Category: Neshaminy School District

Teachers secure $100k DEP grant to repair natural area by Neshaminy HS
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded Neshaminy School District an Environmental Stewardship and Watershed Protection Grant (also known as the Growing Greener Grant) in the amount of $100,339.00.
This grant was established under the Commonwealth’s Environmental Stewardship and Watershed Protection Act (1999) with the goal … Read more...

AVID students preview graduation day
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...

School begins military service information project
Students and staff at Poquessing Middle School in Feasterville have started a multimedia project that aims to educate students and the community about the opportunities and realities of serving in the U.S. military. As part of this project, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy visited Poquessing Middle School on May 20 for … Read more...

Produce donation expanding food horizons
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 is Phanatic about Reading
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...

Neshaminy business club sponsors charity run
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...

Neshaminy is leading the way with Amplify Science
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...

Poquessing Select Choir featured at conferences
The Poquessing Middle School (Feasterville) Select Choir and director Jason Leigh received some exciting news in June — their group will be performing at the American Choir Directors Association Eastern Region Conference in Rochester, NY in March, 2020. Poquessing was the only middle school chosen by audition for this honor, … Read more...

Military Commitment Ceremony goes on tour
The annual Military Commitment Ceremony at Neshaminy High School was moved online this year with a video containing pre-recorded speeches and a reading of names to honor ten students who will be serving our country following graduation. Speakers included Neshaminy High School Principal Ryan Staub, Assistant Principal Tom Magdelinskas, … Read more...

Community chips in to help student support efforts
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...

School celebrates 20 years of honoring veterans
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...

Online Learning at Neshaminy? We Got This!
The COVID-19 pandemic may have put the brakes on a traditional school year at Neshaminy, but the learning continued almost immediately as the District quickly moved the curriculum online.
With little warning, all Bucks County schools closed on Friday, March 13. Shortly after, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf ordered all schools … Read more...

#StandUp Neshaminy launches anti-opioid campaign
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...

Sixth-grade class reunites after 47 years
On January 26, 2019, 17 of 21 students from retired Neshaminy School District teacher Harry Myrga’s 1972–1973 sixth-grade class at Everitt Elementary School returned to the area for a reunion held at the Attleboro Community in Langhorne. They came from as far away as Washington state, Arizona, Texas and Israel. … Read more...

Neshaminy drama students stage an original play online
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...