Elm Road Updates

At the October 9th P-H-M Board of School Trustees' meeting, the Board approved a donation by Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Thacker to the P-H-M Education Foundation naming rights campaign. P-H-M Superintendent Dr. Thacker and his wife have generously donated $10,000 to have the basketball court in Penn High School’s Main Arena named after Hall of Fame and Penn’s legendary coach, Al Rhodes, renaming the court “Al Rhodes Kingsmen Court” who retired at the end of last school year. Over the course of 17 years, Dr. and Mrs. Thacker have donated $202,500 to the Education Foundation! This is the second time the Thacker's have given to the naming rights campaign. In 2021, they donated $25,000 to have the Kingsmen Athletic Center renamed the Chris Geesman Kingsmen Athletic Center after Penn’s legendary football championship coach.

Per PHMEF’s naming rights fundraising initiative, 80 percent goes into the Foundation’s endowment, which is used to fund teacher and classroom grants. The remaining 20 percent directly funds professional development for P-H-M teachers.

If you have not yet signed up for a time to meet with your child's teacher for parent teacher conferences next week, please do so asap!

Click here to see the conference links for each grade level.

There will be a parent survey available in the lobby on your way in and out of the conferences. Please take 5 minutes to give us your feedback, and to let us know if you need a Chromebook should we have Elearning days.

Conferences are followed by Fall Break. We will not have school on October 20th or October 23rd.

October 2023

• October 18th Giveback Night-Chipotle

It is time for Saint Joseph Health System to administer our Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). As a reminder the CHNA is a survey where our community (which means YOU) shares with us some information about your health, your family’s health and the health of our community. The results will guide us in creating 3 year implementation strategies to impact identified health needs in our service area. Last time the survey showed us that Mental Health was the number 1 priority along with access to wellness resources/nutrition & eating habits with physical exercise rounding out our top 3.

We are always welcoming in volunteers! We have to have background checks on file. Additionally, volunteers must watch this anti bullying video before volunteering.

Website: https://elmroad.phmschools.org/
Phone: 574-25-3743