Payton called off all spring foreign exchanges and trips Friday evening, a dramatic but expected move in the wake of the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.
BREAKING: All Payton Trips Canceled As Coronavirus Fears Mount
How Payton Students Celebrate Thanksgiving
With a lot of people coming from different backgrounds here at Payton, we wondered: How else do people celebrate? Are there different traditions they have? What about the food? We interviewed several people to find out more about the way they celebrate. Here’s what they said.
Solving the Programming Puzzle: How Payton’s Course Schedules Are Created
Each spring, Payton students submit their course requests for the following school year. On a website called Sound Programming, they rank their choices and select alternates as required. Yet this is only the beginning of an arduous process that will last all summer: Creating daily schedules for Payton’s more than 1,100 students.
Students Take Part in Annual Sweetness Day Service Projects
Payton students participated in a variety of service projects throughout Chicagoland on Monday as part of the school’s annual “Sweetness Day.”
A Chromebook for Everyone: Payton Goes One-to-One
By Allison Cho, Camille Grandjean, and Grace McDermott EDITORS Many students are familiar with the current school laptops: bulky, slow, and constantly low on battery. But technology at Payton will soon undergo […]
Walter Payton’s Stella Binion Honored as National Student Poet
by Caroline Bernet Stella Binion steps on stage, to deliver a poem, but she is not standing in Chicago. She is in Washington D.C. in front of First Lady Michelle Obama. She […]
Payton in the Eyes of Prospective Students
On November 8, Walter Payton opened its doors for the public to roam its hallways and explore the Payton experience. The grand affair was crowded with prospective students, parents, teachers, students and […]
