Category: Student Life News

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Spring Spectacular year-end recital

What a sensational night! Our Spring Spectacular year-end recital was an absolute triumph, with a nearly sold-out show! Our incredibly talented high school and middle school students delivered outstanding performances that left the audience captivated and amazed. We couldn’t be more proud of their hard work and dedication. Congrats to our amazing students for an incredible performance! ??

The Spring Spectacular at Herbst Theater on June 2, 2023. (Qing Li/HSArts)

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Taiwan Updates

Student Life News
March 24, 2023

Our students are enjoying the warmth and humidity of Taiwan. In other words, ‘warmth’ referring to our hospitable hosts but also it’s really hot, and ‘humidity’ referring to the weather, the sweat from the intense training, but also the many many cups of bubble tea already had. While they’re sure to bring back wonderful memories and stories of their Asian adventure, here are a few pictures they’ve shared so far:

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Pi Day Champion

Student Life News
March 17, 2023

Our 7th grader, Jacqueline McCarthy, took home the coveted Pi Recitation Championship after reciting 56 digits of the infinitely long irrational number. She faced close competition from the other students, but ultimately delivered the numbers without a mistake. Her prize? A delicious oreo smoothie from Little Sweet boba shop. Congrats!

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Pi Day Celebrations: Monday 3/13

March 10, 2023
Student Life News

What do you know about pi? Do you know that it is an irrational number, which means that the number never ever ever stops? Do you know that it is the ratio of the length around a circle to the length through a circle? Do you know that its applications are vast and robust: helping us to even estimate the volume of our entire universe? Well, whether you do or don’t, you are invited to celebrate one of the most exciting holidays with us this Monday! Our students will be competing in a school-wide endeavor to recite as many digits, in decreasing size order, of pi as possible. In case that is not exciting enough, we have sweetened the deal! The winner will be treated to boba, and anyone who can correctly list more than 31 digits of pi will receive 10 points of extra credit towards their next math test! Please encourage your child to set a goal of how many numbers they would like to memorize, and work on this endeavor this weekend. Some of our students are off to a head start and can already rattle off 50 digits! We are looking forward to sharing this giddiness around math on Monday, while feasting on pie, and celebrating our hard work. 

Thank you!
-Mrs. Leddy

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Study Hall and Tutoring

March 3, 2023
Student Life News

Not quite clubs, but also happening during extracurricular hours, study hall and tutoring opportunities await you!

Looking for a quiet, focused place to do some homework or get some studying in? Each afternoon, there’s study hall! There’s a different teacher supervising each day, ready to answer any of your questions.

We also have a number of teachers available to go over homework, review subject material, or even do a bit of extra tutoring. You just have to reach out and ask!

So drop on by study hall or ask your local teacher about some extra tutoring. We’re all here for you, ready to help 🙂

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TRYBE Show

March 3, 2023
Student Life News

TRYBE is a new sensational circus performance featuring the San Francisco Youth Circus and directed by Veronica Blair.  It’s about 3 young explorers who adventure in the Floridian Wetlands and discover a tribe of people living there.  They learn a lot through different circus acts and comedic bits. 

HSArts 7th grader Giovanni HunzekerHesed is in this show at Circus Center which is right around the corner.  HSArts students can get two for one tickets by using this discount code: 2FOR1.

CIRCUS CENTER

755 FREDERICK STREET

3/10 AT 7PM

3/11 AT 2PM & 7PM 

3/12 AT 2PM

For tickets or more information:  http://circuscenter.org/shows

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Featured Arts News of the Week

March 3, 2023
Ms. Hannah Ogden, Musical Theatre Director and Acting Teacher

The school year is truly flying by! Quarter Three already?! It feels like just yesterday that our Musical Theatre program was starting its first quarter ever in the fall of 2021, and now here we are, preparing to present the Spring Music and Musical Theatre Showcase over a year and a half later!  The musical theatre full-time and elective students have been working hard in the Acting classes to prepare a heartwarming production of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. This play is a compilation of short stories by Robert Fulgum, placed together to create a snapshot of the human experience. What happened to the confidence, creativity, and wonder of childhood? Why do we as humans sometimes lose our free-spirited nature as we age? This play seeks to explore what it means to be a person and asks the question “What is a legacy? What do I want my legacy to be when I leave this life?” Please join us on Wednesday, March 15th at 6 PM in Studio 2 for a night of vocal performances (featuring several solos and a group performance of Firework), musical selections from our instrumentalists, and a showing of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Tickets are free, though there will be a goodwill offering basket at the door for anyone who is interested in donating to the Musical Theatre program. All funds raised will go towards our final performance of the 2022-23 school year, which will be announced very soon 🙂 Please RSVP using this link so that we have an accurate estimate of our audience and can prepare accordingly. We hope to see you all on March 15th! 

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5th and 6th Grade Field Trip with Mrs. Leddy

Academic News of the Week
March 3, 2023
Mrs. Darragh Leddy, Math Teacher and Field Trip Supervisor

This past Wednesday, the 5th and 6th grade math classes visited Randall Museum. In math class, we recently learned about ratios, proportions, and scale factors. To see the applications of scale factors we have been studying maps. Students had to print out a map that instructed them how to get from school to Randall Museum. I accompanied them, but did not give any direction; not even when they disputed whether they were going the correct direction or not. Students worked together, explaining clearly why their interpretation of the map was correct and were able to listen to each other and come to an agreement. We only went wrong once! We stopped at Corona Heights Park, climbed a huge rock (very carefully), and had clear panoramic views of the city. We played eye spy and had fun taking in the span of San Francisco. We could even see Mt Diablo, which some students learned was not LA. At Randall Museum, students toured other middle schoolers’ science projects that Randall Museum is displaying this month. Our students now have a greater understanding of what a science project entails, and have some great ideas for what they plan to test next year in their very own science project. We also visited animals that Randall Museum is rehabilitating. Students were particularly enamored with the raccoon. We look forward to more field trips, more time outside, and more ideas to test and share our results with our community!

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