The Polo Board of Education Meeting has been moved to Monday, May 23rd, 2022 due to not having a quorum on Wednesday, May 18th, 2022. The meeting on Monday, May 23rd will be in the library at Polo Community Unit High School at 6:00pm.
2nd grade has been busy learning about the butterfly life cycle. They were able to watch them grow from larvae, to pupa, to butterfly before realizing them today. They invited kindergarten to join the release as they’ve been visiting the 2nd grade classroom to watch the changes.
Junior high track pizza party is tomorrow after school. Please return uniforms and have students bring in $3 to help cover the cost of the pizza.
Maxon's Riverboat Cruise field trip permission slips are due on Wednesday. An email was sent this afternoon to students and parents of those who still need to turn theirs in. A copy of the permission slip was included in the email in case one didn't make it home.
Whiteside Area Career Center is still giving away computers to those that qualify. If you are interested please sign up through https://pcsrefurbished.com/event/registration
Polo HS Baseball and Softball games scheduled tonight 5/13 at Forreston has a TIME CHANGE to a 4:00 start time. Bus time is 2:40.
PCHS Senior class of 2022 Last day of school. Good luck seniors we will miss you!
COVID Update for the week of 5/9/2022.
Students:
1 positive for the week. This puts us at 102 positive student cases for the year.
Staff :
3 positives from last Friday until today. This puts us at 29 positive staff members for the year.
Tonight our third, fourth, and fifth grade students serenaded us at their Spring Concert.
Congratulations to Devin Rucker for being selected as Student of the Month in April in Digital Media arts
Congratulations to Brogan Shank for being selected as WACC March Student of the Month in Automotive Technology.
On Friday we were able to celebrate these fine young students at the Illinois Principal Association awards brunch. We are so proud of these 5th, 8th, and high school seniors.
5/9/22: Today is the last day for junior high track practice. Tomorrow is the Route 72 Conference track meet in Oregon. The pizza party has been moved from Monday, May 16th to Tuesday, May 17th at 3:30. Please return track uniforms at that time.
Polo baseball game scheduled for tomorrow 5/7 location has been changed from Polo to West Carroll in Thompson. Game is at 11:00 am.
High school staff all wearing the Teacher Appreciation shirts today.
Polo HS JV Softball tonight 5/6 at home against Oregon has been canceled.
Thank you to Jeanette Linker for the generous gift cards to Polo Fresh Food Mart for all of our PCHS staff!
Congratulations to Aplington's IPA winners, Aiden Messer and Laynie Mandrell. Aiden and Laynie, along with their parents, Mr. Downey, and other students from Northern Illinois will attend the Illinois Principal Association brunch this morning at the Elks Lodge in Dixon. Enjoy!
Congratulations to these students for receiving a Positive Referral in the month of April.
Our SCHOOL AND OUR TEACHERS ARE OUR MOST VALUABLE COMMUNITY ASSET - On behalf of Jeanette Linker & COUNTRY Financial a $20.00 Polo Grocery Gift Card was donated to each Aplington staff member.
Jeanette thank you so much for this generous gift!
Polo Baseball game scheduled for tonight 5/5 at AFC has been canceled.