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Maintaining a decade-long tradition, Northbrook Junior High will host American Legion Post 791 Veterans Day Ceremony beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Veterans Day on Monday, Nov. 11 at the junior high, 1475 Maple Ave., Northbrook.

Six Northbrook Junior High students will perform at the ILMEA District 7 festivals.

Congratulations to all 19 students who auditioned. This year the auditions included hundreds of students from over 60 schools, performing in band and orchestra auditions.

Congratulations to the 2024 Homer O. Harvey Scholarship winners, all of whom are members of the NBJH Class of 2020.  Each winner will receive $1,500 as a graduating senior from Glenbrook North High School.

Approximately 35 students had the opportunity to participate in Unified Games,  one of the annual end-of-the-year events that make NBJH a Special Olympics Unified Champion School.

Sixteen Northbrook Junior High graduates were recognized for citizenship and character at the May 29th graduation ceremony. Three received Distinguished Service and two received honorable mention.

Dozens of students, fellow teachers, family members and friends gathered at Greenbriar School on May 21 to honor a very special kindergarten teacher and celebrate the opening of an outdoor classroom built in her memory.

Congratulations to our Independent Science Research students and teachers for bringing home 18 Gold and 5 Silver awards from the Illinois Junior Academy of Science State Fair on Saturday, May 4 in Decatur!

The Illinois School Health Association selected NBJH Health Teacher Wendy Concklin as the Illinois School Health Educator of the Year. This recognition comes on the heels of the Illinois Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance recognizing Northbrook Junior High as a Blue Ribbon Health School, the second time in 15 years.

When every K-5 student receives 60 minutes of music education a week, there are four levels of band, five levels of orchestra, a children’s choir, several middle school choral groups, musical productions for every 5^th grade and an annual spring musical at the junior high, it’s not surprising that District 28 receives continuous recognition from the NAMM Foundation with the Best Communities for Music Education.

Drama Teacher David Downing is well known in the hallways of Northbrook Junior High because of all the activities he leads or is involved in. His passion for student performance and positive teaching style is something Music Teacher Anca Apetean recognized over the past eight years that she has been working with him on the spring musical. She nominated him for the Illinois Those Who Excel recognition program.

The results of Greenbriar School’s first-ever weeklong, school-wide, community service project will require about 20 carloads to deliver, says parent volunteer Urmi Graft.

The school auditorium was transformed into a workshop where every class spent 30-60 minutes working on age-appropriate projects throughout the week. The results: 1,300 meal kits for Ronald McDonald House in Oak Lawn and more than 1,500 bracelet craft kits & handmade joke cards for Camp One Step, an organization that supports pediatric cancer patients and their families.

Playing the oboe is quickly becoming a lifelong passion for 8th-grade Northbrook student Norbert Huelke. He just returned from performing as 1st Chair Oboist in the All-Illinois Junior Band and now he’s setting his sights on the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Maintaining a decade-long tradition, Northbrook Junior High will host American Legion Post 791 Veterans Day Ceremony beginning at 8:45 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 10 at the junior high, 1475 Maple Ave., Northbrook.

Greenbriar School is creating an outdoor classroom so that beloved kindergarten teacher Mary Porcaro’s essence of seeing the beauty in children and nature will be present for years to come.

Maria Eck, an educational leader who has 12 years of experience as a principal of elementary, middle and high schools, is the new principal of Westmoor School.