Forreston/Polo boys track team placed third in today's relay invite in Byron.
Aplington track pictures will be tomorrow, April 14th at 3:15. Please send uniforms to school!
Prom is April 29th at 6pm. If you would like to nominate your child for Prom Prince or Princess, please email ejoines@poloschools.net.
6th grade IFLY permission slips, online waivers, and $10 are due today! The deadline is firm so please get your information done and turned in. Here is the link for the online waivers:
https://events.iflyworld.com/event/46EBACB6-F5C7-ED11-9439-005056845F6B
Day two of testing is under way. Staff and students wore green...Mean Green Testing Machines.
While eating in the cafeteria our Centennial students will get to view our newly painted mural. Thank you Nora Balayti @Norakatepaints! We continue to be impressed by your work for the students of Centennial.
Congratulations to Bella and Lexi for receiving the Illinois Principal Association Award.
Casey's pizza to start the day before IAR testing. Good luck 3rd to 5th grade students.
The phone lines are currently down in the district. Please email your building secretaries for call offs or if you need any assistance. kwright@poloschools.net for the high school, kchesnut@poloschools.net for Aplington and shillison@poloschools.net for Cetennial.
If you are interested in the open seat on the Board of Education, please have your letter or email of interest to Dr. Mandrell at kmandrell@poloschools.net by April 19th at 4:00 pm. At this time, Buffalo Township is the only township that we can not receive another board member from.
JV softball has two games added to their schedule. April 28th at Dixon at 4:30PM and May 12th at home vs. Dixon at 4:30PM.
4/5/23: Due to yesterday's games being cancelled, we will play varsity double headers tomorrow against Forreston starting at 4:30 at West Side Park. Games will be 7 innings due to it being a conference game. We will reschedule JV to a later date in the coming weeks.
Congratulations to the following students for receiving a Positive Office Referral in the month of March.
Our preschool morning students are enjoying some lunch for the first time with us. They are thrilled about being in the cafeteria.
The AM Preschool Students will be leaving the District at 1:00pm. If you would like to come and pick up your child that would be the time we are dismissing them. We have fed the students lunch in our cafeteria.
There will be no after school activities for Polo High School or Aplington Middle School today, Tuesday, April 4th.
We will have an open 2-year seat for the Polo Community Unit School District Board of Education. If you are interested in this position, please email Dr. Kelly Mandrell at kmandrell@poloschools.net. This seat will begin on April 26th.
Parents: Today, 4/4/23, Polo Community Unit Schools will be dismissing at 2:30 pm. This will give our buses time to get students home and safe before the next round of storms. This includes any student of ours that may go to a school outside of our district that we provide transportation to. Our students are out of a shelter-in-place. They were in this protocol from 11:20 until 11:45 pm.
We are extremely sorry for the short notice but there will be no PM PreK today, 4/4/23.
There will be no Whiteside Area Career Center today, 4/4/2023. At this time, all three schools are in our place of shelter for the storm. We will continue to keep you updated.