Enjoy breakfast for lunch with waffles and scrambled eggs!
It's National Spaghetti Day!
Enjoy pasta and meat sauce to celebrate!
Support Bags of Hope and let Portillo's provide dinner for you on Thursday this week. Twenty percent of sales will benefit Bags of Hope between 5 and 8 p.m. at the 1155 Brook Forest Avenue, Shorewood location. #202proud
It's National Spaghetti Day! Enjoy pasta and meat sauce to celebrate!
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Happy 2025! #202proud
Flags will fly at half-staff until sunset on January 28, 2025 in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away Sunday. Flags were already at half-staff to honor Illinois State Police Trooper Clay Carns, who died in the line of duty on December 23. Flags are lowered for 30 days from the death of a President or former President.
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Meadow View Elementary School students enjoyed "Dancember." Kindergarteners through fifth graders focused on movement while learning traditional partner folk dances. Movement is a key component of art, music, and physical education. #202proud
Happy Kwanzaa, December 26 to January 1. #202proud
Happy Hanukkah! #202proud
We wish you a happy holiday season filled with peace, love, and kindness! Please enjoy this video of our Bonnie McBeth Blue Boat room students singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." https://youtu.be/yFZuKFaf-zw
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Tasting the world! Drauden Point Middle School families enjoyed tasting foods from around the world at the Multicultural Food Night on December 12.
Have a great winter break! See you on January 7, 2025!
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Wendy Mangan, Food Service Director for Aramark at District 202, delivers socks, hats, gloves, underwear, and scarves to Christina Edwards, District 202 Director of Health Services, for the Care Closet. Aramark staff from all 31 kitchens in District 202 donated the items. The Care Closet was established earlier this year to help district families who may need items such as clothing or school supplies.
Wesmere Elementary School students decorate homemade gingerbread men cookies with principal secretary Tammy Koz as a reward. Mrs. Koz made the cookies and frosting and helped students with their creations. #202proud
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The Plainfield School District Foundation for Excellence is pleased to announce a new scholarship for District 202 seniors named the AAA Abuzir Insurance Agency Scholarship.
The scholarship will award one $1,000 scholarship, for at least the next three years, to a District 202 senior who intends on attending trade school or going into a skills-based career, such as beauty school, real estate and insurance.
Interested in applying?
The new scholarship application along with all Foundation scholarships are available on the Foundation website at d202foundation.org.
Fifty District 202 students in the Functionally Based Instruction (FBI) program got in the holiday spirit on Wednesday, December 11 at Ira Jones Middle School.
Middle school students in the program from John F. Kennedy, Heritage Grove and Ira Jones attended the festivities.
Students enjoyed cookie decorating, craft making and games/sing-along activities.
In all, about 80 students, teachers, paraprofessionals and parents were present.
Everyone came together for lunch and then enjoyed a dance party, which included a special visit from Mr. and Mrs. Claus, facilitated by Ira Jones 8th graders.
Peer buddies from Ira Jones, along with several parents, helped during the festivities.
“Many of the students involved are participants in the Extended School Year (ESY) program and Special Olympics, making this gathering an excellent opportunity for them to connect and enjoy each other’s company,” Ira Jones FBI teacher Melissa Griffith said.
