Author: Gary Weckselblatt

The Quakertown Community School District will be hon­ored by The Peace Center for imple­ment­ing its diver­si­ty and inclu­sion pro­gram for ele­men­tary school stu­dents, “Celebrating Me, Celebrating You,” at a district-wide level.

“It’s the only dis­trict in Bucks County to do so,” said Kate Whitman, assis­tant direc­tor for The Peace … Read more...

Students from Pfaff and Richland recent­ly par­tic­i­pat­ed in the STEM Design Challenge at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit.

Zach Garger, a K‑12 Instructional Coach and the Quakertown Community School District’s Math and Science Content Specialist, said the event is a “unique expe­ri­ence” for ele­men­tary school stu­dents.

“It gives kids at … Read more...

Eleven Quakertown Community High School stu­dents earned the AP Capstone Diploma™ dur­ing the 2020–21 school year. The pro­gram helps stu­dents devel­op crit­i­cal think­ing, research, col­lab­o­ra­tion, and pre­sen­ta­tion skills that are crit­i­cal to aca­d­e­m­ic success.

The excep­tion­al stu­dents are 2021 grad­u­ates Rachel X. Anderson, Jonas Moll, and Ava T. Rossini, … Read more...

Quakertown Elementary School held a food dri­ve called Bring Color to Our Community that allowed stu­dents to be cre­ative. Each grade received a col­or of the rain­bow and had a goal of find­ing food of that col­or.

If the box of mac­a­roni, for exam­ple, was blue that worked for the … Read more...

As she watched the Pennsylvania State SkillsUSA Virtual Conference at home on YouTube, Abby Jacobes lis­tened as the win­ners of the Welding Sculpture Competition were announced.

When she heard third place fol­lowed by sec­ond place and her name hadn’t been called, Abby fig­ured, “Okay, I had a good run. I … Read more...

Quakertown Elementary School raised a record $12,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

During the six-week fundrais­er for the LLS Hero Squad Program, which rais­es mon­ey for child­hood blood can­cer patients, QE, with few­er than 300 stu­dents, shat­tered its goal of $2,021.

“This has cer­tain­ly been a sil­ver … Read more...

After each new grad­u­ate walks the stage to receive their diplo­ma, Superintendent Dr. Bill Harner meets them at the bot­tom of the steps to shake their hand.

On Friday night he shook the hand of near­ly 385 grad­u­ates at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena. As he held the hand of Alexandra Brandis, … Read more...

About 250 stu­dents and 25 teach­ers and admin­is­tra­tors packed the Quakertown Community High School cafe­te­ria this morn­ing and heard from a dynam­ic speak­er before head­ing out to var­i­ous parts of Bucks County and the Lehigh Valley to serve their fel­low cit­i­zens.

The district’s sec­ond Martin Luther King Jr. Day of … Read more...

The mes­sage to more than 400 Quakertown grads: “Your suc­cess is my suc­cess, and my suc­cess is your success.” 

After 16 months of being kept apart and some­times feel­ing iso­lat­ed by a pan­dem­ic ter­ri­bly dif­fi­cult to nav­i­gate, Quakertown Community High School grad­u­ates heard how the resilience and com­mit­ment they dis­played … Read more...

Inspired by ELD teacher Alaina Wert, par­ents were helped with fill­ing out required school forms and oth­er impor­tant applications.

The Quakertown Community School District held an English Language Development (ELD) Resource Night for fam­i­lies of English learn­ers Wednesday night, and by all accounts it was a huge success.… Read more...

It was toward the end of her Advanced Placement biol­o­gy class and Emily Maceri was check­ing her can­di­date por­tal with the United States Military Academy. When she saw the large green box that con­firmed her appoint­ment, a huge smile broke out on her face. 

A good friend sit­ting next to her … Read more...

On Wednesday after­noon and evening, High School Band teacher Frank Parker’s eyes were glued to his tele­vi­sion at the shock­ing visions of a mob vio­lent­ly tak­ing over the Capitol. The next morn­ing, as his Wind Symphony class began, he asked stu­dents if there was any­thing they’d like to talk about.… Read more...

Two sopho­more stu­dents at Quakertown Community High School have been nom­i­nat­ed for the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) schol­ar­ship. The award comes with an invi­ta­tion to attend a two-day lead­er­ship sem­i­nar with the orga­ni­za­tion, designed to give stu­dents the tools they need to turn their ideas into action … Read more...

No mat­ter the art assign­ment, there’s a good chance that if Kenzie Sawadski is involved, her cre­ation will stand out.

Just ask her art teach­ers. “She’s incred­i­bly moti­vat­ed and tal­ent­ed,” said Laura Christine of Quakertown Community High School. “Kenzie is extreme­ly con­sci­en­tious and is a very hard work­er.”

Kate Fetterolf … Read more...

Since the clos­ing of school build­ings on March 13th, Quakertown Community High School senior Kaitlyn Zajkowski has missed her time in the band room where she could “find my peace” play­ing her favorite musi­cal instru­ment, the marim­ba.

During the quar­an­tine from the COVID-19 Pandemic, she dis­cussed options with her par­ents, … Read more...

Quakertown Community High School’s stu­dent sec­tion, band, and cheer squad cre­ate a com­mu­ni­ty spir­it at Friday night foot­ball games that is the envy of vis­it­ing schools.

The Quakertown Community School District has devel­oped a for­mu­la that doesn’t need a score­board to prove it’s a win­ner. On Friday nights at Alumni … Read more...