PRINCIPAL'S UPDATE February 20, 2022

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STUDENTS AND STAFF TEST ON MONDAY EVENING In preparation for the extended holiday weekend, students and staff in attendance today were provided take home test kits. We are asking everyone to take a home test on Monday, Febuary 21st prior to returning to school on Tuesday. If you test positive, you must notify the Attendance Office and you should log the test result into Primary Health. If you have never tested at one of our testing sites, please use one of the links below to register. One registration is good for the school year. Please register no later than 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 19th so you receive an important message from the district through Primary Health with instructions on how to administer the test and upload your positive test results, if applicable. You will receive communication through Primary Health on Sunday, February 20th with a link to report the result of your test.     Primary Health Student Registration  Primary Health Staff Registration

This Week's Bell Schedule NO SCHOOL MONDAY Tuesday, Thursday, Friday - Regular Schedule Wednesday - Late Start

This Thursday, February 24th (2/24) is a special day for our Class of 2024! All members of the sophomore class are encouraged to wear orange to school and get excited for some fun surprises at lunch. Surprises will be handed out to Sophomores wearing orange on Thursday!

Scheduling Calendar  All grade levels will be meeting with their counselor regarding their schedule for the 2022-2023 school-year. Here is the timeline for each grade level:  Juniors - Feb 22 through March 4  Sophomores - ongoing through Sophomore counseling meetings  Freshmen - March 7 through March 18th

SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES  Please check Schoolinks for scholarship opportunities! Current postings include: Sons of Italy Western Foundation Scholarship (due 3/1), PV Peninsula Lions Club (due 3/3), Palos Verdes Junior Womens Scholarship (due 3/11) and many more! To find scholarship listings on Schoolinks, click on Finances (left info bar), then Scholarship Matching. Look for scholarships that say, “posted by your district” above the name then click on the name of the scholarship to find out more information including how to apply.

FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)  Seniors: Reminder that the FAFSA deadline for California schools is March 2, 2022. If seniors are applying to out-of-state schools, make sure you are checking the FAFSA deadline for those states. The CCC will be hosting a “How To Fill Out a FAFSA” webinar on Wednesday, February 16th at 6:30 p.m.    HOW TO BUILD YOUR COLLEGE LIST TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd at 6:30P  Putting together a college list is a process that is personal and different for every student. Many factors must be considered and prioritized based on the student’s self-reflection of what their priorities are for their college experience. Annie Mills, Assistant Director of DePaul University will discuss the different factors to consider and the importance of academic and social fit. (Nancy Shafer will be discussing financial fit in our Money Matters presentation on March 3rd.) Julie Arico, Director of the PVPHS College Career Center, will bring students and parents through how to use our SchooLinks tool which will assist in research and building the college list. Registration is required with a valid PVPUSD Student ID# by 5:00P on 2/22. Click HERE to register.

LINK CREW INFORMATION SESSIONS THIS WEEK!    Are you a kind, enthusiastic, and responsible sophomore or junior? Want to gain valuable leadership experience by mentoring incoming PVPHS Panther freshmen? Then apply to join PVPHS Link Crew! If you’re interested in learning more about this exciting leadership opportunity and award-winning program, come to an information session on Tuesday the 22nd or Thursday the 24th at lunch in room P103 to hear all about it! You must attend one of the two sessions to apply. Questions? Contact Ms. Dibble on Teams.

Volunteer for Our Patriots!    PVPHS SLL is hosting a letter-writing campaign for our patriots on Thursday and Friday, March 3rd and 4th. Drop by the library at lunch on those days to create a card to show your appreciation for their service to our country, and earn volunteer hours as well. Sign up with this link: https://forms.gle/8pBtT442evajJuXw8.  We hope to see you here!

Powerpuff    A friendly flag football game between junior and senior girls is coming soon on April 8th at 4:30 on the football field. Signups go live on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 6 P.M, and here is the link:  https://forms.office.com/r/xrzQQEiVcy

CALIFORNIA SCHOLARSHIP FEDERATION  Congratulations to all of the new and continuing CSF members! During January, CSF took in 1049 applications for winter 2022 membership. The class of 2022 has 232 Sealbearers (seniors with four semesters membership starting sophomore year) with an amazing 182 of those seniors achieving Highest Honors (five qualifying semesters of CSF) and 152 of them having membership EVERY single semester of high school (seven). The list of members can be found HERE.  Any questions, or if you are still interested in membership, please contact Mrs. Okamoto at [email protected] IMMEDIATELY!

PVPHS AcaDec Update Peninsula High Academic Decathlon placed 3rd at the Los Angeles County Regional Finals February 5, once again earning a bid to represent LA Couty in this year's California Academic Decathlon State Finals to be held in March.    Leading Pen High Aca Dec's Team to their place on the podium among LA County's top 3 schools for 2021-2022 is Senior Captain Alexandria Lam (12), along with fellow Captains Stella Masuda (11), Brandon Zhang (11) & Harry Zhao (11). And rounding out this year's team are Junior Captains Gina Joo and Lei Spagnola (10), Artin Abdemanafi (9), Danny Eatmon (12), Emily Kallah (11), Brielle Young (11) and Emily Zhu (10).    Congratulations to Pen High Aca Dec for bringing home the Gold...again!

