School News & Updates

It is a very busy and exciting time at High Point, with a range of culminating activities across the grade levels and special community events, and the next four weeks will certainly be more of the same.  As we approach the end of the 2023-2024 school year, I think about the inevitable bittersweet departure of our 8th grade class and reflect on what makes our High Point graduates so special and our wonderful school so unique.

Some nine months in the making, two middle school students achieved a first for the school. It took a team with a strong working plan—one musician/video expert and one talented researcher—to craft a winning documentary that has achieved historic status.

5th and 6th grade advisory students discussed how serving others is an important part of being a member of a community.

Looking back, I can clearly see that many of my passions, values, and choices were seeded when I was a student at High Point, and I feel lucky that I grew up in such a nurturing environment.

April is National Poetry Month, and High Point Academy’s fourth graders know the perfect way to celebrate: share poetry with new friends, young and old. As part of the school’s annual Community Engagement program, the class always visits The British Home, a local independent and assisted living residence. What better way to spread cheer than write and illustrate original poetry and share it with the folks at the Home?

During the after-school enrichment, which met every Tuesday and Thursday from February to March, students can build and program robots for various engineering challenges.

Even the cutest fuzzy caterpillars weren’t enough to deter these intrepid environmental warriors from doing their jobs—clearing away invasive weeds that were choking the native plant species in Eaton Canyon Nature Center. High Point Academy teachers Robin Von Der Lancken and Sarah Nguyen, along with a half-dozen parents, watched as sixth graders fanned out across the southern edge of the 190-acre park in Altadena to pull and bag up mustard weed (Brassica nigra), a plant known for depositing seeds that keep natural plants from growing and also for contributing to fire danger.

Part of the fourth-grade STEAM curriculum emphasizes information literacy through research. For their second-quarter project, the fourth-grade class selected a notable individual in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) to celebrate Black History

Upcoming competition dates: (CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN April 13 and 14) RESCHEDULED for May 4 and 5 at Hansen Dam Horse Park. The address is 11127 Orcas Avenue, Sylmar, CA.

This is the team's second year of competing in The Interscholastic Equestrian League also known as IEL. High Point's Team is Cassidy I., August L., Penelope S., and Megan M. Please go and support them! We wish them all well in their upcoming competition!

After graduating from High Point in 1991, I attended Flintridge Prep and then went on to USC. There I majored in Studio Arts with a minor in Communications. I started my own business, Bacio Design & Marketing, over 10 years ago, serving 60+ independent schools and organizations across the country and growing!