Make plans to see the HPHS Fall Musical, Chicago: Teen Edition! Set in the jazz age of the roaring 20s, Chicago: Teen Edition tells the story of Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, two women searching for stardom while also being tried for murder. Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap... until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and Velma vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American Dream": fame, fortune, and acquittal. Running October 12-14 at 7:00pm and October 15 at 2:00pm, this show is sure to "Razzle Dazzle" you!

Directed by Brittany Murphy, with music direction by Natalie Walker and Neal Patel, and choreography by Armoni Adamson. Set design and technical direction by Tyler Perring. Tickets can be purchased at the door or online starting September 25th at https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/highland-park-high-school/64dfd836a4c9860e3d8d185b. Please note: this show is suitable for audience members 13 and older due to content.

Highland Park High School Choir competed at the District competition on Saturday, September 23rd! The following students will be advancing to the next round in the Region competition on October 14th. Additionally, 14 students earned placement in the 9th/10th grade Honor Choir. Congratulations to all of our choir students who competed!

On Saturday, September 23, the Highland Park novices went to their first contest hosted at Dallas Jesuit! The sophomore team of Brielle Siscoe and Manahil Qureshi represented Highland Park and secured their first debate round win. Congratulations on a strong showing and the start to a bright Debate career! Thank you to our varsity debaters Lilian Goetz, Camden Coale, and Layton Braziel for their assistance. The Highland Park Speech & Debate team have open tryouts every Tuesday and Thursday after school in SC209.

Art 1 completed their Tantamounter Challenge, where they recreated an object out of cardboard and any other found material. Congratulations to the winning teams:

Caiden Reeves and Elliott Tolleson

Bonnie Engstrom, Mila Sneider, and Olivia Wilson

Emery Paulsen, Esme Schroeder, and Claire Van Kirk

Huck Corwin and Sayers Wheeler

Objects are on display now in the HPHS library!

Band students have had a great start to their year! Band students enjoyed their weekend with a pool party at the Jewish Community Center of Dallas, and then the Raider 7th/8th Grade Band students performed at the HPMS 7th grade football games on Tuesday, September 26th. See below for information about the upcoming 6th Grade Beginning Band concert at the HPMS/MIS Auditorium!

SMU’s Music Education Practicum class and their professor, Dr. Julie Scott, taught our 4th grade students a new song with movement and a dance while reviewing rhythms containing quarter notes, quarter rests, half notes, eighth notes, and syncopation.

UP Kindergarteners celebrated the 20th anniversary of Peter Reynold’s book, The Dot, by exploring all kinds of dot making. Students had fun cutting and gluing dots, drawing dots, stamping dots, painting dots, and even printmaking dots! Once finished, they proudly displayed their dot-tastic artworks in fancy frames that they created. The whole school joined the fun on International Dot Day by all wearing dots to school as well.

UP 1st Graders kicked off the start of the State Fair of Texas by learning the history of Big Tex and interesting facts about the fair. Students drew images of the fairgrounds in the background before painting their sky with watercolor paint. Next, they drew & colored the giant cowboy and then cut out. Adding 3-D O’s to their cutouts gave their Big Tex artwork a three dimensional aspect that students loved!

UP 4th grade artists are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by learning about the holiday Dia de los Muertos and how it honors family ancestry. After designing their own sugar skull in their sketchbook, students are now re-creating their design with felt and wool roving using Needle Felting. Stay tuned for their amazing finished artworks!