Good morning,

We are one week away from the start of the school year. We are excited to have the building full of students and staff. We will send out one additional high lites later this week with more information to start the school year.

Pennsylvania’s new School Vaccination Requirements took effect August, 2017. Students are required to comply with the PA immunization law or they willat risk to be excluded from school.

Grade 12 students are required to receive:

1 or 2 doses of Meningococcal Vaccine

• If your student received their first dose of Meningococcal Vaccine at 11 – 15 years of age, then a second dose is required at age 16 or entry into 12th grade.
• If your student received their first dose of Meningococcal Vaccine at 16 years of age or older, that shall count as the 12th grade dose.

If your senior has not received the required booster meningococcal vaccine, you would have received communications from the school nurse (or Mrs. Torrence). Your student is at risk of school exclusion if not received by 9/8/21.

4 Doses of Polio Vaccine

A 4th dose is not necessary if the 3rd dose was administered at age 4 years or older and at least 6 months after the previous dose.

You can contact Mrs. Torrence at atorrence@pvsd.org to submit the vaccination information or if you have any questions.

The 2021-22 Health and Safety Plan includes the following updates:

• when in our schools, all staff and students are required to wear masks indoors; (We recommend students carry an extra mask in their bag in case it breaks.)

• students are required to wear masks while riding on buses (in accordance with the CDC order);

• physical/social distancing of 3’ is recommended;

• while eating lunch, students in grades 1-6 will be situated 6’ apart to the greatest extent possible;

• masks remain optional when students are outdoors (for example, during physical education classes, recess, learning activities, etc.)

To learn more about PVSD's updated Health & Safety plan, along with other COVID information, please go to https://www.pvsd.org/covid-information/.

Parking permits have arrived. Distribution will begin Aug 23rd from 9am until 3 pm in the main office. Only those who have completed all paperwork and have paid all fees will be able to receive a permit at this time.

Students who are on the debt list (owe money for any reason) or have not completed all of the needed parking information will not be able to pick up their permit until their obligations have been satisfied.

The permit must be displayed on the passenger side front windshield and students must park in the assigned space beginning with the first day of school. Only students with valid permits are to park on campus. All other cars will be stickered and towed at the owner’s expense.

The final sittings for Senior Portraits will occur Sept 13-Sept 15th at the high school

To schedule a time for the sitting please go to ouryear.com and use code 36 to sign up for a time. If the dates are not currently appearing for this time frame, return to the website at a later time. They post the times several weeks prior to the sittings. If your senior misses these dates they will need to contact Prestige and make an appointment to get their portraits taken in their studio in Bensalem. The portraits from Prestige are used for the yearbook so do not miss out!

Chromebooks will be distributed to our rising 9th graders only at the Open House August 24th 5:30-pm-7pm in the auditorium. Students will be asked to return their current chromebook and charger. Prior to that time please go to 1to1.pvsd.org and accept the chromebook guidelines. Please make sure you bring the barcode with you as that is required to be issued a new chromebook.

Students who are not able to attend the open house that evening can swap chromebooks once school begins.

We are excited to welcome the Class of 2025 to the high school on August 24th from 8am until noon. This day commences in our competition gymnasium and will include team building activities, meetings with Link Crew leaders and tours of the building. We have been told that this day is invaluable to the incoming freshmen. Freshmen should bring a copy of their schedule with them.

The high school invites parents to accompany their student(s) to the high school to walk the building on August 24th, 5:30 - 7 pm. Bring your student's schedule and find their locker! See some of the clubs that are available for your student and stop by to meet the high school administrators and counselors!

Underclass pictures will take place Sept 8 and 9th during the student's English class. Grade 9 and 10 will get their pictures taken on Sept 8th and Grade 11 on Sept 9th.

Place your order before picture day on mylifetouch.com and use the picture day ID EVTHZZ8T3

Please remind your student to check the website to see if the courses they selected have summer work. Students should join the google classroom associated with the course.

Summer Assignments

Senior privilege begins September 21st. Seniors who have a period 1 or a period 10 study hall on their schedule can apply for senior privilege. Applications will be available in study hall. Students may not come in late or leave early until they receive their senior privilege pass from the main office.

The first day of school for both the North Montco Technical Career Center and PVHS is August 30th.

AM TECH STUDENT INFORMATION:

Each morning, beginning on August 30th, the students scheduled for AM Tech will need to report to the bus circle by the cafeteria by 7:45AM and board one of the busses to the tech school. Those students will then be brought back to the high school so that they can attend their period 4 or period 4/5 class. Due to the distance that our students must travel it is feasible that the students will not be back at PVHS for the start of period 4 and will be a couple of minutes late. We have attempted to schedule as many of the morning tech school students as possible into the 4th period lunch so that they do not miss class time but that is not always possible. Our teachers are aware of the time discrepancy with the tech school and will not make the students late if they are coming into a period 4/5 class rather than lunch.

PM TECH STUDENT INFORMATION:

Students who attend the tech school in the afternoon will report to the bus circle at 11:45am to board a bus to the tech school. The majority of PM tech students will be in lunch at that time, but there might be a handful who will need to leave their period 5/6 class at 11:45 early to board the bus. After tech ends, a bus will bring the students who drove to school back to the high school and will take those who did not drive directly home.

