News from District 153

Our friends at the Village of Homewood Police Department have named the winners of their temporary emblem contest. Artists and their designs are below. These designs will adorn three Homewood police cars so keep an eye out! Congratulations, ladies!

District 153 is excited to announce that we have four winners of this year’s “Those Who Excel” awards. The Illinois State Board of Education presents these awards to recognize excellence in education.

All this month, James Hart's Panther TV will be creating video segments celebrating 100 years of national observances of Black history and culture. See them all right here!

The annual Illinois 5Essentials Parent Survey is now open! Click here or picture to the left for your chance to provide important feedback about your student's school. Survey is open until March 13th.

Have a student in more than one 153 school? Fill out a survey for each school!

February 5th marked the 100th day of school! Willow School’s centenarians, construction crews, and time travelers from the Roaring Twenties celebrated being 100 days smarter.

We are so proud of Willow Wildcats Sonny Castillo-Ballard, Toby Halbert, Wynter McKenzie-Copening, and Logan McKeon! These four Special Olympics Young Athletes participated in the basketball skills competition at Manteno High School on Jan. 31st. And we loved the signs their peer partners made to cheer them on! Way to go, Wildcats!

Congratulations to the James Hart 7th-Grade Boys Basketball Team! They ended their season as Regional Champs!

Operations Snowflake (for grades 7&8) and Snowflurry (for grades 5 & 6) are wonderful one-day programs at HF High School where kids learn more about themselves while making new friends and having fun! This year, the fun is on Saturday, March 14th!

Slots are still available for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders! (Sorry, 5th-grade is full.)