Dear Congress Park Parents,

 Congress Park Elementary School is pleased to announce this month, January 2025, our Rainbows Program will again be offered during the school day during lunchtime.  The Rainbows Program is a support group for children who have experienced a change in their family system by the loss of a significant person in their life through separation, divorce, or death.  Most often that person is a parent, but it can be a sibling, grandparent, or other close relative or friend. If you would like to sign your student(s) up for Rainbows, please view the information below.

What? A peer support program for children who have a significant loss in their lives by either death, divorce or other painful transition.

Why? To provide children with an opportunity to meet new friends who have shared similar experiences; to have trained caring teachers be present for the children while they sort through and understand their grief; and to help them come to a healthy acceptance of what has happened in their family.

When/Where? During the day at school, once per week during the lunch hour for 12 weeks.

How? If your child would benefit from such a program, please fill out the form below and return to his/her teacher by Thursday, January 23, 2025.

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Please click the link below to register your student(s) for the Rainbows program:

https://forms.gle/2gYuu96eXw4Xg1Zx7

The Yearbook Contest is back!
Yearbook Cover Contest

If your child will be absent from school, please contact cpattendance@dist102.k12.il.us. This is a quick and easy way to communicate with the health office about your child's absence.

Congress Park activities can be found on the District website, or parents can subscribe to our Parent Google Calendar.  Follow the link to subscribe.  Congress Park Parent Google Calendar

As outlined in our Parent Handbook, we kindly ask that commercial lunches, such as McDonald’s, not be brought in during the school day. If a lunch of this type is dropped off, your child will enjoy it in the office. We appreciate your cooperation in helping us maintain a healthy and consistent environment for all our students.

Brookfield Library Winter Programs

Calling all student scientists, engineers and inventors!

STEM EXPO 2025 is coming soon on Saturday, March 1st, 2025 at Forest Road School, 901 N Forest Road, LaGrange Park from 9:00 - 12:00.

STEM EXPO provides an opportunity for students from kindergarten - 8th grade to explore a science topic of their choice, either independently or with a friend. Learn something new and share your project at EXPO! Projects range in complexity from simple observations to full experiments, inventions or technology projects. For more detailed information go to the STEM EXPO website Guarantee your limited edition t-shirt in your size by registering before February 15th. Register now.

All are invited to visit our K-8 th grade students as they display and present their projects at EXPO. Participants will be ready to share their knowledge, creativity and STEM talents with you.

Visit the Science Center Open House from 10:00 - 1:00 pm. Experiment with a variety of science and engineering activities as well as some animal time.

See you at STEM EXPO!