Headmaster’s 2012 Open House Address
Each year at our Fall Open House, Headmaster Alvaro de Vicente gives a presentation to prospective families about The Heights mission. Today’s post is an audio recording of this year’s talk. From...
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The Library and The Prime Directive!
The Heights School is traditional in many ways, not least in its continuing to call theschool library a library. Dating from the 1980s, many schools began to call their libraries “media centers”, to...
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Varsity Basketball Tops Bullis and Georgetown Prep
The varsity basketball team is coming off a couple exciting wins going into Christmas break. In a fantastic come-from-behind win, our boys beat Georgetown Prep 62 – 56. And just last night, they beat...
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Seniors Dig Into History of Western Thought
In the hall outside of the new capstone course called “History of Western Thought,” two Seniors are debating whether lying is always wrong, enjoying the poetic moments of The Republic, and arguing...
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Heights Joins National Cybersecurity Competition
This February 1st, Heights Upper Schoolers Jonathan Brubaker, Yeonsuk Kim, and Daniel Marino-Johnson are in a race against the clock. Is it corporate espionage? Are hackers trying to break in and see...
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Heights Internship Program Gets HIP!
The Heights Internship Program (with the amazing acronym HIP!) was launched this Winter as a voluntary program for Juniors interested in pursuing a summer internship. Students meet each Tuesday and...
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Christmas Concert Packs Out Schlesinger Hall
More than 800 parents, brothers, sisters and friends joined us at this year’s choral and band concerts at Schlesinger Hall in Alexandria, VA. Thankfully one of our fans managed to catch part of a...
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Thanks for an Amazing Gold Rush (aka Winter Auction)!!!
At last Saturday’s winter auction, The Heights family struck gold! While we’re still waiting for some of the gold dust to settle, it looks like we will net at least $120,000 for the School and for our...
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Habemus Papam!
Consider this The Heights’ version of www.popealarm.com! Just after 2pm today shouts of “We have a pope!” rang throughout the School. Upon hearing the news, all students and faculty joined excitedly in...
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Heights Rugby Wins First Match of the Season
Didn’t know we had a Heights rugby team? Well, we do — and they’re off to a winning start! Last Friday, The Heights School’s Rugby Football Club won it’s first match of the season, 22-20, against Bell...
View ArticleDonor Day: A Day to say Thank You!
Each year gifts to the Crescite Fund and Alumni Scholarship Fund cover roughly 10% of expenses for mission critical programs like fine arts, athletics, advisory and curriculum. We simply can’t imagine...
View ArticleThe KMO Method! (aka Amazing Heights Math)
A small group of Heights students in the Differential Equation class have exceeded by wide margin the expectations of their teacher. They have discovered a novel method for solving mth order,...
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Four ways for your son to have an incredible summer…
Happy Last Day of School Everyone! As we head off for Summer vacaion, 5th Grade Teacher Mr. Tom Steenson offers a few words of advice on how to make the break both relaxing AND productive: 1. Help him...
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Our Assembly and Mr. de Vicente’s Goals for the Quarter
Yesterday we had an all-school assembly in the gym; every classroom of every grade was present. From a teacher’s perspective, merely viewing the group of students and faculty was inspiring. Smiles...
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Heights Debaters Plant Flag on the National Debate Circuit with Wins at Yale
Heights debaters Ned Gidley, William Digges and Louis McHale debated at the Yale Invitational debate tournament Friday Sept. 20th and Saturday Sept. 21st. This was the first time that the Heights has...
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Living Latin at the Heights
By Tom Cox One of the greatest rewards for a teacher is positive parental feedback. I love it when parents tell me, “Mr. Cox, my son’s favorite course is Latin! Who’d have thought he’d love Latin!?”...
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Way Leads on to Way: Michael Ortiz on Old School
Heights English Teacher, Michael Ortiz, writes for Only@TheHeights on Old School: a novel that 10 years worth of Heights seniors have enjoyed in Mr. Ortiz’s AP English class. My seniors and I have just...
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Headmaster’s Open House Speech
Our thanks to the many visitors who were able to join us for the Fall Open House. For those of you who either missed the Open House or would simply like to hear the Headmaster’s Presentation again, we...
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How to Help Your Son if He Is Struggling Academically by Michael Moynihan
As the quarter wraps up, we thought we’d re-run–or simply highlight for the first time here–a piece by our Upper School Head, Michael Moynihan. It begins, A student may underperform academically for...
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Leaves to Look For
5th Grade Heights Teacher, Joe Breslin, shares some wisdom from the valley about leaves to look for this fall. Happy raking! Everyone has had the experience of bumping into a new, unfamiliar word...
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