Aria is our 2026 West 40 SCOTY (School Citizen of the Year) Award winner! Chosen by the Blythe Park staff, her kindness, positivity, and respect have made a lasting impact on our school community. We are so proud of you, Aria! 💙✨

Blythe’s Got Talent!!! 🌟 We are so proud of all our talented students. Thanks to everyone who came out to support!

Congratulations to our Blythe Park students who were recognized in the Riverside Women’s History Poster Contest!💙

5th graders had a great time at the Shedd Aquarium today! They’ve been studying ocean habitats and animal adaptations, so it was amazing to see everything come to life right in front of their eyes! 🐬🐠🌊

Blythe Park students proudly shared their science fair projects at the Brookfield Science Fair! So great to see their curiosity, creativity, and hard work on display💙🔬

Author Abby Regan visited Blythe Park to share what inspired her to become a writer and why she loves creating stories about her dog, Oatmeal! 🐶📚 Our students loved hearing about her writing journey and asking questions!

Today our 5th graders celebrated their 1,000th day of school at Blythe Park! 🎉 What an incredible milestone! We are so proud of the kind, hardworking leaders they have become!!

Our 3rd graders dressed in red to celebrate Chinese New Year! ❤️

We had our February All-School Meeting and celebrated our Kindness Award winners! In honor of Black History Month, each class shared about a notable figure they’ve been learning about. It was powerful to hear about so many brave, influential Black leaders who continue to inspire us every day! 💙

5th grade experts shared their knowledge about ocean animal adaptations to the kindergarteners!! 🌊🐠

Happy Valentine's Day from all of us at Blythe Park!! 💕

Our 5th graders spread kindness by creating heartfelt compliment mats and celebrated Valentine’s Day with some sweet math fun! 💕

Blythe Park students celebrated their whole school reward with a glow stick dance party!! It was so fun celebrating together!! 🪩🌟

February is Kindness Month, and our Student Council is spreading kindness by creating bookmarks to share with our school community!💙☺️

The Blythe Park students had so much fun dressing up and dancing the night away at the Snowball Dance! Thank you so much to our PTA for planning such a fun night! ❄️🪩

The kindergarteners had a blast today celebrating the 100th day of school! Time flies when you’re having fun!! 💙🥳

100 days smarter, wiser… and older? The first graders dressed like they were 100 years old to celebrate the 100th day of school! We had so much fun celebrating this special day! 🎉👵🏼👴🏼

At our all-school meeting today, our kindergarteners shared what they learned in January about being responsible! We celebrated our Responsibility Award winners and recognized students who model responsibility every day. We also introduced February’s character trait, kindness! We can’t wait to spread kindness throughout our school community all month long! 💗🐾

When it’s too cold to come to school... we bring school home! Our students stayed cozy and connected during our e-learning day on Zoom. So happy to see everyone's bright smiles from home today! ❄️💻💙

In anticipation of inclement weather, we have made the decision to shift to an eLearning day on Friday, January 23. Student devices will be sent home with them today. To review our eLearning plan, instructions, and student expectations, visit district96.org.

Riverside Parks & Recreation will be offering supervised childcare and eLearning support at the Quincy Street Community Center (43 E. Quincy) for $38 from 8:00 AM-3:00 PM. Before and after care can be added for an additional fee. Participants can register online or onsite.

After school activities on Thursday, January 22 will continue as scheduled. Friday, January 23 before and after school activities are canceled.

Stay safe and warm!