Nutrition Services Supervisor, Paula Angelucci often says hunger doesn’t take a vacation and that’s why she pulled out all the stops to make certain Colonial’s students received five breakfast and five lunch meals before Spring Break. Angelucci reached out to a Pennsylvania company that agreed to her request for their pre-assembled boxed meals. On Wednesday at 6 AM district maintenance/custodial, transportation and nutrition services staff worked together to unload a tractor-trailer filled with 28 pallets, containing 3,000 boxed meals.

“This massive emergency feeding effort was truly a “Power of WE” moment,  we could not have successfully pulled off providing 29,340 meals to our community children without it!” Angelucci said.

The Grab and Go Meal distribution will resume on Wednesday, April 15th. 

Colonial is doing everything we can to keep our community and staff members safe. In order to ensure that we are following the Coronavirus prevention guidelines and directives of limiting groups of 10 or more and adhering to social distancing, we will be closing all of our playgrounds starting April 9th. We will continue to follow all CDC guidelines to stay safe and healthy.

School counselors and nurses are available for parents and students via email.
Click here for email contact information for counselors and nurses at your child's school. 

Thanks to our dedicated administrators, teachers, and staff approximately 975 devices were issued to families on Monday at William Penn High School, Gunning Bedford, and McCullough Middle Schools. This is the third district-wide distribution of devices, with 7000 distributed to students so far!  If you require technical support for your device please visit: A
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The News Journal was at William Penn to report on the device deployment. Click the link  for video: https://www.delawareonline.com/videos/news/2020/04/07/computers-given-colonial-school-district-families/2959939001/

The first official week of remote learning got underway with teachers eager to reconnect with their students. Keeping students academically engaged is not only vital to their learning process, but it also keeps them occupied in a positive way during this unprecedented time in our country. 

Since students can’t be at school, Wilbur has a Virtual Spirit Day for every day of the week until the Wilbur Wildcats can return. Teachers, students, staff and families are encouraged to post pictures with the designated theme for the day. On National Zoo Day, zoo animals and favorite pets were shared.

Two paraprofessionals, Tilesha Mcfee and Tameka Mays were featured in The News Journal after being nominated as heroes for working tirelessly during the Coronavirus pandemic! Kudos to the twin sisters who are going above and beyond and making everyone in Colonial Nation proud!  Click the link below to read about the difference they are making in the lives of so many people in need. 
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/life/2020/04/08/here-some-delawares-reader-nominated-heroes-during-coronavirus/2953329001/

Colonial Nation is filled with awesome CSD alumni. Check out some of staff stories who have come back to work in Colonial Nation.