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IAN CRAIG, DECEMBER 2018 Dear TVS Family, As it is the mid-way point of this school year, I wanted to take a moment to pause among all of the busyness of the season to reflect on what has been an incredibly successful year. This mid-year report captures some of our successes to date.
On campus: • We opened the year with the North Field additions, including the concessions/restrooms building and 120 new parking spaces. • The development of the Middle School play space has allowed for much-needed brain breaks, whatever the weather. • We are full steam ahead relative to the South Field projects that include renovated baseball and softball fields, a concessions/restroom facility, and a newly astroturfed field that all sports can take advantage of in inclement weather.
In the arts: • A number of Upper School students have been attending Shakespeare workshops at Northside High School. • Cook Children’s, in celebration of its centennial, unveiled a brand-new mural that was created by a TVS senior. • The Upper School TVS Strings ensemble qualified for All-State. • One junior is now the Principal Cellist of the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra. • Our new Lower School music teacher created, and 2nd graders performed, an incredible new production; she also directed and choreographed 300 Lower School students in a phenomenal holiday program. • Twenty-six students from grades 4-8 qualified for the March National Honor Choir, five Upper Schoolers qualified for the Women’s Concert Choir, and we had our first sophomore to ever