Good morning,

We are days away from the start of the new school year. Staff has been in this week to get everything ready for our students. We are excited to see everyone again and can't wait to meet the Class of 2027. Our 9th grade orientation was held on August 22nd, led by our amazing Link Crew students. Our freshmen were led through a series of activities and toured the building. Many returned that evening to walk their schedule and get their new chromebook. Those 9th graders and students new to the district who still need their chromebook can go to the Viking Genius Bar between the hours of 7:30am-11am or 12:30-2:30 M-F. Students must have a copy of the QR code in order to receive a chromebook.

All students should be in their homeroom, period 0, by 7:50 on August 28th. We will follow a bell schedule that is posted later in this newsletter for the first week of school. After Labor Day will only have homeroom one time a month. Students will be notified in advance of that change.

Welcome to the 23-24 school year!

Dr. Cynthia Moss, Lead Principal

​Mrs. Stefanie Baker, White House Principal

Mr. Sean Berk, Red House Principal

Mr. Ryan Stanson-Marsh, Blue House Principal

This year the parent drop-off and pick up will occur in the student parking lot and in the faculty parking lot. Please do NOT drop off your student in any other area of campus. Please drop off your student between 7:20-7:40 am. Students will be able to enter the building to eat breakfast beginning at 7:15. Those not eating breakfast will be asked to remain outside until 7:40am. If there is inclement weather they will be permitted in the lobbies earlier. Students may only enter the building at the gym lobby or the cafeteria lobby before school begins.

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.

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 but before 2 pm

If you are dropping off a student after the school day begins you may drop them off in the 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.

All students are to report to their assigned homeroom the first week of school and follow the schedule posted above. Please note that students should be in their assigned homeroom by 7:50am. After the first day of school, when there is no tech school, AM tech students will report directly to the tech buses in the bus loop by 7:45am instead of going to homeroom.

All students are required to wear their student ID while in our building. All students who were in the PV district last year should wear their ID beginning August 28th. Students who are new to the district will need to come to the main office to receive a temporary ID. New IDs will be issued to students following the two picture days in early September. At that time all students will also receive a new lanyard.

Please remind your students that wearing their ID is not optional. We have approximately 2000 people in this building and need to be able to quickly identify students and staff.

Safety is always our top priority. We have upgraded our visitor management system by installing a Raptor System in all Perkiomen Valley schools. Visitors will need to scan their ID (driver's license) prior to being granted admittance into Perkiomen Valley High School and any of our schools in the Perkiomen Valley School District. Visit our webpage for more information.

Students who have "Senior Privilege" on their schedule period 1 or 10 must report to study hall for the first two weeks of school. They will receive a senior privilege application which must be submitted and approved prior to being permitted to come to school late or leave early. Students who are approved will receive a pass which they must show to security each day when leaving or arriving at school.

• Students should receive their first dose of meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV) at 11 – 15 years of age. A second dose is required at age 16 or entry into 12th grade.
  

• Documentation of vaccination or a valid medical, religious, or philosophical exemption is required for attendance in 12th grade.
  
• Seniors who have not met the vaccination requirements will be excluded from school beginning Sept 6th.

Verification of a physical exam is required for 11th grade. It may be completed up to 1 year prior to the start of Junior year (7/1/22). Please submit to Mrs. Cron (kcron@pvsd.org).

*Please note, a booster dose of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV) is recommended at age 16 years and a requirement for senior year. Please submit documentation when received.

We will have buses available after school for students.Students are to sign up for the bus using the link below for this transportation

After School Bus Sign Up.

Please sign up by 10:00 am for the bus ride home using this link.

Buses are as follows:

Mondays through Thursdays - 4:00 pm leaving from the bottom of the steps, student lot beginning 9/5

Monday through Thursdays - 5:00 pm leaving from the bottom of the steps, student lot beginning 8/28

Please note the district calendar below. Please make note of standardized testing dates as well as the last three half days, during which we administer final exams, as educational trips will not be approved during these windows.

Please read through the student handbook for information about our policies and procedures. In the high lites I will feature some portions of the handbook. The handbook is our guide everything about the high school. Please make note of the attendance policies, the dress code and the requirement of all students and adults to wear an ID while in our building. Students in grades 10-12 should come to school the first day with their ID from last year and we will have IDs for our 9th graders. All of our policies will be enforced according to our handbook.

Showtime will be at the HS Sept 7 and 8th for underclass photos. 9th and 10th graders will get their pictures taken on Sept 7 during their English classes while 11th graders will go on the 8th. Seniors should have all gotten their senior portraits taken over the summer. Senior portrait retakes will be on Sept 7th from 2:30-7pm in the Auditorium

There is no preset supply list for the high school. Teachers will inform students of any special supplies needed for their class.

Bus information will be available in ParentVue on August 21st.

