Author: Donna Holmes

Palisades High School is among only 373 schools in North America (U.S. and Canada) hon­ored by the College Board with place­ment on its 9th Annual AP® District Honor Roll.  To be includ­ed on the 9th Annual Honor Roll, Palisades had to increase the num­ber of stu­dents par­tic­i­pat­ing in Advanced … Read more...

SPECIAL THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED AND ATTENDED OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY TOWN HALL MEETING:

Held on Tuesday, November 13th, we had a num­ber of pro­fes­sion­als from the men­tal health and fam­i­ly health indus­try, as well as law enforce­ment, includ­ing Matt Weintraub, District Attorney for Bucks County and local … Read more...

SPECIAL THANKS TO PALISADES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION!

Our incom­ing kinder­garten stu­dents (Class of 2032) received FREE books at the kinder­garten ori­en­ta­tion vis­it in ear­ly June, thanks to a gen­er­ous dona­tion of $1,000 from the Palisades Community Foundation!  Bags for the books to be dis­trib­uted in were gra­cious­ly print­ed and donat­ed … Read more...

We were thrilled to have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to cel­e­brate the grad­u­a­tion of the Class of 2019 with our ele­men­tary stu­dents, staff and teach­ers dur­ing the 2nd Annual Senior Walk.  Our grad­u­at­ing stu­dents par­tic­i­pat­ed in this fun event hon­or­ing and con­grat­u­lat­ing them on their achieve­ment!   It is a real­ly fun for … Read more...

TINICUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CELEBRATES THE BIG 6–0!
Tinicum Elementary stu­dents and staff took a walk back in time to cel­e­brate 60 years of edu­ca­tion­al suc­cess at this school loca­tion.  Having opened in September of 1958, the school has seen many changes in the build­ing and in the way that cur­ricu­lum … Read more...

Last school year, Palisades Middle School was des­ig­nat­ed as a Don Eichhorn School to Watch.  PALMS joins an elite group of 41 schools in the Commonwealth of PA and 480 schools across the nation to receive such a pres­ti­gious hon­or. The Schools to Watch pro­gram, spon­sored by the National Forum … Read more...

Over the past twen­ty years, Team 103 has achieved a num­ber of awards and received a myr­i­ad of recog­ni­tions.  The team is a proud recip­i­ent of the Chairman’s Award in 2004, giv­en by Mr. Dean Kamen, the founder of FIRST.  It is the high­est hon­or giv­en to a team … Read more...

TINICUM ELEMENTARY IS RECOGNIZED AS A DISTINGUISHED SCHOOL!
Congratulations to Tinicum Elementary School’s teach­ers, staff, stu­dents and fam­i­lies for being named a Distinguished School by the PA Department of Education.  Tinicum Elementary School was rec­og­nized for being in the top 5% of Title 1 schools in the state for … Read more...

REGISTER NOW!  Sign up now for the 5K Family Walk/Run being held on Saturday, May 18th at PHS!  Don’t miss this fam­i­ly fun event!  Registration begins at 7:30AM and the race begins at 9AM.  Go to http://www.palisadescommunityfoundation.org/

Vendors or schools/community orga­ni­za­tions that are inter­est­ed in … Read more...

Over the next decade, sev­en in 10 new jobs in Pennsylvania will require work­ers to use a com­put­er and an esti­mat­ed 300,000 STEM jobs will be avail­able in the com­mon­wealth by 2026. To meet this pro­ject­ed demand, Governor Tom Wolf launched PAsmart, a new ini­tia­tive to invest in the com­mon­wealth’s … Read more...

Widener University, one of the nation’s pre­mier uni­ver­si­ties for civic engage­ment and applied lead­er­ship, in part­ner­ship with WCAU-TV NBC10, rec­og­nized Paige Kukowski as a win­ner of the Widener University High School Leadership Awards. To read the full press release, please click on the fol­low­ing link.

One of the key­stones … Read more...

Welcome to the Community School Programs for Palisades School District for Fall 2019!  A vari­ety of class­es are avail­able to you! 

Please com­plete the online reg­is­tra­tion form and pay using My School Bucks online — you may add mul­ti­ple class­es to your bas­ket.  If you pre­fer to pay by check, … Read more...

As many oth­er schools in Bucks County have done, Palisades School District took their class­es online start­ing Monday, March 30th.  Palisades had received a grant to insti­tute a one-to-one pro­gram a cou­ple of years ago which made the tran­si­tion more seam­less, espe­cial­ly for stu­dents in grades 6 through 12.  These … Read more...

At Springfield Elementary School in Palisades School District, three 2nd grade stu­dents and their fam­i­lies have been sell­ing home­made lemon­ade through­out this school year to raise mon­ey for local char­i­ties.  Gabrielle Holmes, Willa Mansfeld and Payson Godoy have been set­ting up their lemon­ade stand each month at movie nights which … Read more...