to headlines i'm courses and i'm changing the pennsylvania department of education has implemented a new attendance policy to ensure sufficient attendance for students to hear more about this protocol we hear from malory sugar peters township school district has introduced some changes to the two thousand and eighteen two thousand nine hundred school year one of these changes is the revised attendance policy students can miss ten excuse school days before  absences there are things you can't avoid and there are things you can and that's what we're trying to make make a difference and try to put in a series of interventions to help kids that are maybe making the decision to stay home or do a skip day or something like that when coming in late students hopped up bus and before entering the school after two tardies students where we penalize with a note home and after school attention and a four hour saturday detention if the tardiness continues this has been mallory sugar reporting live from the peterson attendance office for more information about how peters township will be implementing this attends policy visit the district website where all of the policies are listed and described outside of the core classes recut required for p t just students there are a wide variety of electives that are offered in order to give them a well balanced schedule and any unique learning opportunity let's hear from catherine o'neill on how to add these classes into your schedule at peter such a high school there is a wide selection of electives that are available for students to choose from the high school offers courses for each individual and students have the ability to pick and choose what we have many many ele really electives such as art media tech music and language are offered through these courses students are able to gauge and understand what areas interest some of the most this has been cash money or reporting live from the counseling office in order to learn more about the electives that are offered to students the list of courses is available to view on the peters township high school's website and can be found by searching for the course description b indian marching band has been taking the field with a new genre of music this year beethoven the band has been practicing after school and performing at home and away football games currently in their forty six season of pride and excellence the peters township mighty indian marching band is preparing for what's shaping up to be one of their best seasons yet this year the approximately one hundred and twenty members of the band will be performing a halftime show featuring the music of beethoven a nice change of pace from their repertoire of concept shows over the past two years all in all i think they have done above average work and have a good focus and a good idea of know what they are tasked to work on  and improve the band has also been rehearsing music for their pre game show and parades as well as a plethora of new stands tunes to perform during football games this year the mighty indians will be performing at all p t varsity football games in addition to band festivals parades pep rallies a college football game and a trip to chicago illinois this spring reporting live from the p t a chess studio my name sam the beethoven selection was decided upon by the faculty that work with the students to produce the p t halftime shows returning to direct the p t a just mark marching band this year is milton barney to learn more about his background let's hear from jerry peters township mighty indian marching band is back with a different director mr mills barney was previously a director for the p t s d from two thousand and eight to two thousand and fourteen and as return for the two thousand eight hundred to two thousand one hundred school year he has worked at the school for eleven years and is excited to once again be the spent just over twenty years in the united states air force band performing all over the world he has also previously taught saxophone at two local colleges but nothing compares to the memories he's made directing the peterson home to market and this is an area reporting to you live from the high school band room band is just one of the offerings in the music department in addition students who are musically inclined may also choose to enroll in a choir class a digital music arts class or even a course designed to explore being part of the high school symphony one of the amenities offered to students at the piers touch a blackberry now called the media center books are just one thing found here as we start to two thousand and eighteen nineteen school year the library is a the library has a website that details its offerings and is updated often the site is a resource that students may use to help in their research for classes future goals and history the rowdy red club was created and is run almost entirely by students this group works to create a sense of school spirit among the students let's go to our g follow need to hear more about this new organization the peters taunter proudly read as a collective group of students at the high school who radiates school spirit many know the rowdy rathore is just a twitter account to let kids know the themes of football games that account is not school affiliated the real rocky road is a club that works with student council to rather block out each t just a bunch of fun stuff to get our crowd pumped up for these games there should be a meeting towards next week mid september about joining the club this is only the second miller was appointed the president the club does things such as make posters buy things for games and most importantly get the crowds rowdy this is audrey saloni reporting live from the peters township high school are daily here on channel seven at eight fifteen am monday through