Category: Neshaminy School District

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

On October 25, a group of Neshaminy School District teach­ers and admin­is­tra­tors vis­it­ed sev­er­al class­rooms at Maple Point Middle School, then gath­ered in a near­by con­fer­ence room to dis­cuss their obser­va­tions as part of Instructional Rounds.

This pro­gram, start­ed last year at Neshaminy, offers an oppor­tu­ni­ty for con­struc­tive dia­logue on … 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...

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...

Thanks to a grant‐funded ini­tia­tive from the Bucks County Audubon Society, a group of 5th‐grade girls at Poquessing Middle School in the Neshaminy School District are spend­ing some of their after­noons explor­ing sci­ence, nature and physics dur­ing STEAM Club meet­ings. This pilot con­cept activ­i­ty is in its first year and … Read more...

NBC10 Meterologist Brittney Shipp vis­it­ed Tawanka Elementary School to read her new children’s book and see the student’s project‐based learn­ing efforts.

Her orig­i­nal vis­it in March was post­poned, not iron­i­cal­ly, by one of the nor’easter storms that moved up the east coast caus­ing a school can­cel­la­tion. But the stu­dents of … Read more...

Neshaminy High School senior Catie Turner had a dream to com­pete on the ABC‐TV reboot of the pop­u­lar show American Idol, and she didn’t let a lit­tle thing like rejec­tion from her first audi­tion stop her from ful­fill­ing that dream.

With an ener­getic, quirky style and a singing voice that … Read more...