Greetings Pickerington Tiger Community:
It was a good, but rainy week at PHSC. It was a tough week for the athletic programs at Central. Our Boys Golf and Girls Tennis teams were the only teams to secure a victory in the past week. Our Girls Tennis team in particular continued their dominance in the OCC by having an undefeated week beating Newark, Worthington Kilbourne and Dublin Scioto high schools. Both of our Soccer programs did manage ties and our Cross Country programs competed well in their invitationals. Our Tiger Football team dropped a close and exciting game at Lancaster. That loss snapped a school-record 28 game regular season win streak that extended back to the 2006 season. Great job boys! All of our student/athletes will continue to work hard and fight hard for their PHSC teams!
This Friday is our big annual cross-town rivalry game with Pickerington High School North at Crew Stadium. We have no doubt that this will be a highly intense and competitive game from two outstanding football programs. PHS North Principal Cindi Goldhaber and I recorded a video message to the Pickerington students and community members reminding them that although our teams are battling for the win, we are all one community and should represent ourselves in a positive and united way. This is a great opportunity for our community to come together to proudly showcase the fine students and athletes at both our excellent schools. If you would like to view our message, you may do so by going to this site: http://www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/districtNewsArticle.aspx?artID=759
PHS Central stepped up this week with activities and opportunities for our students to give back to, and help support important causes in our community. Our National Honor Society, in conjunction with the Red Cross, sponsored our annual Blood Drive this week to do our part to ensure there is a supply of blood for those in need. Our Girls Volleyball team boosters sold Volley for the Cure t-shirts this week during our lunch periods for our annual game with PHS North to be played on September 29. Students wearing a shirt enter the game free, and all proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for cancer research. These are outstanding examples of our students not only excelling in the classroom, but also learning valuable lessons of responsible citizenship.
As I shared in my last letter, PHSC was in the Cool School of the Week contest sponsored by Fox 28 TV. Unfortunately, we lost in the voting tabulations to Grove City High School. We congratulate Grove City because this is a wonderful opportunity for their students, who because of the elimination of all sports and activities, don’t have the opportunity that our students have. We wish them well.
This Thursday was an early dismissal so that our teachers could have an in-service professional development opportunity. We continued the work from our Waiver Days last August by meeting in grade-level focus groups to collaborate on our desired student learning goals for each grade, discuss our data and talk about the impact of our classroom instruction and needed professional development to meet our goals. As always, our very talented staff had great discussion and ideas to consider. I will share more as those ideas begin to materialize into practice.
Finally, next week marks the halfway point of the first grading period. Interims will be given on Wednesday, September 30. Please review your student’s progress as the first grading period sets the academic tone for the rest of the year. The regular deadline for the upcoming October 24 ACT administration has passed, however registration for that test with a late fee is open until Friday, October 2. If your student is a Junior or Senior, I highly recommend that they attempt the ACT multiple times for the best possible results.
Have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing many of you at Crew Stadium!
Go Tigers!
M. Scott Reeves
Principal, Pickerington High School Central
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