SPECIAL THANKS: A very special thank you to Home Depot for their generous donation of workshop kits to Plainwell Middle School! As construction continues in the Middle School and with the Woodshop under repair, these kits have helped provide great learning opportunities for the middle school students. Thank you to Home Depot for your support of Plainwell Community Schools - Plainwell Pride!
THIS WEEK AT PCS: Stay up to date with the latest Trojan News with "This Week at PCS". Please check weekly for Montange's Message, as well as the latest news and updates from the district and school buildings. For This Week at PCS for September 6-12, 2021, please visit https://www.plainwellschools.org/article/529493.
Have a great week, Trojans and remember to "Work Hard & Be Nice to People"!
TROJAN CROSS COUNTRY: The Plainwell Girls Cross Country team has had a very successful start to the 2021 season. Their first two meets have resulted in two trophies for the team!
At the season opening Niles Invitational, the Trojans brought home the championship trophy along with 10 individual medals (including the overall winner, Mackenzie Hill for her first career XC victory).
At their second race of the season, they competed against a talented field at the South Haven Rustbuster Invitational. The Trojans were able to come away with a runner up finish and trophy behind state ranked Otsego. For the second time, Mackenzie Hill was the meet champion, and led the 5 PXC girls who finished in the medal hunt.
What a great start to the season, way to go Trojans!
MIDDLE SCHOOL TEAM BUILDING: It’s been a great start to the week at PCS! At the Middle School, the students have been doing some awesome team building activities with their teachers. We are excited to have the students back to school after summer break!
THIS WEEK AT PCS: Stay up to date with the latest Trojan News with "This Week at PCS". Please check weekly for Montange's Message, as well as the latest news and updates from the district and school buildings. For This Week at PCS for August 30-September 5, 2021, please visit https://www.plainwellschools.org/article/523967.
Have a great week, Trojans and remember to "Work Hard & Be Nice to People"!
ATTENTION TROJAN ALUMNI: Join us in signing the 125th rivalry commemorative banner at tonight's varsity PHS vs. OHS football game at the main entrance to Streidl Field. All past players, cheerleaders and band members are welcomed and encouraged to sign the banner to commemorate the anniversary game! We look forward to seeing you tonight to help cheer on the Trojans at 7 PM in this special rivalry game!
Still need tickets, please visit www.bit.ly/plainwell-tickets to get your tickets online prior to the game. GO TROJANS!
SAIL DEPARTS: Our Summer Adventure in Learning program ended last week! To celebrate a great summer of learning and adventures, the SAILing crew had a special lunch together. From all of us at PCS, we thank our amazing summer staff for their hard work and dedication to our students this summer - thank you to each of you for being a PCS SAIL anchor, you really kept us afloat! Until next year SAILors, ahoy matey!
SAIL (MICHIGAN’S) ADVENTURE DAY: After a week of learning about the physics involved in building a rollercoaster, the Middle School Session 2 SAIL students had an awesome last adventure day as they took a trip to Michigan’s Adventure. There were lots of smiles, laughs and memories made during this special trip. What a great summer of fun and learning at the SAIL program!
SOCCER ALUMNI GAME: PCS held their annual alumni soccer game last night. It was a great turnout with 26 alumni present to play against the PHS Varsity team. In the end, the Varsity team won, 2-0, but it was still a great time for all the Trojans to come together for this fun annual competition.
SAIL ADVENTURE DAY: The 4th and 5th grade SAIL students took to the Air (Zoo) on their adventure day this morning. The students explored and had fun while enjoying all the wonderful learning opportunities at the Air Zoo. It was a great way for the Session 2 Sailors to end their summer of learning (and adventures) at the Summer Adventure in Learning program!
RHS MAEO AWARD: At the June meeting of the Plainwell Board of Education, Renaissance High School received the honor of becoming the Michigan Alternative Education Organization (MAEO) School of the Year. To be nominated for this honor schools must demonstrate specific indicators of quality programming that signify meeting each of the identified Exemplary Practices in Alternative Education which include vision and mission, leadership, climate and culture, staffing and PD, and curriculum and instruction. The staff accepted their award from the president of the MAEO organization, Rhonda Marcum and Superintendent Matt Montange. Congratulations RHS, Plainwell Pride!
MIDDLE SCHOOL SAIL : It's been a great few weeks of learning in our Summer Adventure in Learning program. Last week, the Middle School students built hoop gliders and solar ovens. This week during their final week at SAIL, the students were "building" up to their final trip to Michigan's Adventure by learning about the physics involved in designing a rollercoaster. They learned about topics like potential and kinetic energy, and velocity. It has been an awesome summer at the Middle School SAIL program!
AAESA STRATEGIC PLANNING SURVEY: The AAESA is starting a strategic planning process to develop and implement a 3-5 year strategic plan and they are looking for your input. If you did not attend a focus group at AAESA, they ask that you please complete the following brief survey at: https://www.alleganaesa.org/.
Thank you in advance for your time and input.
Go Trojans!
SAIL ROLLERCOASTERS: The Midde School Summer Adventure in Learning students had fun today building rollercoasters using a variety of materials. It’s been fun watching the student’s creativity shine through on the many projects the PMS SAIL team has put together this summer.
TROJAN ATHLETICS: It was an exciting day for Trojan athletics, as today was the official start to fall sports! Excitement was in the air and on the field, course, pool and gym. Looking forward to watching our student-athletes compete this season - Go Trojans!
SAIL ART & ADVENTURE: The students in the Middle School SAIL program have been busy the last couple of weeks working on a variety of art projects, including:
- Studying music, art and the Fibonacci ratio. The students combined the idea of Fibonacci and music by studying artist Jackson Pollock. They worked on “Action Paintings “ while listening to jazz and watched a video on how Pollock’s works have recently been discovered by scientists that his paintings consistently have the fractal quality of Fibonacci more than any other artist because of the natural movement of the body!
- Next, the students got creative during their study on solar by creating sun sculptures made from paper clay and tissue paper that dried in the sun!
To end their week of SAIL last week, the PMS students took an adventure to Holland Nature Center where they learned about birds of prey! It's been a great summer at SAIL! This week is our final week for Session 2 and we look forward to more learning, artwork and adventures for the PCS SAIL students!
SAIL ADVENTURE: The SAIL kindergarten and 1st grade students had a great adventure day as they explored Boulder Ridge Wild Animal Park. They met several animals including giraffes, birds, camels and reptiles, just to name a few. The students had a great time learning and exploring while visiting the animal park. It was another fun adventure for the SAIL program!
SAIL ADVENTURE DAY: Last week, our SAIL 2nd and 3rd grade students took an adventure to the Holland Dutch Village where they did a lot of learning and exploring. It’s been a great summer of SAILing at PCS!
SAIL ADVENTURE DAY: Last week, our SAIL 2nd and 3rd grade students took an adventure to the Holland Dutch Village where they did a lot of learning and exploring. It’s been a great summer of SAILing at PCS!
TROJAN ATHLETIC CONGRATULATIONS: Congratulations to Drake Johnson on signing his letter of intent to play golf at Aquinas College. Wishing Drake all the best at Aquinas, we will be cheering you on from PCS!
