Author: Neshaminy School District

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...

Shortly after the ter­ror­ist attacks on September 11, 2001, a group of teach­ers at Maple Point Middle School in the Neshaminy School District got togeth­er to dis­cuss an idea. With Veterans Day approach­ing, they thought that hold­ing a cer­e­mo­ny to hon­or America’s mil­i­tary would be a good way to teach … 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...

Neshaminy schools cel­e­brat­ed Constitution Day on Monday, September 17 with sev­er­al activ­i­ties. That date is the 231st anniver­sary of the sign­ing of the U.S. Constitution, and any school receiv­ing fed­er­al fund­ing is man­dat­ed to teach the his­to­ry and con­tent of the Constitution around that date.

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...

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...

Each year, the stu­dents of Maple Point Middle School in Middletown Township are treat­ed to a les­son about the United Constitution from those who actu­al­ly work and use it every day. The school invites a series of speak­ers to share knowl­edge of spe­cif­ic aspects of the Constitution, so by the … Read more...

The Neshaminy Education Foundation (NEF) has donat­ed $18,000 to Neshaminy School District to fund the pur­chase of 435 blue­tooth micro­phone head­sets. The recharge­able units clip on to the users ear, and will make it eas­i­er for teach­ers to com­mu­ni­cate with their stu­dents who are in vir­tu­al learn­ing class­es … Read more...

This hol­i­day sea­son, Neshaminy School District is very proud that art­work cre­at­ed by our tal­ent­ed stu­dents was cho­sen to be rep­re­sent­ed in the White House Christmas dis­plays in Washington D.C. The theme for 2020 was “America Celebrates,” and the dec­o­ra­tions appeared on trees on the Ellipse inside President’s Park as … Read more...

Forty sev­en eighth-grade stu­dents from Maple Point Middle School accom­pa­nied a large group of vet­er­ans to Washington D.C. on October 1 for the Bucks County Tour of Honor. The Tour offers vet­er­ans the oppor­tu­ni­ty to vis­it the war memo­ri­als in our nations’s cap­i­tal dur­ing a day trip, fol­lowed by a … 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...

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...