Mission: All School Council exists to promote service and fellowship among the student body.
Membership: Students in grades 11 and 12; appointed by house leaders
Meeting Time: Whole Club – Fridays at 7:15 am; Executive Board Tuesdays at 7:15 am in E-36
Student Leader: President, Joe Culp
Faculty Moderators: Mrs. Katie Hausauer and Ms. Julie Santen
Mission: Anchor Club International serves to organize, encourage and support youth community service projects in Anchor Clubs around the world.
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times: 1st and 3rd Thursday mornings
Student Leader: President, Felicity Shane
Moderator: Mrs. Betty Phillips
Mission: Animal Care Club promotes the love of all God’s creatures and serves at local animal shelters.
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times: Once a month in the mornings
Student Leader:
Moderator: Mr. Marty Stenoish
Mission: To grow community through art.
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times: Random Thursday’s after school in W-16.
Faculty Moderator: Mrs. Maggie Off
Mission: To creating a community of bakers at Peoria Notre Dame through service and fun.
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times: Last Thursday of each month at 7:30 AM in E-36
Student Leader:
Faculty Moderator: Mrs. Katie Hausauer
Mission: The Bass Fishing Team promotes community and teamwork while developing the fishing skills of its members.
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Time: In the Spring
Student Leader:
Faculty Moderator: Mr. Doug Simmons
Mission: The Bishop’s Leadership Committee exists to develop a select group of juniors in virtue and Christlike servant leadership. The Campus Ministry Department meets with these juniors to discuss the virtues of leadership and to plan ways in which through their involvement or planned activities can lead their peers to develop a healthier and holier school community.
Membership: Juniors who are chosen based on teacher nomination for their natural example of leadership evidenced in faith, academics, service, and/or athletics.
Meeting Times: 1st Monday of the Month
Faculty Moderators: Fr. McShane, Chaplain, Sr. Jude Andrew Link, and Jack Conley, Campus Ministers.
Mission: This course provides students with the opportunity to perform in a group and develop skills as a musician in concert, pep, and marching bands. Instruction is provided to enhance performance skills, technical proficiency, knowledge of terms and notation, tone, rhythm, counting, scales, and advanced playing techniques.
Membership: Students are expected to participate in all concerts, parades, home football games, and home (men’s) basketball games. Other performances include visit days, pep rallies, and graduation. Students may participate in the Illinois Music Educators Association (ILMEA) auditions as well as the IHSA Solo and Ensemble Contest. Further opportunities include honor bands at various colleges and universities. Permission of instructor is required if student has not previously been in band.
Meeting Times: Course in schedule & various performances throughout year
Faculty Moderators: Ms. Mara McClintock
Mission: Small Groups provide a more intimate setting for students to grow in relationship with God and with each other through weekly meetings with their peers and an adult leader.
Membership:
Meeting Times: Meeting times are decided upon by each group; typically, before school or during advisory.
Faculty Moderators: Fr. McShane, Chaplain, Sr. Jude Andrew Link, and Jack Conley, Campus Ministers.
Mission: Chess Club gives students an enjoyable pastime that sharpens the brain while still having fun.
Membership: Open to all students
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Mission: Concert Choir is an academic course for credit, and all PND students who want to sing together and learn about music are welcome.
Membership: Concert Choir is open to all PND students who enroll for credit. Concert choir members are eligible to receive CSP hours for singing at all-school Masses.
Meeting Times: During Zero Hour
Faculty Moderator: Ms. Mara McClintock
Mission: CF Club raises awareness about Cystic Fibrosis and to volunteer with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Peoria chapter.
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times:
Student Leader:
Faculty Moderators: Mr. Tyler Lyons
Mission: Drama Club’s mission is to enrich the education of high school students by involving them in the creative process of theater by bringing diverse young persons together in an environment of creative and imaginative stimuli where theater can be witnessed, experienced, ingested, talked about, and lived through opportunities to showcase their talents on and off the stage.
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times: During the Fall play or Spring musical rehearsal times
Faculty Moderators: Ms. Katie Antrim
Mission: Easterseals Club volunteers at the local chapter of Easter Seals and raises awareness to others about the special needs of children with disabilities.
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times:
Student Leaders:
Faculty Moderator: Ms. Julie Santen
Mission: The Four Leaf Rovers provides students with a level of engineering knowledge, fun, and cooperation only obtainable through the FTC Robotics program
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times: Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:00 PM, some Saturday mornings for meets, too.
Parent Moderators: Mr. Ian Aguirre and Mr. John Timmons
Mission: To increase patriotism by promoting knowledge of how to display, salute, and store the American Flag.
Membership: By appointment from the Dean of Students.
Meeting Times: Before and after school.
Faculty Moderator: Mr. Isaac Rudolph
Mission: French club works to spread knowledge and appreciate of the French culture throughout the PND community.
Membership: Open to all students interested in promoting French culture
Meeting Times: French Fridays – before school at 7:15 AM
Faculty Moderator: Mrs. Kara Girsch | Website
Mission: To spread awareness of healthcare career options among the student body, to connect students with healthcare practitioners to gain more understanding of patient care, and to grow in moral virtues that align healthcare practice with the Gospel values.
