\u2022 Congratulations to Nathaniel Pick,<\/b> the Pacific Beach Middle School (PBMS) school-wide spelling bee winner! The winning word was “hexagonal.” Second place went to Evette Tagafau. Nathaniel will be going to the district-level competition, where he will compete to win an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. to represent Pacific Beach Middle School in the national spelling bee. \u2022\u00a0PBMS will sponsor a food drive<\/b> to benefit CareHouse, a center for homeless youth, from Feb. 14 to 21.\u00a0Please drop off non-perishable food in the school office at 4676 Ingraham St.\u00a0 \u2022 PBMS is having its mid-year International Baccalaureate Excellence Awards Ceremony<\/b> on Feb. 23, beginning at 7:30 a.m. to recognize students who are excelling in academics and citizenship. \u2022 Friends of Pacific Beach Secondary Schools\u2019 (FOPBSS) silent auction “Blues By the Bay”<\/b> will be held Sunday, May 22\u00a0at the Mission Beach Woman\u2019s Club from 5 to 9\u00a0p.m.\u00a0 FOPBSS is a non-profit organization supporting Pacific Beach Middle School and Mission Bay High School.\u00a0This event is\u00a0our largest fundraiser of the year and\u00a0funds many programs that enhance the educational experience of our students \u2014 from floating marine science labs to after-school choir programs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Each year, FOPBSS strives to offer excellent auction packages to our guests and appreciates donations of services, certificates, merchandise or funds to the auction.\u00a0 No donation is too small. Contact mbhsfriends@yahoo.com. All donations are tax-deductible and 100 percent of the proceeds fund our school programs. \u2014 Jennifer Tandy<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2022 Congratulations to Nathaniel Pick, the Pacific Beach Middle School (PBMS) school-wide spelling bee winner! The winning word was “hexagonal.” Second place went to Evette Tagafau. Nathaniel will be going to the district-level competition, where he will compete to win an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. to represent Pacific Beach Middle School in the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":292030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"Education notebook","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}