hello and welcome to headlines i'm garrett one by one and i'm on your based are so their eyes testing in the state of pennsylvania is changing the school year the first wave of the case or exams were completed in the fall and more on the way for more information we got to step season and if the course required assessment in the state of pennsylvania students this year will test in algebra one biology and literature if students do not score a fifteen hundred or more knowledgeable one or literature retest in may in terms of preparation for the p s a's because the p s a's were a general assessment of skills there wasn't really preparation beyond your general school classes so the preparation is actually much more precise a student went to school here he was diagnosed the rare type of cancer and it was originally a basketball tournament when faculty members and unfortunately bill died but the same kind of cancer was diagnosed and mrs stevenson son in law and so every year we've done this benefit to try and help raise money for make a wish foundation the national honor society sponsored by mr kevin bastos and mrs deborah kendrick how the annual faculty dodgeball tournament on january twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen students from pleasant valley make my own mantri the middle school and the high school came to support their favorite at a gallery in the peter public life photography students at p t a just present a photo gallery at the public library students enrolled in this class participated in the club have an opportunity to showcase their work with enlarge photographic portfolios for this project student had defied by photo portfolio so they could put their fifteen photos to resemble their talk with this portfolio they had to print letters to put on it that has the name of their topic after they put the photos there finishing each student had to select some photos that they felt represented the best and then my six officers went and picked three from each of those students and they had to create their own little photo bios that they put on there with their faces and a little quote about photography and in addition they created a fifteen page portfolio with one particular theme that they wanted to show to feature their best work we had to see at the photo gallery before march seventh this is my from headlines the gallery will be on display until march seventh for the public to enjoy every year the world cultures class is explore the buddhist culture with an interactive lesson involving meditation and yoga world cultures all require course for soft morris in this class students study for major regions of the world starting with earliest civilization which is africa they better learn about the middle east south asia and finally east asia a typical day usually involves some homework going over homework what we did introducing a new concept and setting up students to work on their own to get to know a topic in more depth as part of our south asia study that we're in right now we're going to do a little yoga we've been doing yoga for probably the past five years because it is part of the origins of both hindu isn't and buddhism both religions practiced as a way of kind of both understanding their beliefs and putting their beliefs into practice we've had a lot of fun with yoga this is k we go to reporting to you from room to twenty six students recently visited a buddhist zen center and a hindu temple and so weakly they were able to get a firsthand account of buddhist culture and their practices i've heard it was awarded to p t a just last year that a lot of students create a small business that provides funding to other students who are interested in doing service projects so any student who wishes to do a service project could ask us for a mini grant to help complete their project so at this time we have an application that will be sending out to throughout the school hopefully blasted to everybody so if you for example thought i have a service project and i need some money you would complete the application give it to us and then we would students would determine whether or not it was worthy of one of our many grants and we would give you the money that you needed to get your project  teammates the practice and the games there he is a helping hand and a person to talk to for the players i'm starting to worry about my boyfriend one minute he's supportive the next minute everything is my fault he says a couple of beers get him in a good mood his idea of a couple of beers usually turns out to be a lot more than just one or two and that's when i start to anon family groups so i could understand my feelings better i didn't want to go because i didn't want to get into another argument with my boyfriend but i'm glad i went i'm starting to understand that i didn't cause his anger it didn't cause his drinking it's a great relief to hear a new i'm dead weight to see the bike we got for jake hearing loss happens gradually with age making it easy to ignore yet most older americans aren't getting their hearing tested untreated hearing loss can keep your loved ones from enjoying what they cherish most that can you hear me don't let that happen speak up about hearing loss you'll be glad you did when you're finished with your food or beverage cartons toss it in the recycling bin because every carton is recycled thank you turned into useful paper products so class our design in constructing bridges using also wood and specific software so perhaps we focus on the west point bridge simulator on computers which is a program that allows them to build a bridge virtually test on the computer they get feedback from it right away to see where they need to fix a piece of their bridge or redo a design completely once they've mastered that program so to speak we then have them transfer their design from a program into real life using balls with project common eights with the class testing their own bridges determining who's design can hold the most weight this has been jenna connor reporting from the competitive technology classrooms in overall congratulations girls on being the first team from pennsylvania to win a national title in february the city council held the end you will win our heart of what the high school for and the about we go to alexa the way our carnival children's hospital free care fund which provides medical treatment for kids and families in dire financial situation student council every year holds their annual fundraiser called the winter carnival it's  headlines they raise server one thousand dollars for the outpatient care center at st clair hospital library arts caf will be held the first week of march in the p t a just library it will feature student art exhibits media projects go the pittsburgh business times has recently released a ranking of the region's top fifty high schools based on s a t s who are according to the rankings p t h s had the sixth highest average in all of western pennsylvania peters squirms increased this year by one point four percent going from an average of sixteen twenty nine to sixteen fifty two students have been forming study groups and working with private tutors and teachers have added to their success by integrating daily s a t questions into their lessons especially in math and english it's very important to make sure that you take a look at the data that it provides and i think that ongoing training for teachers and modifying the curriculum as we see fit to keep up with the changes on the test so i think that's how we would maintain high schoolers reporting from the peters township high school for because my first coach told me you can do this because my teacher helped me see the choices because mike has treated me like everybody else because my boss showed me to do a good job because two championships i am a valuable employee i have a career that i am passionate about at what can you do like all 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humanities class got the opportunity to skype with the peace one day organization founder jeremy gilley piece one day is a global initiative for a worldwide  ceasefire and an overall day of peace students were able to ask him questions pertaining to anything from the origin of the organization to his own personal life to find out more on the organization visit peace one day dot org and pledge your allegiance to keep the peace on september twenty first two thousand and thirteen p t h s offers many elective courses such as dragon design painting digital design and ceramics the ceramics courses offers offers a student a chance to make three d pieces and participate in hands on activities for more on this we go to gem pardi ceramics is an elective offered in the art department at p t a just in ceramics one students are split into two groups the hymn builders and the wheel the hymn builders make pinch pots pla student leadership consortium p a s l c is a gathering of student leaders from western pennsylvania that will be held at the high school on feb twenty eighth they are meeting to discuss problems work together and find solutions peters township executive council there among an elite group of sixteen thousand students across the nation to earn this honor the scholars were selected for their skills accomplishments and potential for success in rigorous colace college studies the high school students are in the process of  if you're interested in seeing the middle schools rendition of opie perform feb twenty eighth for march second adults are seven dollars and students are for education foundation last month six of the thirteen grants were fulfilled the lawrence miller at bauer hill will receive an i pad for her autistic support classroom maria power hill will receive classroom aides to assist in teaching