You're all invited to our annual District Art Show opening reception! The event will take place April 24th at 4:00 pm in the Clements Center upstairs lobby area. There will be light refreshments, a string quartet based out of our own HPHS Orchestra program, and art from students K-12! We hope you're able to join us for this wonderful reception, but if not, the art show will remain up in the Clements Center until April 30th. You can also visit our new webpage to check out a digital gallery, organized by campus, using the link below!

University Park kindergartners and HPHS art students collaborated to make the second annual UP Plushies event an amazing success! Kindergartners at University Park designed and drew monsters and creatures from their imaginations, which Ms. Talkington's freshman art students turned into real life stuffed animals! The high schoolers presented the kinders with their plushie and gave them an adoption certificate to mark the special occasion. The buddies then worked together to make paper monsters to decorate Ms. Torres' bulletin board display! We are so glad this event could be made possible again this year, and we can't wait to see what next year's plush friends will look like! Many thanks to Jen Torres and Jenai Talkington for creating and organizing this event, as well as several student and faculty helpers.

The Highland Belles announced the new 2025-2026 Service Officers at the team’s end-of-year banquet. Peers and Directors selected these officers to organize and implement all social and outreach activities for the Belles during the 2025-2026 school year. We are grateful for their leadership and service. Silver Belle Awards were also announced during the banquet. Congratulations to all of the recipients!

Congratulations to the HP Scots Choir on an outstanding showing at the UIL Concert & Sight Reading Contest! Four choirs earned coveted Sweepstakes awards, receiving Division 1 ratings in both stage performance and sight reading. These top honors went to the Varsity Mixed Choir (Lads & Lassies), Varsity Treble Choir (Lassies), Varsity Tenor Bass Choir (Lads & Concert Tenor Bass), and the Non-Varsity Treble Choir. This year marks the first time since 2019 that three Varsity choirs have competed—and they delivered exceptional performances. Way to go, Singing Scots!

Congratulations to the Highlander Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony for earning Superior Ratings at UIL this week! We’re incredibly proud of your hard work and achievement!

And another big congratulations to the entire Highlander Band program for receiving the prestigious Sweepstakes award for Superior ratings at UIL Marching Contest and UIL Concert & Sightreading Contest. We are so proud of you!

The Raider Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band had an amazing trip to the Dallas Winds Festival at the Meyerson Symphony Center!

3rd and 4th graders have been honing their weaving skills these past couple weeks! It is so cool to see when the “ah-hah” moment happens and it just clicks for them!