The 2024 PFT/D150 Chess Championship is on Feb 17, 2024, and hosted by Lincoln K-8! This is the last tournament of the year, and PPS enrollment is required. This event is sponsored by the Greater Peoria Chess Foundation, and renewed memberships will be given to all participants! To register, visit https://www.pftd150chess.com
🏈In 1986, Peoria High alum, Darryl Ashmore was named the Peoria Journal Star's Football Player of the Year!🏈
Angel H. at Liberty Leadership was the first to receive a tablet for completing the Superintendent Challenge! Find out how your K-8 student can earn a Superintendent prize at https://www.peoriapublicschools.org/page/superintendents-challenge
Congratulations to the six 6th-8th grade PPS scholars who competed at the 2024 Mardi Gras Speech and Debate competition in Santa Ana, California!
🏀On February 6, 2020, the corner of Madison Park Terrace and Proctor Street in Peoria, where Nathan grew up, was named "Howard Nathan Jr. Court!" 🏀
⭐Franklin Primary 3rd and 4th grade students jumped at the opportunity to join Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Norfleet's Double Dutch Club! ⭐
🏈Richwoods graduate Sherrick McManis will be inducted into the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame on March 23, 2024!🏈
Happy National School Counseling Week! 📢Give your school counselor a shoutout in the comments! 📢
🔥Peoria High School graduate A.J Guyton was inducted into the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame on April 12, 2014! 🔥
🧢During Goodwin's senior year in 1971, he hit an epic home run, capturing the eye of 20 big league scouts! ⚾
🏀Before becoming one of Peoria High's greatest basketball players, Livingston played at Richwoods for two years!🏀
🍽️ The 5th opening of the Warrior Way Cafe was a remarkable success! 🍽️
🏀As a Manual High School senior, Williams was named Illinois Mr. Basketball in 1998! 🏀
✊🏿In February, Peoria Public Schools will be highlighting remarkable black alumni in sports and history, and classes offered on the black experience! ✊🏿
🏫🎤PPS's new teachers and their teacher mentors learned some remarkable strategies from the nationally recognized educator Kim Bearden yesterday! 🎤🏫
⭐56 Woodruff students started their remarkable futures today at their Intern Send-Off event! ⭐
♟️This Saturday, February 3, K-12 students are invited to the Mark Bills Winter Chess Classic! Register here: www.markbillschess.com! ♟
✊🏿In preparation for Black History Month, Mrs. Ware decorated the door to her classroom at Valeska Hinton Early Childhood Education Center! ✊
🚨Opportunity Alert🚨
4th-12th graders can register for Bradley University's DAPCEP Saturday courses to explore AI, robotics, aerodynamics, programming, coding, chemical and engineering, and more!🤖
Register today at https://www.dapcep.org/pathfinders-at-bradley-university/ !
👨🏾🍳The 5th opening of the Warrior Way Cafe is this Thursday, February 1st! Place your order by emailing warriorwaycafe@psd150.org by noon tomorrow!👩🏼🍳
