While our staff deserve special appreciation every day, this week is National Staff Appreciation Week!
Please join us this week in sharing your gratitude with your child's teacher, coach, parapro, bus driver, principal, food service worker and more!
The PPS Board of Education will meet Monday, May 6, for a committee of the whole work session at 6:30 p.m. at the Portage Central High. The meeting will include a closed session to discuss collective bargaining strategy, as allowed under the Open Meetings Act.
To learn more, visit https://www.portageps.org/.../board-meeting-dates-agendas
The top students at Portage Central High were awarded for their efforts this school year at the annual Underclassmen Achievement Awards.
Congratulations Mustangs on such a great accomplishment!
Today is a special day for our Food Service Workers! They are Lunch Heroes every day, but today we are celebrating our amazing food service staff who serve about 25,000 meals every week!
KRESA stopped at Portage Community High School yesterday on their Reality Fair tour! Dozens of Juniors and Seniors got a taste of adulting by picking a career and salary and making lifestyle choices. At the end, they figured out if they are living within their means.
Great life lessons being taught at CoHS!
Congratulations to Prakash Shekhar from Portage Central for being selected as one of only 13 Michigan students selected as semifinalists for the 2024 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program!
Prakash was selected by the U.S. Department of Education for the prestigious program, which recognizes some of the most distinguished and accomplished graduating high school seniors in the country.
“Michigan’s U.S. Presidential Scholars Program semifinalists can take great pride in their accomplishments,” said State Superintendent Dr. Michael Rice. “I’m proud of these young people. They are representative of the great work that our state’s students are doing with support from their families and outstanding educators. I wish them luck as the U.S. Department of Education chooses this year’s scholars.”
It's time to do some spring cleaning and get rid of those old electronics!
The annual Electronics Recycling Event will be held 10-3, Thursday, May 16, at the PPS Admin Building, 8107 Mustang Drive.
Please visit www.portageps.org/news for a complete list of acceptable items.
Today was a day to celebrate our school principals! These amazing leaders work tirelessly to encourage students and guide staff. Thank you to all our PPS principals!
The time is nearly here to register for PPS Summer Camps! Here are a few key things you should know:
- Registration will open at 5 a.m. Wednesday, May 1.
- You will register through GoFan. You can view the Camp Catalog and find the registration link at www.portageps.org/summercamps.
- Your child will attend camps based on the grade they will be in the 24-25 school year.
- Each PPS student is allowed to register for ONE (1) PEF STEP camp only to make room for everyone. The PEF camps have limited space and will fill quickly. Students can register for multiple sports camps.
We look forward to another great summer of learning and fun!
The Portage District Library hosted a field trip for young fives students across the District today. Students learned about the lifecycle of frogs, farm animals, how worms help in a garden and more!
Let us introduce to you a new PPS staff member -- Rio! He will serve as a comfort dog at Portage Community High School.
A special thank you to his sponsors: Portage Rotary for the funds to purchase the comfort dog, Tractor Supply on Shaver Road for a reoccurring donation of dog food and Paw Prints Grooming on 12th Street for his beautifying needs!
Summer Camps at PPS are back! The 2024 camp catalog is available for viewing on our website or by clicking this link: https://5il.co/2ivgp
Registration will open Wednesday, May 1. We look forward to another great summer of learning and fun!
Huskies celebrated their Unified Club Tuesday with a friendly game of kickball between students, staff and officers from the Portage Department of Public Safety.
The club is aimed at promoting social connections through sports and joins people with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team.
The talent of forensics students was on display at Portage Central High this week. Students who are part of the competitive speech team performed for classmates ahead of Forensics Friends and Family Night next week.
Great job, Mustangs!
The Career Fair at Portage Northern High gave students the chance to speak to industry professionals and learn more about potential careers including engineering, health, plumbing, tattooing, military, policing and many more.
It was an exciting day at Portage North Middle School! Chef Jet Tila came to the school to demo a stir fry dish, sign autographs and discuss his career as a professional chef and Food Network star.
Thank you to Chef Jet and Chartwells K12 for this amazing opportunity for our students.
Become enchanted by the tale of "Beauty and the Beast" this weekend! Students from Portage Central Middle School will perform the love story as pure as a rose beginning Thursday, April 18.
Visit pchsboxoffice.ludus.com/index.php to purchase tickets today!
Our PPS staff members represented this past week at the Boston Marathon!! Mr. Krzan, math and AP government teacher at Portage Central High completed the race. Here he is pictured after the finish line with a fellow teacher from Loy Norrix High in Kalamazoo.
Great job!
We had other PPS staff who ran the Boston Marathon. Congratulations to Amberly 1st grade teacher, Mrs McWilliams. YOU ROCK!
Congratulations to Lifen Lu on running the Boston Marathon and placing 147th out of 934 runners in her age category! Lifen is a food service worker at Portage Northern High and one of our wonderful PPS staff members.
