Interboro schools report holiday events, student achievements and community support

School leaders at the Jan. 15 Interboro Board of School Directors meeting summarized December events across district schools, highlighted student achievements and thanked community partners who supported families during the holiday season.

The reports described a range of student activities: kindergarten Polar Express events with a Santa visit and story time; holiday concerts by elementary and middle school bands and choruses; a cyber-safety assembly run by a district attorney’s office detective at Norwood School; visiting educational exhibits, including a traveling zoo from Barnhill Preserve; PBIS spirit activities and rewards; and school-run holiday shops and vendor fairs that allowed families to shop locally.

At Crossway Park School and Prospect Park School staff described concerts and community traditions, including a card-delivery tradition in Prospect Park. Tenetland School reported a variety of student events including a glow dodgeball tournament and a pancake breakfast. At the high school, competitive cheer advanced to state finals for its division (competition scheduled for Jan. 29–30 in Reading), students participated in a mock crime-scene exercise with local police for forensic classes, and job-shadowing opportunities in logistics were organized for high school students.

Student-led and service activities also received notice. The high school student council organized a canned food drive and donated material to a local charity; the transcript recorded the donation amount in an unclear phrase described as "6 £100 of food" and did not provide a clear numeric explanation. The winter blood drive was reported to have involved approximately 60 volunteers and a goal of 40 units; the report said the drive collected 54 "units/products" from 46 successful donors and broke that down as 38 full blood units and 16 described as "power" donations in the meeting report.

Superintendent remarks and community support

The superintendent thanked the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Blackjack Kia division, for providing 29 turkey dinners to district families over Christmas and thanked staff who assisted with distribution. The superintendent also acknowledged an 8th-grade student at Prospect Park School, Sam Lipitner, who provided weather updates that the superintendent said were used as part of the district’s school-closure decision-making process during a recent snowstorm.

Why it matters

These program reports show ongoing extracurricular, instructional and community-engagement activity across Interboro schools and note community partnerships that supplied direct family support during the holidays. Several items — including the blood-drive totals and the canned-food donation quantity — were reported with wording or numbers that were not fully clear in the transcript and are noted as such.

Ending

The report concluded with the board offering thanks to staff and volunteers; the meeting then moved to routine board business and votes.