唱一首歌  Congratulations to Ms. Anderson’s Chinese 1 students 馬志誠 Luc Armamento and 劉佳廷 Justin Liu for winning 3rd place in the Chinese Song Singing Contest for high school students in Southern California.

Congratulations to Panther Science Fair Winners International Science Fair Designees (Top 3 projects at PVPSEF) Vivien He: QubeNetwork: A Low-Cost, High-SensitivityConsumer Seismic Network forEarthquake EarlyWarning William Huang: Argus III: A Novel Image Optimization and Augmentation Framework to Enable an Improved Patient Experience for the Next Generation Epiretinal Prosthesis Akash Anand: Optimization of Distributed Phased Arrays  LA County Science Fair Designees (Top 13 Projects at our School) Vivien He William Huang Justin Liu Akash Anand Sarah Cao Katherine Le & Claire Dokko Amrutha Srivatsav Audrey Lu & Fiona Cho Brindha Srivatsav Aila Shibao Michele Chan Andrew Chi & Henry Chung Alexandria Lam Category Awards: Behavioral/Social Sciences 1st place: Sydney Chung 2nd place: Sara Moshfeghi Biomedical Engineering: 2nd place: Audrey Lu & Fiona Cho Biomedical Health Sciences & Translational Medicine 1st place: Justin Liu 2nd place: Katherine Le & Claire Dokko 3rd place: Amrutha Srivatsav Chemistry 2nd place: Megan Mendonca Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Robotics & Intelligent Machines 1st place - William Huang 2nd place - Andrew Chi & Henry Chung Earth and Environmental Sciences 1st place - Vivien He 2nd place - Aila Shibao Energy: Sustainable/Environmental Engineering 1st place: Brindha Srivatsav Environmental Engineering/Engineering Mechanics/Materials Science 2nd place: Alexandria Lam 3rd place: Anthony Valencia Mathematics/Physics 1st place: Akash Anand 3rd place: Joshua Choi Microbiology 2nd place: Candace Baik 3rd place: Parth Ingle Plant Sciences 1st place: Michele Chan 2nd place: Benjamin Sanchez

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A BLACK & GOLD AFFAIRE IS ONLY 4 WEEKS AWAY -- REGISTER TODAY! This is Peninsula High athletics largest and most important fundraiser! Help us fund our trainers, maintain our facilities, and keep our athletics programs strong by supporting this event!  Did you receive your email invitation? If not, go to the Athletic Booster Club website to register and learn more. A limited number of tickets will be sold so send in your RSVP soon. Early bird pricing ends February 26th. THANK YOU to the generous Panther families that have already become a sponsor and/or donated an auction item. Every family of an athlete is asked to become a sponsor and/or donate. Visit www.PVPHSABC.com to register and for all the information you need to support A Black & Gold Affaire!

Wake up with Wellness Wednesdays  Our school's Sage therapists are hosting a weekly online support group through MS Teams for students struggling with anxiety. This is an open group allowing for drop-ins any week that you feel like you need more support. Sessions may include an activity centered on managing anxiety, guided meditation, goal-setting, or processing emotions. Whether you’re struggling with anxiety from quarantine/Covid, school, social relationships, or uncertainty, feel free to drop-in whenever you need. We’re here to support you.    Recurring every Wednesday until Spring Break from 8:30am – 9:00am (30 minutes). Follow this link for more information:    https://pvphs.pvpusd.net/apps/pages/Counseling/Wellness  South Bay Families Connected: Focus on youth wellness     Finally, after a full year of distance learning, some students have, understandably, experienced the return to in-person learning as a social challenge. PVPUSD partner South Bay Families Connected (SBFC), a network of 115 schools in the South Bay, has organized Teaching Social Skills: Resources for Parents and Guardians, which contains a video featuring students at local schools, including PVPHS’s own Rhys Moon and Amanda Rucker, sharing their perspectives regarding the social ups and downs of returning to in-person learning. There you will also find some useful tips to support your children and teens as they develop and refine their own social skills. For related resources, please visit the SBFC Healthy Relationships Page. The SBFC Virtual Teen Center contains a wide variety of mental health and wellness topics. To see more youth wellness resources provided by PVPUSD and SBFC, please visit our own PVPUSD Families Connected.

Sincerely, Dr. Brent Kuykendall Principal All District programs, activities, and practices shall be free from unlawful discrimination, including discrimination against an individual or group based on race, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information; a perception of one or more of such characteristics; or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.    Title IX Contact: Richard Licciardello, 310-378-9966 x 417  Section 504 Contact: Michael Bosler, 310-378-9966 x 444  375 Via Almar, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274  https://bit.ly/2PXa68Q

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