The 7th & 8th grade boys’ basketball games scheduled for Tuesday, December 14th at Hoopeston Area Middle School have been canceled.
The PBL 8th grade boys’ basketball team will be playing Prairie Central for the TCC tournament title on Thursday, December 9th at 7:45 in Cissna Park! Go, Panthers!! 🐾🏀
Winter Concert: Our Band & Chorus programs have been making preparations for the upcoming Winter Concert at the PBL High School Gymnasium on Sunday, December 5th. Below is the schedule for the different performance times.
Kindergarten – 1st Grade Concert will be at 2:00pm
2nd-3rd Grade Concert will be at 3:00pm
4th-5th Grade Concert will be at 4:00pm
6th-8th Grade Concert will be at 5:00pm
○ 6th Grade Chorus and Band will perform at 5:00pm & 7th/8th Grade Chorus and Band will perform at 5:30pm
9th-12th Grade Concert will be at 7:00pm
Our LEGO League Team is hosting an Open House on Thursday, December 2nd starting at 4pm in Rm. 610 in the 6th grade hallway. The team will be demonstrating their work so far with their core values and their robot. The theme for this year is Cargo Connect. Here is a link that highlights our team's challenge this year: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/fll/game-and-season. The team will then be competing this Saturday, December 4th at the Natural History Building located at 1301 W. Green St., Urbana, IL. Good luck to Coach Latimer and his team.
Thank you to Mr. Hess and High School Band for honoring Veterans and doing 3 different grade level performances for our students and staff at PBL Junior High School. Thank you to all Veterans for your service to our country.
Mr. Hess and the high school band will be coming to PBL JH to conduct a Veterans Day Ceremony on Thursday, November 11th. We are holding 3 different grade level performances: 8th Grade at 9:30am, 7th Grade at 9:50am & 6th Grade at 10:10am. We will hold these performances outside at the recess area behind the junior high or inside the junior high gym if we have bad weather.
PBL JH Yearbooks for the 2021-2022 school year can be ordered online at https://inter-state.com/order using the code 62936W. There are also forms for cash or check orders in the main office that students can pick up. Yearbook orders are due in April 2022.
On Thursday, October 28th PBL JH held the Fall Band & Chorus Concert in the PBL JH Gym at 6pm. Here is a link to several pictures from the performances: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wmXBzXW693dHxMsw8.
School Picture Retake Day: Today on Friday we have our School Picture Retake Day for the junior high. This picture retake day is for students that would like to have their picture retaken from the fall or for students that were not at school on the day we had fall pictures. If you would like a paper copy of the ordering information we do have those in the main office for students to take home. If you would like to order online our school code is 64632FB and the website to order from is located at https://inter-state.com/order.
The Student Council at PBL JH had a Red Ribbon Week Poster Contest in advisory classes during the month of October. Attached are the pictures from the winning posters for each grade level advisory.
On Friday, Nov. 5th we have our School Picture Retake Day at PBL JH. You can go to the following link & enter the code 64632FB to do the process online: https://inter-state.com/order. If students would like a paper copy of the picture packet ordering form one can be picked up in the main office.
Tonight on Thursday, October 28th we are holding our Fall Band & Chorus Concert in the PBL JH Gym at 6:00pm. Band & Chorus members can arrive at 5:30pm to their locations and we will open the North Entrance Doors by the gym at 5:30pm for parents and families to enter the gym.
Next week at PBL Junior High School our Student Council is sponsoring Red Ribbon Week. Our Student Council has created some themed dress up days for October 25th-October 29th. Check out the image attached to see the different themes for each day next week.
A big thank you to the PBL JH Student Council for preparing and serving our staff on Tuesday & Wednesday this week with their Goodie Cart. Members of our Student Council made their way around PBL JH to serve each and every adult.
Congratulations to Hunter Brandon (6th Grade) for running a time of 12 minutes & 44 seconds at the IESA Cross Country State Meet on Saturday at Maxwell Park in Normal, IL. Overall, Hunter placed 125 out of 234 runners in the Boys 2A Class.
Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held on Oct. 19th & 20th from 3:30pm-7:00pm. We will also be dismissing early on both these days at 2:17pm at PBL JH. If you would like to sign up for a conference please click on the link below and fill in the needed information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gtjW98K0B1e4C10R71eK7rdvohVafkYo5aZz9PDY5uE/edit?usp=sharing
Check out the following link to read about the PBL Education Foundation Annual Impact Report. The junior high is proud to be partners with the PBL Education Foundation for their continued support of our Project Lead The Way courses at the junior high & much more. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kw_F7eapM-V_EJv4tmYH8L_-W7nvvfgJ/view?usp=sharing
The PBL Junior High School Book Fair is up and running this week. Families can shop online through this Saturday, September 25th. Here is the website address for our book fair: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/paxtonbuckleylodajrhs
The PBL JH Book Fair will be open from September 17th - September 24th. Our Book Fair will be in the JH Library and purchases can be made in person or online. Online shopping is open at the following link: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/paxtonbuckleylodajrhs
Parents can also create ewallets for their students to make shopping the fair easier. We would like to thank the PBL Education Foundation for their generous donation that gives each of our students $7 to purchase a book from the Book Fair.
The start time of tonight’s baseball game vs. Rantoul Eater has been moved to 4:00.