Membership: Integrated into Biomedical course participation
Meeting Times:
Student Leaders: Co-Presidents, Maeve Lynch and Lauren Dalbey
Faculty Moderator: Sr. Agnes Paulina Maciol
Mission: Irish Guard is a color guard that performs with the PND marching band to enhance the music of the marching band performance.
Membership: Open to those who communicate with the Band Director, Ms. Mara McClintock
Meeting Times:
Faculty Moderator: Ms. Mara McClintock
Mission: Irish Nation is a long-standing tradtion of the “Green Men” and the “Pink Ladies” who lead our student section in cheers. They collaborate with band, cheer, and dance to ensure the whole study body is included and full of school spirit!
Membership: By invitation
Student Leaders: Green Men & Pink Ladies
Faculty Moderator: Mr. Isaac Rudolph
Mission: To create an environment where students can express their God-given gift of creativity through LEGO building and learn how to cooperate as a group to create large-scale projects
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times: Every other Tuesday at 7:15 am in W-24
Student Leaders:
Faculty Moderator: Mr. Pat Lowder
Mission: Letters for Love exists to both serve and show support for the sick, needy, and elders within the community. Bringing together and creating a fellowship among the community, both young and old, healthy and sick.
Membership: Open to all
Meeting Times:
Student Leaders: President, Olivia Stuart
Faculty Moderator: Mr. Jack Conley
Mission: Lumen Christi is a group committed to illuminating our school with the Light of Christ: the only Light that brings true light, peace, beauty, love and goodness. Those who are part of Lumen Christi commit themselves to first receiving the Light of Christ through prayer, Confession and especially the Eucharist. Thereby, they then become carriers and givers of this Light: authentic Christian witnesses – Bright Lights of Christ – that shine in this school, transforming the lives of those around them with their light.
Membership: Members must fill out & turn in application to Campus Ministry.
Meeting Times: Once a month on Mondays in the auditorium during A/B advisory
Faculty Moderators: Fr. McShane, Chaplain, Sr. Jude Andrew Link, and Jack Conley, Campus Ministers.
Mission:
Membership:
Meeting Times: Evenings
Student Leaders: Captains:
Faculty Moderators: Mrs. Erin Lard
Mission: Recognize excellence in students.
Membership: Junior/Senior, Requirements for membership are published at the beginning of the application period in early January.
Student Leaders: President appointed in February.
Faculty Moderator: Mrs. Kara Girsch
Mission: Pickleball Club serves to offer opportunities for athletic fellowship within the PND student body, regardless of a student’s skill or athleticism.
Membership: Open to all
Student Leaders:
Faculty Moderator: Mr. Tom Lacher
Mission: “Just Win, Baby”
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times: Tuesday and Thursdays after school October-March
Student Leader:
Faculty Moderators: Mr. Joe Mulcahey
Mission: Our mission is to spread Spanish language and culture at PND, and to expand our speaking skills!
Membership: Open to all PND students
Meeting Times:
Student Leaders:
Faculty Moderator: Mrs. Luciana Hoeft
Mission: Events range from writing your own speech to presenting a published script ranging from funny to heartbreaking material.
Membership: Membership open to students interested in speaking
Meeting Times: Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays after school
Student Leader:
Moderator: TBD
Mission: The Peoria Notre Dame St. Jude Club supports the St. Jude ALSAC mission statement. As the Peoria Notre Dame Community has seen first-hand the effects of childhood cancer, the St. Jude Club’s sole mission is to raise funds and awareness for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by hosting a multitude of small and large fundraising events throughout the year, setting high expectations for club members and officers, and uniting the whole Peoria Notre Dame community in a common cause.
Membership: Open to all students.
Meeting Times: 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:30 am
Student Leaders: President, Delaney Driscoll
Faculty Moderators: Mrs. Laura Wiggers, Mr. Mike Plunkett, and Mrs. Valerie Schifeling
Mission: Student Ambassadors is an organization of students who individually and collectively represent the values of Peoria Notre Dame High School with passion and enthusiasm. Together, we welcome and support past, present, and future members of the Peoria Notre Dame community in order to continue the tradition of Catholic secondary education in Peoria.
Membership: By appointment. Interviews take place in the spring of each year.
Meeting Times: Wednesdays mornings of each month at 7:15 am in the auditorium
Student Leaders: President, Claire Coulter
Faculty Moderators: Miss Annie Carroll
Mission: Teens for Life educates students about pro-life issues and the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death, and encourages students to live in a way that is authentically pro-life through personal prayer, community service, and participation in local and national pro-life events.
Membership: Open to all students interested in pro-life and chastity education. Members must complete & submit application to Campus Ministry.
Meeting Times: Meetings are twice per month – Tuesdays during A/B Advisory
Faculty Moderators: Fr. McShane, Chaplain, Sr. Jude Andrew Link, and Jack Conley, Campus Ministers.
Mission: Yearbook club continues the “Irish Odyssey” tradition by using graphics, pictures, and stories to show how the Peoria Notre Dame community lives out the school’s mission statement.
Membership: Open to all students
Meeting Times: During Advisory and class sign-up
Faculty Moderator: Mrs. Kristine Ross
