Pentwater Public Schools

The first All Pro Dads event for the 2024/2025 school year is scheduled for Thursday, 10/31, at 7:10am for Donuts With Dad in the cafeteria!

The community is invited to the Pentwater bands (JH; HS; and Jazz Bands) Fall/Halloween Performance on Thursday, 10/24/24, at 7pm in the school gymnasium! The performers will be wearing their Halloween costumes; be prepared to have a "goulish" good time!

The Varsity Falcon Cross Country team competed in Shepherd at the Class D State Meet. It is a meet dedicated to preserving small school cross country programs. The meet is open to any school with a high school enrollment of 168 students or less. We had a small group, but everyone ran really well despite it being very warm today! Congratulations to Bailey Case who earned All-State honors for Class D by placing 19th in a time of 21:57.60. Places and times for today were…. -Wyatt Roberts 19:51.10 (55) -Tyler Zimmer 20:12.80 (58) -Ben Merten 22:31.40 (86) -Bailey Case 21:57.60 (19) -Lauren Davis 27:46.80 (59) -Abbie Field 32:12.40 (70) Only one week until our Regional meet! Go Falcons!

On Saturday, 10/26, Oceana LEADS, the District Health Dept. #10 and the MI State Police will be hosting a drive-thru DEA National Takeback event. The hours will be from 10am - 2pm at the Michigan State Police Post, 3793 W. Polk Rd, Hart. Bring your old/expired tablets, capsules, patches and other solid forms of prescription drugs; no liquids or sharps will be accepted.

The ASH Network (The Accessible Supportive Healing Network) invites you to their IHOP Spooktacular Event on Friday, 10/25, in Muskegon for a spooktacular evening with a percentage of all proceeds going to The ASH Network which supports assistance for individuals suffering from substance abuse.

A small group of 7th and 8th graders have the incredible opportunity to go to Camp Miniwanca for 4 days 3 nights for Michigan Middle School Leadership camp. The intention of the camp is to grow leadership within our middle school. They are coming up with a project that they can lead to make a difference in an area of need they identified within our school community. They got to camp shortly after 10 on Wednesday and we will be here until Saturday afternoon. The time has been jam-packed, including meeting kids from Ludington, Whitehall and Notre Dame Academy. We have also practiced our communication skills. Each school takes a turn setting the table for dinner and cleaning up. It has been amazing so far! Ms. Sisung

Esports wrapped up week 3 of competition today. Super Smash Brothers team of Bode Powell, Alden Grondsma and Rodney Grondsma fell to a very tough Rockford team on Tuesday. Fortnite team of Aiden Henry and Bryce Whalley fell in an intense match that had many ups and downs against Traverse City Central on Wednesday. Mario Kart wrapped up the competition for the week today with Jane Howard and Bailey Case bringing home the win against Pewamo-Westphalia, Corunna and Napoleon. A special thanks to Mr. Rodriguez this week for being the coach this week so Ms. Sisung could go to the middle school leadership camp.

The PTCO needs you! They will be meeting on Wednesday, 10/23, from 3-4pm in Room #110 in the elementary wing. We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to Senior Elijah Cook for being selected as the Pentwater Service Club Student of the Month for October 2024! Eli is the son of Elizabeth Panza and Nathan Cook. Eli and his parents are pictured with retired superintendent, Dr. Scott Karaptian. The Spanish/Art Club also shared a presentation on the many adventures enjoyed on their trip to Italy in April 2024!

It's Great Lakes Great Apple Crunch time at Pentwater Public Schools and we are joining early care centers, colleges, hospitals and other organizations across the Great Lakes Region states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio in the 8th annual Great Lakes Great Apple Crunch. Participants celebrate National Farm to School Month and local farmers by crunching into RENNHACK ORCHARD APPLES at 2:00pm local time on Thursday, 10/17. This collective crunch encourages healthy eating and supports farm to school and local food initiatives throughout the Great Lakes Region. Thank you for doing your part to get us to 1.2 MILLION Crunches!

