The “Tuck Everlasting” cast & crew have been hard at work preparing for their production!! We are so excited to see this show! Performances are April 4th at 7:30 PM and April 5th at 1:30 and 7:30 PM!Read More

We had a (literal) blast with the 4th graders from our partner schools this morning for a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Math) Day!! Mr. Girsch & Sr. Agnes Paulina kicked the morning off with awesome chemistry & physics demonstrations. Then, the 4th graders moved to different stations filming their own movies, creating fun...Read More

We had an awesome pep rally this afternoon to honor and celebrate our girls basketball’s team second place finish in the STATE! The band, cheerleaders, and students brought the pep, and we heard great talks from Coaches Langholf & Breitbach as well as the three seniors on the team: Kaitlin Cassidy, Julia Mingus, & Alli...Read More

Huge thank you to Fr. Chase Hilgenbrinck & Maryjeanne Gilbert (PND Class of 2016) who spoke at our Spring Sports Retreat on Sunday! Fr. Chase gave an awesome Homily at Mass connecting the Gospel on Jesus’s temptations in the desert to temptations teams can face and how we are called to be good teammates and...Read More

Congratulations to the PND Music Department who competed in the IHSA Solo & Ensemble Contest on Saturday at Monmouth-Roseville High School! Seventeen of our students competed with two solos and five different ensembles. They had wonderful showings and all received high scores from judges on their performances! Way to go! We are so proud of...Read More

We are so proud of our girls basketball team who are SECOND in the STATE!!! Come cheer on the team and welcome them home back at PND! 7-ish start-time— we’ll update as we get closer! Congratulations on another amazing season! We are so proud of you!!Read More

The girls are playing in the STATE FINAL tomorrow!!! Come root on the Irish!! Saturday, March 8th 3:00 PM CEFCU Arena in Normal Tickets can be purchased for $13 online at this link [https://goredbirds.evenue.net/event/IGB25/GB07] or $11 in-person Check out awesome photos from the STATE semi-final yesterday from the Peoria Journal Star at this link [bit.ly/3FlpyF1]...Read More

Mr. Eichholz’s classes were busy this past Tuesday! Third-period Pre-Calculus students were graphing polar curves, including cardioids (heart curves), while sixth-period Calculus students learned the L’Hôpital’s Rule, applying derivatives to limits—a concept developed by Johann Bernoulli.Read More

Reminder to families amongst the exciting events: PND Offices will be closed beginning tomorrow Thursday, 3/6 at 12:30 PM due to the girls basketball state semi-final game. (Commons after-care will remain open until 1:30 PM on Thursday.) Students will return to school on Monday, 3/10 while our faculty and staff participate in a Region 1...Read More

This morning during Ash Wednesday Mass, Fr. McShane offered a powerful homily on reclaiming our “interior life” or the hidden part of us that only God sees. He encouraged and outlined methods to make God our foundation through prayer, almsgiving, and fasting. He mentioned that just as trees live a hidden life in winter, preparing...Read More