. Cothern-Athletic Director
Football Senior Night Info 2025
Hey Panther Nation! Come show your support this Friday as the Panthers take on Carlinville for SENIOR NIGHT. Come early and enjoy the tailgate, grilled to perfection by the famous 12th Man Crew.
8 days ago, Amanda Skinner
Senior Night Tailgate
Congratulations to Kadence Rochkes for placing 6th at the South Central Conference Cross Country Meet on Monday. Kadence ran her fastest time for the 2025 season. She is pictured along with the ten award winners.
9 days ago, Amanda Skinner
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PJHS Parents - Picture Day will be this Thursday, October 23rd. You can place your order on mylifetouch.com using your Picture ID: EVTCT2SXC.

9 days ago, Mrs. Mayhall
Picture Day

📗PJHS students and families! Today, PJHS students received a copy of The Frindle Files "Choice Board." This choice board provides a list of activities to complete while reading this week! Any activities completed should be turned in to the student's homeroom teacher by Friday, October 24 to be entered to win a prize. We are encouraging students and their families to work together to complete any of the activities! Therefore, the prizes that will be awarded are something the entire family can enjoy together! 🏆

Keep reading and start creating!

Together, we can build a reading community! 📗🧡💙🐾

10 days ago, Mrs. Cothern
The Frindle Files Choice Board
🏺📜 PJHS 6th graders have been hard at work bringing history to life! 🎉 They crafted their very own name in clay tablets using Cuneiform as part of Mesopotamia unit. 🏺✨
10 days ago, Sara Williams
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Pana Jr High Outdoor Resource class finished up the fishing unit with a little fishing at the Pana Lagoon!
10 days ago, Mr. Miller
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🍂Mrs. Cross’s 4th graders explored the beauty of fall by collecting and tracing leaves, designing 3D prints, and crafting fall poems inspired by their senses!🍂
10 days ago, Laura Hubbartt
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📗The Frindle Files by Andrew Clements is the "One Book, One School" selection at PJHS! All students and staff members at PJHS received their own copy of the book, to keep, to begin this community reading event! PJHS students and staff are encouraged to begin following the weekly reading schedule that was handed out.

The purpose of One Book, One School is for students and their families and friends to find time to read TOGETHER - in the car, after dinner, before bed, etc. In the coming weeks, we have some amazing activites planned for students and families to work together and enjoy time together.

Thank you to the Pana Education Foundation for supporting this program through generous donations of purchasing books, program materials, and prizes!🏆

Together we can build a reading community! 📗🧡💙🐾

13 days ago, Mrs. Cothern
The Frindle File books
Section 19 Land Use Selection 10/8 - Students evaluated and scored 4 soil pits to determine if they were suitable for agriculture and homesite use. There were some tough pits and we had a lot of new team members this year. Waylan Pauley placed 3rd overall individual in our Section, Varsity team placed 5th and JV team placed 1st! Congratulations to our team members! Varsiry Team: 5th Place Waylan Pauley- 3rd Individual Kaylee Kuhn - 22nd Individual Kinsey Perry Lane Warren Conner Beyers Lowell Witt Truman Strawn JV Team: 1st Place Greyson Bauman - 3rd Individual Karlee Hooper - 4th Individual Kaylin Compton - 5th Individual
13 days ago, Casey Ruppert
Section Land Use Selection 2025
Waylan Pauley 3rd Place Varsity Individual
Practice Pit Evaluation
Conner Beyers determining slope
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Caden Perry Section 19 Treasurer monitoring groups at the pits for the day
Congrats Waylan!

Financial Aid/FAFSA night for seniors and their parents/guardians will be Tuesday, October 21st at 5:30. If you have questions about filling out the FAFSA and paying for college a Lake Land representative along with Mrs. Livingston, the high school counselor, will be available!

13 days ago, Andrea Livingston
Financial Aid night
The PJHS Art Department today explored art & technology with Apple IPads plus Apple pencils. The students are enjoying something new to them! Junior high art students are drawing on the Procreate app. Today's lesson involved with symmetry & balance. Yay for art & technology!
13 days ago, Megan Henkel
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The PHS Yearbook Store is live! Reserve your student's yearbook at the link below ASAP, as extras won't be ordered this year. If you have a senior you'd like to honor, you can place an order for a half or full Senior Page at the School Store, as well (just scroll down the page a bit and click "Senior Ad"). Our publisher, Walsworth, sends a reminder email each month about yearbook purchases. To opt out of those emails, simply open the email and click "unsubscribe" and you will stop receiving them. If you prefer, you can order your yearbook by bringing cash for a check for $65 made out to Pana High School Yearbook. The FINAL day to order yearbooks is April 10, 2026.

Link to the PHS Yearbook Store: https://tinyurl.com/Panorama2026
13 days ago, Timothy Dail
A huge thank you to Mrs. Keeling and her talented junior high students for the incredible new toys they made on the 3D printers! Your creativity and hard work are truly appreciated, and Mrs. Simpson’s preschool classes are so excited to play with these wonderful new additions. We’re all so grateful for your kindness and generosity.
Keep up the amazing work!
14 days ago, Bekah Simpson
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🌟 PJHS givin' a BIG SHOUT OUT to our amazing principal, Mrs. Mayhall! 🎉 Her dedication and hard work do not go unnoticed! Thank you for everything you do for PJHS! 💖HAPPY NATIONAL BOSS DAY! ✨🎉
14 days ago, Sara Williams
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🌟PJHS Parents🌟 Please take some time to read through our October newsletter. It is packed with updates, helpful resources, and exciting upcoming events! 🗓️

14 days ago, Mrs. Mayhall
🖋️All PJHS students and teachers received a "Frindle." Classes worked together to brainstorm where the name "Frindle" came from, why some have black ink and others have blue ink, and even made up their own stories with "Frindle" being a character! Students will soon learn why "Frindle" is so important for the One Book, One School program. 📗
14 days ago, Mrs. Cothern
Students and teachers received "frindle" pens.