Pentwater Public Schools

Children need healthy meals to learn. Pentwater Public Schools offers healthy meals every school day. Please take a moment to review the attached frequently asked questions document regarding food service and income eligibility guidelines for the upcoming 2020/2021 school year. You will receive a paper application in the mail in August but you can get a head start and do an online application today. Please visit our website at www.pentwaterschools.net and look under Food Service/LunchApp and apply or you may download the 2020/2021 Food Service Application from the website and return it to the school for processing. We encourage all to apply; in fact, if your family does qualify, the district may benefit from the increase in percentage of qualified students. Some of our revenue is based on the percentage of free and reduced students in our district. If you are eligible, we would like to report the actual percentage; the information is always confidential but your student can carry their own lunches if they prefer and still help the district.

The MDE Office of Special Education is excited to share information with you regarding a webinar series opportunity, "Strategies for Supporting Your Child's Learning At Home". This is a 3-part webinar series about planning for your child's transition back to school and learning what you can do to support learning in your home

Good Morning Pentwater Family! Please see the attached photos detailing our Return to School plan for the Fall. If you would like to view the PDF version to review the document and to be able to access the links, please click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BfAkoslhvUX2oajcMaaRS4_Pi2u_2x27/view?usp=sharing

Facing Eviction? TrueNorth Community Services has resources to help!

Please click the link below to view the slideshow created by Shelly Hugo for the graduating class of 2020. Thanks Shelly and congratulations graduates! https://youtu.be/OmjiRcDx4Pg

Reminder that the Class of 2020 graduation ceremony will take place at the Village Green on Thursday, 7/9/2020, at 7pm. A friendly reminder to bring a lawn chair as well as a face mask to attend the ceremony. If you cannot make it to the Village Green but would like to view the ceremony, you can livestream through the village webcam, go to www.pentwatervillage.org

Love, Inc of Oceana County is partnering with Pentwater Baptist Church to distribute activity kits for kids for Pentwater students. Distribution will take place every Thursday beginning July 16 for four weeks. Distribution times will be from 10am - 11:30am at the Baptist Church in Pentwater. These are fun activity kits along with encouragement cards and numbers for CMH and Love, Inc. in the event they need to talk with someone and process everything that is happening in our communities during this pandemic!

Conditioning for cross country started last night! It felt so great to be doing some team activities again. We had a great run at the Hart trail! Anyone is welcome to join. Contact Coach Fatura at (231) 852-0183 with any questions or for a schedule and information regarding the guidelines we need to follow.

Our graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020 will take place on Thursday, July 9, 2020, at 7pm in the Village Green park in downtown Pentwater. We ask that those in attendance bring lawn chairs or blankets to sit on as well as face masks/coverings to protect all in attendance. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be moved to the school gymnasium, however, admission will be limited to two (2) guests per graduate. We are looking into live streaming possibilities (with a possible fee) to allow those who are unable to attend in person to witness this joyous occasion! If we are forced to have the ceremony in the school building, it will still be at 7pm. We are hoping that it will be a gorgeous day so that we can celebrate in the Village Green!

ATTENTION: Below is the link to the State of Michigan "Meet Up & Eat Up" map for summer food program sites. https://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/schoolnutrition/

Have a safe and happy 4th of July!

Good afternoon, Please read the attached letter from our WSESD Regional Superintendents' Association regarding the 2020/2021 school year. Thank you!

Good morning, If your student/s still have textbooks or other classroom items that need to be returned, you may drop off in our front foyer from 8am-4pm Monday-Friday. There is a drop box in our foyer for books to be returned; if they cannot fit, please stack on the top of the box. PLEASE NOTE: Do not leave chromebooks in the foyer, make sure there is someone in the building to check the computer in. You may call the office if you have any questions at 869-4100 ex. 210. Thank you and have a great summer!

Our staff spent the morning saying goodbye to students for the school year; have a wonderful and safe summer and HAPPY READING!

If your 5th-12th grade student has a school-owned instrument, please return it to the school on Thursday (6/4/20) between 10am and 11:30am. Ms. H will be eternally grateful! If you are unable to drop-off your instrument, please email Ms. H at hhunsberger @ pentwater . k12 . mi . us

Meet Theo!

Dear Families and Friends, Next week on Thursday, June 4, 2020, we will be collecting all Chromebooks and text/library books at the back of the school building where the buses load/drop off students. We will be collecting from 10am - 11:30am. Please enter the drive from the East Hanover Street entrance and drive up to the back door to drop off any items you may need to return to the school. You will then be able to drive by the front of the school building (parade style) for you and your students to wave and say goodbye to teachers and wish each other a great summer break! We thank all of you for your cooperation, patience and continued support throughout this mandated school closure period. I will do my best to keep all of you informed throughout the summer with fall school plans! Thank you again and have a safe and happy summer! Dr. Scott Karaptian

Any 6th-12th grade Student Artists who still had sketchbooks or art in classroom cubbies, in a display or Art Show can pick up their work Tuesday during packet pickup at the bus barn! Excluded is work in the State show, library, or the WSCC Show.

NHS graduates with honors!

Emme Tarnowski, daughter of Sarah Tarnowski and Nate Tarnowski, is our final Pentwater 2020 graduate that we are honoring today! Emme plans on attending West Shore Community College to earn an Associates degree in welding and a possible Associates degree in Mechatronics with a future career goal of entering fabrication or building construction. Emme, follow your dreams, we are incredibly proud of you! Congratulations to all of our Pentwater 2020 graduates!