✅ Finals
✅ Dress-Up Days
✅ Snowball Smash
✅ Festive halls
Wishing everyone joy this holiday season! ❄️🎄

We are excited to share that Representative Sam Graves 🇺🇸📞 contacted Palmyra High School senior, Ashton Lovegreen today to let him know he has received a nomination to the United States Naval Academy ⚓🎓!
This prestigious nomination means Ashton is now eligible to complete and submit his application 📝✨ to the Naval Academy — a huge and competitive step in the process. He will be notified of the next steps in the spring as admissions decisions are made.
We are so proud of Ashton and this incredible achievement! Way to represent Palmyra High School! 🐾💪

📅 Friday, December 19th
🕧 1:00 pm Early Dismissal
📅 December 22nd - January 5th
☃️ No School — Enjoy you break Panthers!
📅 Monday, January 5th
📚 No School — Teacher Professional Development Day
📅 Tuesday, January 6th
🏫 School Resumes
Thank you to Palmyra Middle School student, Kinsley for providing the design for our NO SCHOOL graphic! Great work Kinsley!
Due to weather adjustments, game times have changed:
🧡 Palmyra Girls will now play at 6:00 pm FRIDAY in the Monroe City Middle School Gym.
🖤 Palmyra Boys will compete in the Championship Game at 7:30 pm FRIDAY in the Monroe City High School Gym.
Let’s pack the stands and cheer for the Palmyra Panthers! 🧡🖤
#WeArePalmyra


🚗 Do you need to Take Your Driver’s Test? Here’s Where You Can Go! 🚦
If you’re planning to take your written or driving test soon, here is the Missouri Driver Examination schedule per location.
📍 Hannibal –M-TUES-FRI 8:00-4:30pm
📍 Palmyra – 5th THURSDAY 8:45- 4:00pm
📍 Monroe City– 4th THURSDAY 8:45-4:00pm
📍 Paris- 2nd THURSDAY 9:15-4:00pm
👉👉 For full details on required documents, visit http://bit.ly/4oKLb2D

Join the Palmyra Middle School and Palmyra High School band and choir for their winter concert on Sunday, December 7th at 2 PM in the Palmyra High School gym!
🎺🥁🎤🎼 Come support our talented student musicians! 🧡🖤



Today, three of our Panthers officially took the next step in their academic and athletic journeys by signing their National Letters of Intent!
✨ Sophie – Cheer at William Woods University
⚾️ Raeson – Baseball at John Wood Community College
⛳️ Skeeter – Golf at Mineral Area College
We are so proud of these student-athletes and all the hard work, dedication, and Panther spirit they have shown.
Congratulations to each of them as they prepare to compete at the collegiate level! 🧡🖤🎓



School will not be in session Tuesday, December 2nd.
Palmyra High School students will not attend Vo-Tech.
A huge thank-you to Brylee for submitting the first middle school entry in our Snow Day Announcement Challenge—your Panther snow-mascot graphic is purrrrrfection! ❄️🐾

Palmyra R-1 School will not be in session, Monday, December 1st.
Palmyra High School Students will not attend Vo-Tech.
Thank you Hannah for being the first entry in our No School Day announcement challenge! Great job!

Update: School will NOT be in session Monday. Hard surface only plan will be in place when school resumes.
Palmyra R-1 and Vo-Tech classes at Hannibal plan to be in session Monday, December 1st. Buses will run on hard surfaces only, Monday thru Wednesday this week.


We want to see our students’ creativity over Thanksgiving break! We are looking for a fun, school-appropriate winter weather meme, graphic, or drawing created by our students to use in future snow day announcements. ⛄📢
Does your Panther have a great idea that will make us laugh, make us smile, and show off Palmyra pride! 🧡🖤
Families, submissions can be turned in to your student’s school office or emailed to Amber@ summersa@palmyrar1.us by Friday, December 5. We can’t wait to see all the creativity and look forward to sharing on future snow days!

❄️🏀 WINTER PEP ASSEMBLY! 🧡🖤
STUCO brought the energy today with our Winter Sports Pep Assembly! The band kicked things off with the National Anthem and school song while Cheer, Poms, and Pete the Panther pumped up the crowd! 🎶📣🐾
Students battled it out in floor games, and the seniors came out on top! 🏆
Pep Band, Quiz Bowl, Poms, Cheer, Basketball, and Wrestling teams were all introduced and celebrated.
A special shoutout to Coach Hutchings, who was a great sport and kissed a frog after raising the most funds for City of Refuge in Columbia, MO! 🐸👏
The assembly wrapped up with a school-wide line dance—what a way to kick off winter sports season!
Good luck to all of our athletes competing this winter, especially:
🏀 Girls & Boys Basketball traveling to Clopton tonight
🤼♀️ Girls Wrestling heading to the Wright City Tournament tomorrow
Let’s go Panthers! 🧡🖤










🔥 Lady Panther Wrestling! 🔥
Season Opener:
📍 Location: Wright City High School
📅 Date: Saturday, November 22

🏀 Varsity Basketball Schedule 2025-26 🏀
First game of the varsity basketball season starts tonight! 🐾
📍 Location: Clopton HS
⏰ Time: Girls @ 5:30- Boys @ 7:00pm

Audrey – 1st Team
Leah – 2nd Team
Delaina – 2nd Team
Trigg – 2nd Team
Wesley – 2nd Team
We are proud of your hard work and dedication! 🧡🖤

🧡 School is IN session Monday and Tuesday.
🖤 Thanksgiving Break begins Wednesday.
We hope everyone enjoys the holiday with family and friends!
📅 Classes resume on Monday, December 1st.

Our 9th and 10th grade Quiz Bowl team competed in the Huck Finn Tournament in Hannibal on Saturday and brought home 3rd place with an impressive 6-2 record!
A big congratulations to our All-Tournament team members:
🏅 Matthew – 3rd overall individual
🏅 Eli – 10th overall individual
Way to represent, Panthers! 🧡🖤


📅 Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025
📍 Location: PHS Gym
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM
Come out and show your support as we introduce our winter sports teams!

