Marking the Accomplishments: End-of-Year Events

I hope you are good at following Facebook and Instagram posts and stories from the School. These social media channels are invaluable sources, where our fine arts and athletics departments and three divisions post photos and videos that hopefully inform you and make you proud most every day. You might even catch the twice-a-month Head of School Points of Pride mini-videos we have begun sharing. Even if these accounts are not the source of your information, I hope you know just how much you can find in our social media feeds.

Points of Pride Episodes

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Especially note in those posts our hosting of all but tennis matches for the end-of-spring season varsity athletics league (the Southwest Preparatory Conference). Our tennis, track and field, baseball, and softball teams all go into this weekend’s tournament with the chance to earn a 3A Championship. Our girls golf team can brag about Amelia Dickerson '26 placing third, while our boys can brag that Connor Henry '23 placed third, and Mason Harper '25 captured fifth. Put their success alongside last week’s fabulous production of Alice in Wonderland from our ballet program; our visual arts exhibit of AP students with photography, ceramics, and painting and drawing; and next week’s concerts, and we have dramatic examples of two of our vaunted A’s, athletics and arts, in action.

Add last week’s fabulous, 24-round Lower School Spelling Bee and this week’s 54th Kindergarten Rodeo, annual trips to Vicksburg and Big Bend for our seventh and eighth-graders, and you have learning happening as much out of the classroom as in it. 

From Here, Anywhere ...

The two non-academic A’s and those fabulous “co-curricular” experiences often show up in the essays our seniors write in their college applications. Those essays play a role in those seniors racking up all sorts of acceptances to an extensive array of colleges and universities. 

JK-8 parents and guardians might want to take a slow drive through the Upper School circle next week to see a unique statement of those acceptances. As they do every year, College Counselors Kristin Larsen and Sarah Casarez worked with the Advancement Office to gather a yard sign for each of the colleges and universities to which any of our seniors gained admission. The Class of 2023 display confirms the wonderful variety of interests and the exceptional gifts of these 93 seniors, with acceptances from Berkeley (University of California) to Berklee (College of Music), from the University of Vermont to the College of York (England), from Stanford University to Savannah College of Art and Design. Our “From Here, Anywhere” tagline seems especially appropriate looking at the collection signs and knowing our seniors' ultimate college choices are among that collection.