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
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!" 🏀
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
🏈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! 📢
⭐Franklin Primary 3rd and 4th grade students jumped at the opportunity to join Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Norfleet's Double Dutch Club! ⭐
🔥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!🏀
✊🏿In February, Peoria Public Schools will be highlighting remarkable black alumni in sports and history, and classes offered on the black experience! ✊🏿
🏀As a Manual High School senior, Williams was named Illinois Mr. Basketball in 1998! 🏀
🍽️ The 5th opening of the Warrior Way Cafe was a remarkable success! 🍽️
✊🏿In preparation for Black History Month, Mrs. Ware decorated the door to her classroom at Valeska Hinton Early Childhood Education Center! ✊
♟️This Saturday, February 3, K-12 students are invited to the Mark Bills Winter Chess Classic! Register here: www.markbillschess.com! ♟
⭐56 Woodruff students started their remarkable futures today at their Intern Send-Off event! ⭐
🏫🎤PPS's new teachers and their teacher mentors learned some remarkable strategies from the nationally recognized educator Kim Bearden yesterday! 🎤🏫
🚨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/ !
💻Students in the Information Technology/Coding program will work towards becoming a web developer or a computer support specialist! 💻
🍃Woodruff Career and Technical Center's 545 solar panels give Renewable Energy students first-hand experience in clean energy maintenance and production. 🍃
