The BBB team has qualified to play at Kimball in a district finals game on Monday, March 2nd!
The game will be played at Kimball at 5:00pm Mountain Time. (The NSAA member schools voted to discontinue the neutral site games if over 180 miles)
More details to come!
Good luck to the GBB team tonight vs Johnson County Central in the district finals game in Pender! Tip off is set for 7:00pm!
-Admission is $6/$5
-Doors will open at 6:00pm
-You can stream on Hudl Fan
59 Pender FFA members competed in their first round of District Career Development Events (CDEs) on Tuesday at NECC! 9 teams were competing for a ticket to state while 5 teams were improving their skills. Pender came out of the day with 4 teams qualified for state! Congratulations to all that competed!




Congratulations to the Pender boys basketball team for beating Hartington-Newcastle tonight and moving on to a district final for a chance to go to the state tournament!




The theme for the girls district final basketball game tomorrow night will be White Out! Be there and be LOUD!!!

Today Pender Public Schools was reminded just how special our community truly is.
Just in case you notice a change in your students lunch balance, please know a generous individual recently stepped forward and paid off all outstanding student lunch balances — no recognition requested, just a desire to help.
This act of kindness lifts a burden for families and ensures our students can focus on what matters most: learning, growing, and being kids.
To this incredible donor — thank you. Your generosity makes a difference in ways you may never fully see.
Let’s all continue to look for simple ways to show up for one another. Kindness matters.
Just in case you notice a change in your students lunch balance, please know a generous individual recently stepped forward and paid off all outstanding student lunch balances — no recognition requested, just a desire to help.
This act of kindness lifts a burden for families and ensures our students can focus on what matters most: learning, growing, and being kids.
To this incredible donor — thank you. Your generosity makes a difference in ways you may never fully see.
Let’s all continue to look for simple ways to show up for one another. Kindness matters.

We had fun today being paleontologist. We excavated dinosaur bones (chocolate chips) from the earth (cookie) using a special took (a toothpick). We discovered many bones in the earth.









Good luck to the BBB team tonight in the Sub District Finals vs Hartington-Newcastle! The doors will open to fans at 6:15 and the game will tip off at 7:00pm!
-Admission is $6/5-no passes accepted
-It will be streamed on Hudl Fan!
-BE LOUD!!!!!!!!
The Pender speech team came away with a 3rd place finish in the East Husker Conference meet (East Division)! Below are individual results:
Kylie Roeber- runner-up in Informative 🥈
Farris Swinton- runner-up in Entertainment 🥈 & 5th in Duet
Sadie Ferris- 3rd in Serious prose 🥉
Max Kinning- 4th in Persuasive & 5th in Duet
Amaryn Bodlak- 4th in Humorous & 6th in Persuasive
Joy Trimble- 4th in Program of Oral Interpretation
Peyton Conroy- 5th in Extemp.
Chloe Lortz- 6th in Extemp.
Lydia Felber- 6th in Informative
Reese Kelly- 6th in Poetry
Kylie Roeber- runner-up in Informative 🥈
Farris Swinton- runner-up in Entertainment 🥈 & 5th in Duet
Sadie Ferris- 3rd in Serious prose 🥉
Max Kinning- 4th in Persuasive & 5th in Duet
Amaryn Bodlak- 4th in Humorous & 6th in Persuasive
Joy Trimble- 4th in Program of Oral Interpretation
Peyton Conroy- 5th in Extemp.
Chloe Lortz- 6th in Extemp.
Lydia Felber- 6th in Informative
Reese Kelly- 6th in Poetry
Reminder! The Pendragon Branch is open tomorrow (Wednesday) morning from 7:30 - 8:15. Send your child with a deposit and help our tellers reach their goal! We have lots of saving to do in the coming weeks!

On Monday, March 2nd, we will celebrate Read Across America Day @ PPS! PK-6 Students are encouraged to dress as a character from their favorite book! As always, no blow-up costumes or masks will be allowed for safety purposes. Thank you!

March Menu is now available

The link for 2026 K-6 Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences is live! Sign up now for a conference!

Good luck to speech team today at the EHC speech meet in Wakefield! Competition starts at 9am!
Benchuary Strikes Again!
Todays lift included 21 total reps of bench press, students got to choose between four different repetition schemes to get all of the reps done.
Fourth Hour (pictured) brought the juice and had great energy for each other through the lift.

Good luck to the boys basketball team tonight as they host the second round of the C2-5 subdistrict!
6:00pm-#1 Pender vs #5 Ainsworth
7:30pm-#2 Cedar Catholic vs #3 Hartington-Newcastle
$6/$5 Admission-Games will be streamed on Pender Hudl Fan
Boys Sub-District Themes! Be there and be loud!

The Pender GBB team will host Johnson County Central on Friday, Feb 27th at 7:00pm in a District Finals game for a chance to go to state basketball! More details to come!
Pender will host Ainsworth vs Oakland-Craig tonight at 6:00pm. Pender BBB will play the winner of this game tomorrow at 6:00pm.
No passes this week due to it being an NSAA event.
Good luck to the junior high wrestling team today at Lyons. Wrestling begins at 4:30 PM.
