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Students across Colonial School District recognized for arts, competitions and community service
Summary
Student representatives and school leaders reported arts exhibits, FBLA competition success, community service on MLK Day, music and choral achievements, and multiple school fundraisers and kindness initiatives during the Feb. 20 board meeting.
Student representatives and school leaders used the Feb. 20 Colonial School District board meeting to highlight a range of student achievements and community-service projects across the district.
Plymouth White Marsh High School (PWHS) reported student council Valentine's activities that raised funds for a scholarship, student artwork to be presented at a Tri-County exhibit in Potsdam, and 26 students qualifying to represent Region 20 at the Future Business Leaders of America state conference in Hershey. PWHS also reported six first-place awards in Region 20 categories including graphic design, personal finance, parliamentary procedure, network design, management information systems and healthcare administration.
PWHS National Art Honor Society organized an art-supply drive for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) using an Amazon wish list; donated items included crayons, paints, colored pencils, activity books and clay intended for CHOP's creative arts therapy department. Two PWHS juniors qualified for district and region orchestras, including PMEA Region 4 Orchestra festival dates in Philadelphia.
At Colonial Middle School (CMS), an in-service day focused on artificial intelligence in education and the district's newly approved board policy and guiding principles for AI; teachers and administrators led sessions about classroom and curriculum practices. CMS also reported success in the Calculusolve competition (participation: 55 elementary competitors and 138 middle school competitors) and an eighth-grade field trip to Montgomery County Community College.
Elementary schools reported a range of activities: Read for the House fundraising for the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House; a PTO spaghetti dinner and special-persons night at Ridge Park Elementary; a Civil Rights Assembly presented by Young Audiences of New Jersey at Colonial Elementary; a community unity walk planned to culminate Black History Month activities; and a Super Bowl canned-food drive at White Marsh Elementary that collected donations for the Colonial Neighborhood Council.
The board recognized faculty and parent organizations that organized these activities. Several student and staff names were mentioned during the reports; specific achievement counts and event dates were provided where available.
