02/14/25 Fine Arts Department News

Click the image below to watch a sweet singing valentine from HPHS Choir's Park Version Vocal Ensemble, featuring students from 10th-12th grades!

HPHS Debate took home two awards this year at UIL District, which was hosted here at HPHS! 1st place in Cross-Examination (CX) went to Layton Braziel and Camden Coale, while Maddie Prawdzik and Emma Goga took home 2nd in CX. Congrats to these students and their coach, Mr. Whisenhunt, all pictured below!

Environmental Architecture students are partnering with Dallas CASA to design and build a playhouse inspired by the Cox residence in Dallas! Using design software SketchUp, students proposed designs that were judged by an independent panel. The winning design will be built by the MAPS students and raffled off to raise money for CASA!

Congratulations to the HPHS Art students who won regional awards at the Scholastics Arts and Writing competition! Students who win regional gold keys will advance to the national level, which will take place at Carnegie Hall this summer.

It's that time of year again: time for our annual MAPS Mardi Gras float contest! Students design and build their floats over the course of two class periods, and then the floats are judged by HPHS students and staff. Congrats to our first, second, and third place winners, pictured below with their designs!

This past Saturday, the Singing Scots competed in the Region 20 UIL Solo and Ensemble competition at Townview High School. The Singing Scots took home 43 medals spread across various levels and voicings. Please congratulate these singers on earning this honor! Also, our in-house voice teachers had recitals last week that showcased the true talent in our choir program. Congratulations all students who participated in both events!

Ms. Vo's students recently finished making chair sculptures! First, they learned about iconic chairs. Then, they turned paper rolls and masking tape into a chair.

Please congratulate the cast and crew of HPMS Raider Drama's UIL One Act Play! On Saturday, the cast and crew of "The Masque of Beauty and the Beast" competed at Argyle Middle School, and won 2nd place in our district, and took home the following individual awards:

Outstanding Crew: Knox Heinlen, 7th Grade

Honorable Mention All Star Cast: Brooks Buis and Arabella Frizell, 8th Grade

All Star Cast: Luca Brack and Anoushka Ghai, 8th Grade

This is the first time since 2021 that HPMS Raider Drama has competed in One Act Play, and the first time competing in our UIL Academics District. A big accomplishment for Raider Drama!

The HPISD 4th and 5th Grade Honor Choir has met for the past two weeks in the high school choir room! The group is led by Middle School and High School Choral Faculty. The students will join the High School and MIS Choirs in a joint concert performance on March 26th at the High School.

We are feeling the love at Hyer with all of the art this month! We’ve got Love Monsters in PreK and Kinder from the book by Rachel Bright, LOVE letters inspired by Robert Indiana in first grade, and impressionist bouquets inspired by Bertha Morisot in third grade!

4th grade students performed rhythms containing quarter notes, quarter rests, and eighth notes on music stands along with an accompaniment track. Student leaders came up to turn the music stands to change the rhythms and there was a student leader who kept the beat for the class. Ms. Beard, Mrs. Conklin’s student teacher, taught this fun lesson.

UP 2nd graders kicked off Lunar New Year 2025 by learning the legend of how the celebration got started and the importance of the holiday in many Asian countries around the world. Students also learned the 12 animals of the Zodiac and want to wish you all an awe-sssss-ome and pro-sssss-perous Year of the Snake!

UP 3rd Graders are WILD about WEAVING! Students learned how weaving has been used throughout history and looked at different kinds of looms before warping their own cardboard looms. Once finished, kids will tie their weavings onto a dowel rod and add hand-created pom-poms or beads to complete their colorful wall hangings.