NMTCC Schedules

PVHS and NMTCC have similar schedules, however there are some differences that you need to be aware of. There are four days in which the tech school is scheduled to have school and PV is closed, one day in which PV has school and the tech school does not and 4 days where PV has a half day. Please see below for the specifics for each type of day. Additionally, if we have any 2 hour delays, we do not send our AM tech students to the tech school.

At this time, these are the days in which the PV schedule differs from the NMTCC:

PV is open but the Tech school is closed: February 18

PV is closed but the Tech school is open: Oct 11, Nov 22 and Nov 23 and Dec 23

PV half days: October 20, January 26, February 16 and March 9

Please see below for more detailed information regarding these days.

If you have questions about bussing, you can call STA at 610-489-9110.

(PVHS in, NMTCC out) February 18

PVHS is in session, but students will not report to NMTCC.

• Students are expected to attend PV.

• AM tech students who have a ride to school may arrive at PV at 10:30 AM and sign in at the main office. They will proceed to period 4 or 4/5.

• AM students who take a bus to school will report to the cafeteria for attendance at 7:50am and will remain in study hall until their period 4 or ⅘ class.

• PM tech students will be dismissed at noon from their period 6 class. Busses will be at the bus loop at noon to transport the PM tech students home after period 6.

(PVHS out, NMTCC in) Oct 11, Nov 22 and Nov 23 and Dec 23

Transportation is provided for both AM and PM technical students to attend their session at NMTCC. Since there is no school at PVHS a bus will pick up our NMTCC students at their respective bus stops. Please check with your tech bus driver to find out more information.

August 30 ( First day of school at NMTCC)

AM tech students: report to the bus circle no later than 7:45AM. Teachers will assist the students find their proper bus to the tech school. Students will arrive back at PVHS at approximately 10:35 AM and will go to their period 4 class.

PM tech students: Attend their scheduled classes here at PV in the morning. Those students who have a period 5/6 course are report to the bus circle at the conclusion of that course while those who have period 6 lunch are to report to the bus circle after eating their lunch, but no later than 11:52 AM, where busses will take the students to NMTCC.

(PV Half Days, No PM tech) October 20, January 26, February 16 and March 9

AM tech students will attend the tech school as they normally do. We will not have PM tech. Students may leave after period 6 if they have transportation, but must sign out in the main office. PM tech students who do not have transportation should attend study halls for periods 7-10.

2 hour delays:

We do not send our students to the tech school for the morning session. AM tech students may go to study hall until their first scheduled PV class or may come to school late, similar to the PV IN TECH OUT schedule.

For more information about the tech school please go to their website https://www.nmtcc.org/

The second payment for the Senior trip to Orlando of $304.25 is due on or before Friday, September 10th. Trip insurance information will be made available in early October. Please contact kgeorge@pvsd.org or rheist@pvsd.org with any questions or concerns.

This year the parent drop-off and pick up will occur in the student parking lot and in the faculty parking lot. Please drop off your student between 7:20-7:40 am.

Student Lot Drop Off

In order to avoid traffic delays, we are asking that you enter campus from Wartman Road and proceed towards Gravel Pike to the student parking lot. There will be no left hand turns from High School Drive into the parking lot.Turn right off of High School Drive to enter the lot and then immediately bear to the right to proceed to the steps by the gymnasium. Students may exit the cars at the bottom of the steps.

After dropping off the student cars must turn left and proceed around the lot and will exit on Trappe Road. (There is some construction on Trappe Road, so you will need to proceed to Gravel Pike)

Agents will be in the lot to assist with traffic patterns.

Faculty Lot Drop-Off

If you enter campus from Kagey Road, please use the faculty parking lot to drop off your student. You can also turn right onto Campus Drive if you enter from Wartman Road, however you will need to make a left turn into the parking lot. Agents and staff are in the drop-off areas. to assist.

Drop-Off after 8am

If you are dropping off a student after the school day begins you may drop them off in main office circle as the student will need to enter the building through these doors.

We ask for your patience and cooperation as we try to get over 1000 cars in addition to all of the buses onto campus in a very short period of time.

Working Papers can be issued if a student between the ages of 14 to 18 is applying for a job and working papers have not yet been issued. Working papers are required by the State of Pennsylvania until a student is 18 years old. Please send kgeorge@pvsd.org an e-mail for the instructions and procedures that has been established by the State of Pennsylvania.

August 16th Fall sports begin

August 24th 9th grade orientation 8-noon, Chromebook Distribution for 9th graders 5:30-7pm

August 24 Open House 5:30-7pm

August 30th First day of school for PVHS and NMTCC

September 3-7 No School

September 9th Meet the Teacher Night 7pm

September 16th No School

Email: cmoss@pvsd.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/pvsd.org/perkiomen-valley-high-school/
Location: 509 Gravel Pike, Collegeville, PA, USA
Phone: (610) 489-1230
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PerkValleyHS/
Twitter: @PerkValleyHS