Author: Neshaminy School District

Students at Tawanka Elementary School in Feasterville have been sam­pling a vari­ety of fresh fruits and veg­eta­bles thanks to a part­ner­ship between phys­i­cal edu­ca­tion teacher Bob Wright and the Giant Food Store in Feasterville. Each month the stu­dents will receive a sam­ple of a dif­fer­ent fruit or veg­etable — start­ing … Read more...

By now, almost every­body has heard about or even been per­son­al­ly affect­ed by the fast-growing nation­wide opi­oid abuse cri­sis. This drug epi­dem­ic is unlike any oth­er that pre­ced­ed it, claim­ing vic­tims across demo­graph­ic, social and racial lines. Bucks County has been espe­cial­ly hard-hit, with 185 opioid-related deaths record­ed last year, … 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...

Snack time and sci­ence class have become one and the same for third grade class­es at Pearl S. Buck Elementary School in Levittown. Last year, each class­room obtained an AeroGarden Farm — a coffee-table sized unit that allows the user to grow veg­eta­bles and plants indoors with­out soil. This year, … Read more...

Four Neshaminy High School stu­dents trav­eled to Harrisburg January 8 with Environmental Science teacher Brian Suter to present their con­cept for a spot­ted lantern­fly edu­ca­tion­al mobile app. The group won a Bucks County hackathon com­pe­ti­tion held at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit in Doylestown recent­ly which earned them the trip … Read more...

In the spring of 2018, Farmers Insurance announced that Neshaminy High School was a final­ist in their $100,000 Dream Big Grant com­pe­ti­tion — one of only 15 in the nation and the only one in Pennsylvania.

The Neshaminy com­mu­ni­ty is ral­ly­ing to help to fin­ish the job and secure one of five … Read more...

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...

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...

On October 20, 2018, the Neshaminy High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) club host­ed the sec­ond annu­al 5K Run/Walk for Charity, this year to ben­e­fit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  This char­i­ty is the cur­rent Pennsylvania FBLA State Project.  Other FBLA chap­ters across the state are … Read more...

Early one September in the new school year, the ninth-grade AVID class­es at Neshaminy HS vis­it­ed Harry E. Franks Stadium to think ahead to the end of their senior year — and about what they might accom­plish to reach their dreams and goals at Neshaminy HS when they walk across … Read more...

Maple Point Middle School in Langhorne once again cel­e­brat­ed the US Constitution by invit­ing guest speak­ers to talk with stu­dents in each grade about their involve­ment with our guid­ing doc­u­ment in September and October. This speak­er series has become a school tra­di­tion, dur­ing which stu­dents are able to con­nect con­cept … Read more...

On October 25, a group of Neshaminy School District teach­ers and admin­is­tra­tors vis­it­ed sev­er­al class­rooms at Maple Point Middle School, then gath­ered in a near­by con­fer­ence room to dis­cuss their obser­va­tions as part of Instructional Rounds.

This pro­gram, start­ed last year at Neshaminy, offers an oppor­tu­ni­ty for con­struc­tive dia­logue on … Read more...

Over 200 stu­dents gave up part of their Martin Luther King hol­i­day Monday, January 21 to hon­or his lega­cy by par­tic­i­pat­ing in a unique Day of Service project. Students from Maple Point Middle School in Langhorne and some from Neshaminy High School spent the morn­ing com­pil­ing 1,600 ‘bless­ing bags’ from … Read more...