News & Announcements

9/5/23: Mrs. Kelly’s English III Classes are learning about the Salem Witch Trials as an introduction to “The Crucible.” They completed a gallery walk full of information to help them understand the people involved, the motivation behind the trials, and more!

9/5/23: Mrs. Kelly’s English IV class started their “Macbeth” unit this past week, and started it off with a bang. After learning about Shakespeare and the background of the play, students participated in a competition titled “32 Second Macbeth.”

9/1/23: The PHS Library has been busy this week! Students have been working on stations in Mrs. Bean's Algebra class and learning research skills in Mrs. Parman's Dual Credit Composition classes. Freshmen in Mrs. Bramlett's English 1 class came by to learn the ins & outs of the PHS library during library orientation, and another class came by to check out books. Mrs. Beatty brought her oral communications class to print pictures for an upcoming assignment. Before school, during advisory, and lunch, students dropped in to work together on a puzzle or play a quick game of chess.

9/1/23: Mrs. Taylor’s English I class is studying The Odyssey. Last week, they put the places Odysseus visited in chronological order and represented them on a map. Each location included a relevant symbol, the residents, and textual evidence.

9/1/23: Start planning your attire for Homecoming week. The themes for each day are listed in the picture and in this link!

9/1/23: Faculty, staff, students, and parents are invited to follow Toyota Wellspring Education Fund on Facebook and Instagram. By following, you can see some of the ways the fund is helping students in Northeast MS (and you may even want to give a shoutout to our PHS students when they are featured).

9/1/23: Mrs. Bean’s Algebra 2 class reviewed quadratic functions, systems of equations, systems of inequalities, and optimization in the library using stations. Students worked together to create graphs and solve problems.

8/30/23: It's time for the Class of 2024 to take drape or tuxedo pictures for the annual and the 2024 School Composite. Date: Tuesday, Sept. 12, 10:00am-5:00pm at Trent's Portrait Design. Learn more details inside this post, including booking your appointment time.

8/24/23: Over the summer, several PHS students took part in both academic and career camps where they participated in enrichment activities, explored career fields, and, for some, found out what it is like to live on a college campus. Just some of the programs PHS students took part in are the Yale Young Global Scholars Program at Yale University in Connecticut; Engineering Camp, Pharmacy Camp, and Robotics Camp at Ole Miss; Healing Hearts Healthcare Camp at Baptist Hospital in Oxford; Themis Law Camp at the Lee County Justice Center in Tupelo; and Base Camp Coding Academy's Pioneer Programmers Coding Camp in Water Valley.

8/24/23: Mrs. Jennings’s Biology 1 classes used scientific literature to determine if viruses are living or non-living.