The month of April is National Autism Awareness month. At PBL Junior High School, the students learned about Autism during their advisory cool tool on Wednesday, April 5th. The junior high staff wore their Autism Awareness or Be Kind shirts to show their support!
Due to the forecasted weather that begins later this afternoon and continues throughout the evening, PBL is cancelling all afternoon practices and events. This includes rescheduling tonight's performance of You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, which will now occur at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday and 3:00 p.m. on Sunday. The Saturday performance will begin with the Junior High Musical Showcase Concert.
On Friday, March 31st the 6th grade and 7th/8th grade choirs will be performing a Musical Showcase Concert in conjunction with the High School's production of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown in the PBL High School Gymnasium. The JH will be singing at 7:00pm that night with the High School Musical to follow. The high school will also have another performance of their musical on Saturday, April 1st. If you are coming for the just the JH Musical Showcase concert you do not have pay. If you are staying for the musical the admission fees apply. Please come and support the arts in both the junior high and high school.
The PBL JH 5Essentials survey for parents is open until Friday, March 31st. As of today we have a parent response rate of 18% & our goal is to have 20% or more parents complete the survey. The survey is located at: https://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/?target_name=parent.
PBL Junior High School participated in Say Something Week on March 13-March 17. Say Something Week was all about learning what it means to be an Upstander. An Upstander can be defined as a person who speaks or acts in support of an individual or cause, particularly someone who intervenes on behalf of a person being attacked or bullied. Our students reflected on who was an Upstander in their lives and wrote thank you notes to their Upstander. Say Something Week was a huge success!
Congratulations to all PBL Junior High 3rd quarter honor roll students.
Here are the junior high school students of the week for 3.13-3.17. Congrats to all!
The Scholastic Bowl competed last night at St. Pauls Lutheran School. The Scholastic Bowl will have a home match on Tuesday, March 28th at 4:00 PM against Tri-Point Junior High.
Here are the junior high students of the week for 3.6-3.10. Great job everyone!
Here are the themed dress up days for the Junior High "Say Something Week" starting Monday, March 13, 2023.
We are currently having trouble with the junior high phone system. We have placed a phone call to our service provider to correct the issue. If you do need to call the junior high please call 217-379-9205.
BREAKING NEWS! Mrs. Williams and Ms. Lampert's 8th grade ELA students have become investigative journalists! As you walk around the junior high school, you can find the 8th graders conducting interviews, gathering data, and recording their news broadcasts!
During the week of March 13th-March 17th PBL JH will be participating in Say Something Awareness Week alongside thousands of other schools across the country. Students will participate in a week of activities that will raise awareness about how to create a safer, healthier school, and build a culture where students and staff lookout for each other. We will be focusing on how to build a community of upstanders, and how to acknowledge the trusted adults in our lives.
PBL JH Yearbooks for the 2022-2023 school year can be ordered online at https://inter-state.com/YearbookEntry/72791T. There are also forms for cash or check orders in the main office that students can pick up. All orders are due by Friday, April 21st.
On Friday, March 3rd, our Panther Partners went to Old Orchard Lanes. Panther Partners is a mentoring program between the junior high and high school where high school students mentor one or two junior high students. The high school mentors build relationships with the junior high students and help them with homework, peer relationships, organizational skills, along with many other things. We would like to give a shoutout to all of the teachers and counselors that made this outing possible! Click the link for more pictures from this great day! 🐾
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In 7th grade social studies last week students participated in an Escape Room and cracked George Washington’s spy code. Students learned how Washington organized one of the largest and intricate spy rings in history. While studying the American Revolution the classes went in depth to solve clues left from the past to crack the revolutionary code.
This week 6th Grade Science had a special visitor with Captain Tim Rehg from Spirit Airlines. Captain Rehg shared about his career, answered questions for students, & brought the relevance of his career to our Flight & Space course. We are clear for takeoff & thanks Captain Rehg.
Good luck to the PBL JH 7th & 8th Grade Volleyball Teams on Thursday against Prairie Central Junior High. The matches will begin at 4:30pm in Forrest, IL. Attached is a picture of the 8th grade volleyball team from the final home match last night. Good luck Panthers-
PBL JH Band Students performed in the Band Solo & Ensemble Contest on Friday night & Saturday morning this past weekend. Mr. Breen, PBL JH Band Director, shared that all students did a great job preparing & performing the musical pieces for judges & families to view.
The mission in 6th grade science with Mrs. Pondel is to plan a manned trip to Mars. This week we studied what and how astronauts eat. We also learned that in space, astronauts need 25% more calories than we do on Earth! On Friday we made “astronaut food”! (adding water to dry milk and dry pudding mix). Thank you Mrs. Pondel for such an engaging unit for our students!
