Together We Build Strong Minds
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Covid-19 pandemic may have put the brakes on spring concerts, but the music teachers and student performers didn’t let that stop them from joining in song even though they were apart.
Several schools hosted virtual recitals that included dozens or even hundreds of participants in Zoom meetings listening to their … 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...
Herbert Hoover ES art teacher Justin Bursk and Neshaminy High School art teacher Terry O’Neill were both accepted into the Artists as Educators exhibition at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. This exhibit pairs an art educator’s artwork with the artwork of their students. The goal is to pair students … 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...
In 2004, a student in Stacey Flaville-Boop’s 8th-grade English class at Maple Point Middle School in Langhorne started working on an independent writing project. The aspiring author, Hank Curry, shared his novella one chapter at a time with his teacher, who offered constructive feedback and encouragement. Ms. Flaville-Boop, who is … 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...
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 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...
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...
