On Tuesday, our seniors had their class retreat! Topics discussed included life after high school, continually engaging in the Catholic faith, and thinking about the future. They had an awesome day including Mass, Adoration, and talks from Fr. Chase Hilgenbrinck and Sara Petty, who is Bradley University’s campus minister!Read More

Last week, AP Seminar students worked on building their Individual Written Argument (IWA) essays for College Board submission! Each time they pulled a block to build their tower they had to also build their IWA’s argument with topic sentences and corresponding evidence! The towers may have gotten shaky, but the students’ arguments are strong!Read More

Shout-out to our awesome Technology staff member Aaron Cunningham! Aaron applied for and successfully secured a security grant of $82,500 for PND! Updates utilizing this grant will start this summer. Congratulations & thank you, Aaron!! Amazing work!Read More

Reminder that Bunny Breakfast is coming up THIS SATURDAY from 9-11 AM! We can’t wait to see you all there for our Easter egg hunt, arts & crafts, and to meet the Easter Bunny! Tickets will be available at the door!Read More

The 40th Annual Blue and Green Gala: Ticket to Ride sped by Saturday evening like an express train, but we are so thankful for the volunteers and donors who made the evening possible! We are especially thankful to our emcees Mitch Gilfillan and Greg Whitten and our student speakers Enanu Smart, Elle Couri, and Mariel...Read More

Yesterday morning, the PND Baking Club held their second annual Muffin Madness to complement the current March Madness tournament. Members brought in their best muffin for a standoff of whose muffin was the best. Grace Yontz’s zucchini muffins and Cassie Lawless’ blueberry muffins went head to head. However, the blueberry muffins were victorious and thus...Read More

On March 11th, St. Thomas School hosted their Science Palooza! PND Student Ambassadors had a great time face-painting & doing a physics activity with the students at the event. The activity – on the conservation of angular momentum – included lots of spinning & balance from participants (and lots of laughs, too)! Thank you for...Read More

Congratulations to these future collegiate athletes as they made it official today signing their letters of intent! Dillon Stickelmaier and Nevan Libert will both continue their soccer careers at St. Ambrose University next year. And Becca Dawson will be playing volleyball at Eureka College. Congrats again to our student athletes and we wish them the best...Read More

Congratulations to Sr. Faustina Thomas, who finished up her student teaching at PND last week! Sr. Faustina Thomas is a temporary professed sister for the Dominican Sisters of Mary and will make final vows in 2 years. She is originally from California, and she has been in the process of completing her teaching certification through...Read More

PND students attended the Illinois March for Life in Springfield on Tuesday! The day included Mass with Bishop Paprocki, the march around the Capitol building, a holy hour at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and bowling! PND also got to meet up with our other diocesan high schools: St. Thomas More, Bloomington Central Catholic,...Read More