Together We Build Strong Minds
On April 10, 2019, students at Walter Miller Elementary School in Levittown enjoyed a visit from a very special green guest as a reward for being one of the top schools in the Philadelphia region in the 2018–2019 Phanatic About Reading contest. The students won the visit by accumulating hundreds … Read more...
On Monday, January 20, over 150 Maple Point Middle School students and a small group of Neshaminy High School students gathered in the cafeteria at Maple Point in Langhorne for the third annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service project to benefit Angels in Motion.
Students throughout the … Read more...
The Change It Up Club at Neshaminy High School has a very special mission — to bring students with very different needs, abilities and backgrounds together.
The club implements extracurricular activities to help those with special needs in the community. Sandi Spong, a Special Education teacher who is the club’s … Read more...
| On May 5, Philadelphia area TV viewers enjoyed a special live surprise presentation at Herbert Hoover Elementary School on the Good Day Philadelphia show. First-grade teacher Anna Marie Hunton was teaching in her classroom when she was surprised with the Elementary Teacher of the Year Grand Prize for the 2023 |
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded Neshaminy School District an Environmental Stewardship and Watershed Protection Grant (also known as the Growing Greener Grant) in the amount of $100,339.00.
This grant was established under the Commonwealth’s Environmental Stewardship and Watershed Protection Act (1999) with the goal … Read more...
A Neshaminy School District teacher was honored with an appearance in a national journal for music educators over the summer. Poquessing Middle School (Feasterville) music teacher Jason Leigh was among 11 teachers from across the country profiled in the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Choral Journal recently. He … Read more...
The first week of summer for the students at Neshaminy was not vacation time for educators throughout the district. Besides finishing up paperwork and preparing classrooms for the summer, staff members spent several days in professional development classes learning from each other and outside presenters on a wide variety of … Read more...
Even in the new age of social distancing, Neshaminy staff and students have found multiple ways to stay connected to learn, enjoy each others company and share creativity online. Online webinars and meetings, once the mainstay of start-up business and corporate teams, have become the “go-to” way for teams of … Read more...
A group of Neshaminy High School Drama students wrapped up their Counterparts in Hope Facebook Live performance series on May 26 with a unique show. Each week since the Covid-19 closure began in March, the students have been staging a series of individual performances online every Tuesday evening. Those performances … Read more...
On October 15, 2019, Maple Point MS science teachers Chuck Lumio and Dan Winter held a lunchtime conference call with the Senior Project Manager of the Amplify Science program through the University of California at Berkley. Neshaminy has been leading the way for the past several years integrating Next Generation … Read more...
Neshaminy District art teachers Terry O’Neill (Neshaminy HS) and Justin Bursk (Herbert Hoover ES) have been chosen to participate in the Exhibition Cross Pollination at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. They will each exhibit one of their artworks alongside one of their student’s artworks. … Read more...
For the past 70 years, Neshaminy High School students have staged an annual event so big, so unique, and so full of energy and life that it defies easy description. On the surface Gym Night is a two-day, three-show competition between red and blue – the school divided into … Read more...
Neshaminy received some help from a local foundation and supermarket chain in May for efforts to assist District families facing various economic challenges.
The Distrtict received $20,000 from the The Gene and Marlene Epstein Humanitarian Fund, which will be used to help Neshaminy students and their families who are in … Read more...
Neshaminy’s elementary schools held an online art show during the final weeks of school. Students were encouraged to create art and display it on Flipgrid, an online presentation tool that allowed them to share with their art with fellow students across the District. The show received over 300 submissions, which … Read more...
You may have heard the expression “art for the masses,” but Tawanka Elementary School in Langhorne created a work of art that included them in a single “living painting” in June. Daniel Dancer, a conceptual artist and educator from Oregon, visited the school for three days on June 3–5. Dancer … Read more...
The Bucks County Challenger Football & Cheerleading program is celebrating its 15th anniversary this fall. This 10-week program held at Harry E. Franks Stadium at Neshaminy High School on Sunday mornings brings together coaches and HS football players from Neshaminy, Pennsbury and other teams, cheerleaders, and volunteers who provide a … Read more...