Mrs. Phillip and her class celebrate the 100th day of school!
The Polo 7th and 8th grade girls basketball teams will not be attending the Chadwick tournament scheduled on Sat, Feb 5th.
100th day stem building in Mrs. Lahti’s class.
Polo High School Student Council will sponsor a blood drive Tuesday, February 22 from 7:30 to 12:00 in the High School Gym at 100 S. Union Ave. in Polo. The Student Council will also be holding a bake sale fundraiser throughout the blood drive in the gym.
It’s a new year and time to put your resolutions into action. Polo High School Student Council is encouraging community members to join them in donating blood as a part of your regularly scheduled routine appointments. You can schedule your donations for the entire year, like your dentist appointments. Every time you come in to donate this year, you help improve the lives of patients and their families who rely on your generosity 7 days a week, 365 days a year. In addition to saving lives, the Red Cross matches PCHS donations with scholarship funds distributed to our students so your donation has double the positive impact in our community and beyond.
Can’t make it February 22? Please mark your calendar for the next PCHS sponsored blood drive scheduled for April 28, 2022
Donors may call 946-3314 or go to the American Red Cross website to make an appointment. Walk in donors are also welcome.
The Red Cross is experiencing the worst blood shortage in over a decade. Please consider joining our local students in making a difference.
Help save lives and support scholarship opportunities for Polo High School Students.
COVID Update for 1/24/2022:
Students
This week we had an average of 14.5 students excluded.
12 new positive cases for the week. For the year, we have had 75 cases throughout the district.
Teachers
1 new positive case for the week. For the year, we have had 25 positive cases.
Sauk Valley Community College will be hosting virtual information sessions about the Impact Program on Wednesday, February 9th at noon and Monday, February 14th at 5:00 p.m.. The Impact Program allows students in the Sauk Valley Community College district the opportunity to earn up to three years of tuition and fees in exchange for volunteering in our community. To register for an information session, please use this google form or visit www.svcc.edu/impact. Participants will be emailed the Zoom link the weekday before the session.
If you have any questions, please email impact@svcc.edu.
Congratulations to Knox Chesnut, Centennial School Spelling Bee champion and alternate Jackson Buskohl. It was a job well done by all who participated.
AP/HS February Menu from the cook
Polo HS Boys Basketball game tomorrow 1/28/22 at AFC will be VARSITY ONLY starting at 6 pm.
Due to the extreme temperatures tomorrow, Wednesday, January 26, 2022, Polo Schools will be changing the 1/2 day to a full e-Learning day. There are packets in PreK-5 folders and 6th-12th will have assignments on Google Classroom. Teachers will be available from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. by email if your child has questions. We will amend the school calendar at the February Board meeting to include a new School Improvement Day.
COVID Update for 1/18/2022:
Students:
8 new positives for the week. This puts our count to 63 total for the year with students.
On average, we had to exclude 20.75 students this week.
Teachers:
6 new positives for the week. We are at 24 total for the year.
1 teacher was excluded.
1/20/22: The JH wrestling meet for tonight at West Carroll has been cancelled.
Practice will also be cancelled tonight and will resume as scheduled tomorrow.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the junior high wrestling schedule for this week and next will be as follows:
Friday, Jan 14 - No Practice
Monday, Jan 17 - No School (holiday), No Practice
Tuesday, Jan 18 - Meet vs DuPec CANCELLED, Practice 3:30-5
Wednesday, Jan 19 - Practice 3:30-5
Thursday, Jan 20 - Meet @ West Carroll as scheduled
Friday, Jan 21 - Practice 3:30-5
COVID Numbers:
The adaptive pause is ending for Centennial on the 19th. The students will come back on the 20th.
Our numbers for the week of 1/10/2022:
Students:
We had 9 new positives this week. This has moved the district up to 55 total positives for the year.
We had an average of 54.6 students excluded this week.
Teachers:
We had 4 new positives this week. This has moved the district up to 18 total positives.
We only had 1 staff member quarantined.
Polo High School Girls Basketball game scheduled for 1/15/22 at Pearl City has been cancelled.
Polo HS Wrestling meet at St Bede and Polo HS Wrestling practice scheduled for tonight 1/11/22 have been cancelled.
Polo HS Boys Basketball game scheduled for tomorrow @ Milledgeville has been rescheduled to 1/24/22 at 6 pm at Milledgeville.
Due to testing, Aplington will dismiss at 2:37pm on Thursday, January 13th and Friday, January 14th.
COVID Numbers for the week of 1/3:
Students: We had 25 students become positive this week. We went from 21 positives for the year to 46. Please make note that some of these students did receive it over break and were already out of exclusion prior to coming back from break.
On average we had 36 excluded this week for being a close contact.
Staff: We had 7 staff members become positive this week. Once again, please note that some of these staff members did receive it over break. We went from 7 prior to Christmas break 14. We had 2 staff members excluded due to being a close contact.
Sauk Valley Community College will be hosting virtual information sessions about the Impact Program on Monday, January 10th at 5:00 p.m. and Wednesday, January 12th at noon. The Impact Program allows students in the Sauk Valley Community College district the opportunity to earn up to three years of tuition and fees in exchange for volunteering in our community. To register for an information session, please use this google form or visit www.svcc.edu/impact. Participants will be emailed the Zoom link the weekday before the session.