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

Perkiomen Valley School District believes it is critical for students to foster positive reading habits in order to develop as lifelong learners. The district's summer reading program encourages students to read high-interest, self-selected texts. After all, summer reading is a great opportunity for each student to explore personal interests, various genres, topics he/she wants to know more about while discovering his/her own "just right" books. As an added bonus, reading high-interest materials prepares students for the demands of college and career-reading. Research strongly suggests that reading skills improve with practice and weaken when not exercised. So why have a summer reading program? The program exists to inspire a lifelong love of reading and to maintain and sharpen one's reading and thinking skills.

Student schedules will be available to be viewed on the Home Access Center beginning Wednesday, August 9th at noon.The building schedule and student schedules were both built based on the requests made last school year. When it was impossible to give a student their first elective choice, one of alternate choices was substituted. While we attempt to accommodate each and every schedule request, sometimes it is not possible to give students exactly what was requested. Schedule changes will only be made if there is an error or if a student is not scheduled for the required 6 credits at all times. The deadline to make changes in requested courses was March 30th and we built the master schedule for the high school based on these choices.

Schedule changes are only made in extreme cases. All changes to schedules must go through your student’s counselor.

2023-2024 Season Pass Information

2023-2024 Viking Athletic Department Ticket Program

Ticket Prices: Adults $5.00 Students $5.00

Student Yearly Pass: $40

This pass includes general admission for one student to home PV athletic events for the 2023-2024 school year. This pass does not include free admission to PAC, District 1 or PIAA playoff events. SCHOOL ID REQUIRED w/PASS AT EVENTS.

Family Yearly Pass: $150

This pass includes general admission for household family members to home PV athletic events for the 2023–2024 school year. To qualify, a family must have at least one Perkiomen Valley school-aged child. This pass does not include free admission to PAC, District 1 or PIAA playoff events. STUDENTS: SCHOOL ID REQUIRED w/PASS AT EVENTS.

Adult Yearly Pass: $80

This pass includes admission for one adult to home PV athletic events for the 2023-2024 school year. This pass does not include free admission to PAC, District 1 or PIAA playoff events.

Sr. Citizen Pass: Free! Senior Gold Card Application

This pass provides free general admission to Perkiomen Valley home events. You must be 65-years of age, reside in the Perkiomen Valley School District and provide proof of age and address. This pass may be obtained at the School District Administration Building. This pass does not include free admission to PAC, District 1 or PIAA playoff events.

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Those juniors and seniors who have already applied for parking permits will be able to pick them up beginning August 16th 8:30-am-3pmin the main office. Students who are on the debt list (owe money for any reason except the Senior Trip to Florida) 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.

PVHS and NMTCC have similar schedules, however there are some differences that you need to be aware of. There are three days in which the tech school is scheduled to have school and PV is closed, 2 days 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.

The first day of school for all PV students will be August 28th. NMTCC begins school this year on August 29th. PV students will be expected to attend the tech school on August 29th.

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: August 28, February 16,

PV is closed but the Tech school is open: Oct 9, Nov 10, April 10

PV half days: October 25, February 7 and May 24

PV half day but there is no tech: March 26

PV Asynchronous Days October 11, May 13, May 16 and May 21

Please see below for more detailed information regarding these days.

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

(PVHS in, NMTCC out)-August 28, February 16

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. Buses will be at the bus loop at noon to transport the PM tech students home after period 6.

(PVHS out, NMTCC in) October 9, November 10 and April 10

PV Asynchronous Days October 11, May 13, May 16 and May 21

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

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August 29 (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, there is tech October 25, February 7 and May 24

AM tech students will attend the tech school as they normally do. Once they return to the high school they will join their classes at PV. We will provide buses to the tech school at 11:30. Bagged lunches will be provided upon request for PM tech students. PM tech students are to attend study halls for periods 7-10 at PV.

PV Half Day, there is no tech- March 26

AM tech students who do not have transportation are to report to study hall periods 1-3. Students who can provide their own transportation can arrive at school for their ⅘ class. Students must sign in at the security desk. PM students can leave after their period 6 class. A bus will be provided for those who need a way home.

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.

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In the past 10 years we have found that fewer and fewer students use their assigned locker. Based on feedback from our students, we are no longer assigning lockers to all students. We will be implementing a process where a student can request a locker if they desire. Students will receive a google form that they can fill out if they want to be assigned to a locker. The locker number and combination will be available to students in StudentVue. The form will be available closer to the start of 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 will 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.

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.

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 28th First day of school for PVHS

August 29th First day of school for NMTCC

September 1-4 No School

September 7th Meet the Teacher Night 7pm

September 7th-8th Underclass picture days

September 25th No School

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Location: 509 Gravel Pike, Collegeville, PA, USA
Phone: (610) 489-1230
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