Order your pies for the holiday season today; deadline for ordering is 11/8 with distribution date of Saturday, 11/23!

The Falcons were on FIRE for the WMD Championship meet tonight at MCE. Out of 13 total runners we had 8 personal records and 4 season bests! In addition, we had 5 athletes earn all-conference honors!! Amazing work! For the middle school team…. -Chi Jeruzal-1st team all-conference, 5th place, personal record time of 12:44. -Ben Jorissen-11th place, personal record time of 13:26 -Jordy Miller-17th place, struggled with a side stitch but did a great job finishing. -Colton Jorissen-21st place, personal record time of 18:19. -Lauren Macher-1st team all-conference, 5th place, personal record time of 14:19. -Karoline Slotegraaf-10th place, personal record time of 17:31. For the varsity team… -Wyatt Roberts-2nd team all-conference, 9th place, season best time of 18:55. -Tyler Zimmer-2nd team all-conference, 13th place, personal record time of 20:06. -Ben Merten-20th place, season best time of 20:59. -Bode Powell-21st place, season best time of 21:05. -Michael Smith-30th place, personal record time of 23:32. -Bailey Case-1st team all-conference, 7th place, personal record time of 21:55. -Lauren Davis-16th place, season best time of 25:59. The varsity team travels to Shepherd on Saturday to compete in the Class D State Meet. GO FALCONS!!!

Have any extra Legos left in your basement? Pentwater High School Peer to Peer class wants to take them off your hands! Students will be creating Lego art to show a visual representation of a peer to peer class project. If you'd like to donate Legos, please email Andrea Gallie (agallie@pentwater.k12.mi.us) or Maddy Holstad (mholstad@pentwater.k12.mi.us) or drop them off to the front office.

You are invited to a fang-tastic time at the 2024 WSAHA Halloween Skate: Friday, 11/1/24, from 5-7pm!

Super proud of Tyler Zimmer, Ben Roberson, Bailey Case and Coach Carrie VanDuinen for supporting the Pentwater Oktoberfest 5K this morning. They took 4 of the top 7 spots! Freshman Tyler Zimmer was the overall winner! Impressive work Falcons!!

Our PPS family thanks Cosmic Candy/Pentwater Popcorn for the staff gift certificates for free popcorn! We are incredibly blessed by the support that we receive from community members as well as the many local businesses that continually provide support throughout the year, we love our Pentwater Village! Thank you, downtown Pentwater!

The Pentwater Falcon Cross Country Team competed at the Manistee Chris Grabowski Memorial Invite today. Chris was an exceptional Manistee High School cross country and track athlete. His 1996 time of 16:53 still stands as one of the top finishes ever for a Manistee runner at Michigan International Speedway, site of the MHSAA cross country State Finals. His family honors his memory by continuing to support a legacy of Manistee runners. Bode Powell was our only athlete to earn a season best tonight with a time of 22:55.48! Earning medals were Wyatt Roberts, Bailey Case and Ayla Kokx. Top Finishers and Medalist: Wyatt Roberts 20:23.56 (40) Bailey Case 24:27.27 (32) Ayla Kokx 16:02.04 (29) A special thanks to a very generous donor who bought dinner for the team tonight! We are very grateful! The team is dealing with some injuries and illness, so we are going to enjoy a weekend off and a rest day tomorrow! Next up is the WMD Conference Championship in Custer on Wednesday! Go Falcons!

Haunted Mansion Fall Ball Semi-Formal sponsored by the Student Council!

4th Grade Artists, along with Mrs. Jeruzal, Mrs. Lubera and some brave parent volunteers, painted beautiful and spooky Autumn and Halloween scenes on windows in Downtown Pentwater today. Special thanks to community organizers, Barb Siok and Karen Hickman!

MDHHS is having a Trunk or Treat event on Thursday, 10/24!