friday the show is a great way to get information about when all the clubs will be meeting the students of peters township high school organize rally to get everyone ready for the football team's game against when hills are student section was packed all to wall with fans decked out in their beach gear providing a great energy that helped the boys win the game to tell us more about how the executive council kept up the i was very happy after leaving that i felt that since we had a different components and the take off in the relay i think the students liked it and you know you're not going to please everyone so some people probably have their own opinions but i think that our whole group the long because attend lots of sporting events where positive pep is always appreciated mr prodi the school choir director is taking the choir to nashville this year to participate in the barbershop harmony society festival will be held in tennessee and the kids have been preparing for it since the beginning of the school year this january the peterson surprise choir rowdy rhythm will be traveling to nashville to perform in the barbershop harmony society festival the last time the choir participated it was held in san antonio chapel in september you can check the school district website for photos of the event and find out where you can see your choir perform next the student leadership is off to a great start this year with some awesome fundraising and activities to bring to our high school the freshman sophomore junior and senior class officers meet once a week on an easy day to discuss upcoming events a school executive council is a group of students who are elected to represent the student body the council meets once every five day or for forty one minutes these students are responsible for planning pepper ollie's voicing the opinions of students and making changes to improve life as a student for executive council we have four different groups five different groups there's the freshman officers the software officers the junior officers and the senior officers and s council being a fourth year member of the second account so i've learned a lot from everyone this year it's been different because we started planning over the summer we planned our first pep rally we started over the summer and it was much different than ours before it's been great to be an executive council we do a lot for the school no one really knows it but if you want to express your opinions on changes you want to see talk to one of your class representatives this is been rachel rayburn reporting live from one  homecoming activities are being planned by our student leaders and will take place the week of october fourteen another one of the remarkable fall sports teams is the varsity pierce township field hockey team we now go to varsity team member chloe hero she and her teammates plan to continue with the season looking forward to the two thousand hockey this will be my last year a lot of us are playing fourth and fifth grade and there's only eight of us graduating so it's current it's pretty sad but more excited for a good season the team will be on october twelfth against upper saying make sure to come out and support the team and say farewell to our seniors as the fall sports season is well underway the peters township high school girls soccer team has shown that they are force to be reckoned with let's hear about how they've done as we go to kayla mcfarren the peter sancia girls soccer team is ranked number one in the section and number three in the nation they have a lot of returning players and many strong freshman to contribute to the team's victory each and every player has their own role on the team on and off the field in order to succeed our senior captains this year and they do a great job of keeping us positive on the field and hopefully they can liest a victory this year the team goal this year is to represent peters township in the state championship the team has already defeated local rivals u s c mount lebanon and bethel park the lady indians will face each team again on their way to the state and reporting live from peterson of high school team at their senior rock last home game on wednesday october tenth against baldwin good luck girls at the peterson school that's been true one eighty five put on many musicals and plays throughout the year this fall the thespians are vigorously preparing and getting ready for the fall play and take any the show will be performed in october on the eleventh twelfth and thirteenth at seven pm at the peters township high school auditorium tickets are five dollars for students and ten dollars for adults cross country is one of the many false words peter sonship that is offered to the students so far both the girls and boys teams  h s cross country is a popular sport to many students as a hard working school or as a way to stay in shape our city cross country runner lucas dons has once said it was the best decision of my life so what i think the best part of cross country this is probably just the group of people to come out and do it all i feel like over my three years across country a lot of the people on this team and kind of become a family so that's the best throughout the years the cross country team has won numerous awards and i've set many records alongside nicole has the current five k time record for the voice at fifteen minutes and forty four seconds and cathy now has the five k record for the girls with a time of eighteen minutes and three seconds this is bentley omonia reporting from peter sasha high school you can see the team in action on tuesday october sixteenth i mean go park be sure to cheer the team on or wish them good luck at this big race that has been all for this edition of headlines i'm beaten jenkins and i'm costas minsky thank you for tuning in we'll see you next time