Welcome parents, teachers and students to the 2014-2015 academic year. It is a privilege to address you today at the beginning of this our fifteenth school year. We thank God for our many blessings, for this misty fall morning, for Highlands Latin School, for our beautiful new athletic field at Spring Meadows, for a new school year, for the gift of life, the gift of children, and the gift of grandchildren. Last year my grand-daughter who was in Kindergarten, greeted me after the Opening School Ceremony with this comment, “Nana, your speech was OK, but it was too long.” Kindergartners, please bear with me.
The National Latin Exam is offered under the joint sponsorship of The American Classical League and the National Junior Classical League, founded in 1919 and 1936 respectively, and headquartered at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. More than 154,000 students from forty-nine states and seventeen foreign countries participated in the NLE in 2014. The NLE has […]
Congratulations to Highlands Latin Founder, Cheryl Lowe, who was named the Most Admired Woman in education by Today’s Woman magazine. Read the article on Today’s Woman’s website. Below is Mrs. Lowe’s bio from our website. Cheryl Lowe is a Louisville native whose books and essays on Latin instruction have garnered a national reputation for excellence and […]
Highlands Latin Senior, Maggie Collum, has been published in The Classical Teacher from Memoria Press. Her inspirational college essay was circulated to over 100,000 readers. More importantly, it gained her acceptance into Princeton University. We know you make great sacrifices to give your children a classical education. Read Maggie Collum’s essay Crying to Dream Again, and hopefully it will all seem worth it.
Congratulations to six Highlands Latin juniors who were accepted to the 2014 Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program. The Governor’s Scholars Program is Kentucky’s most prestigious summer, liberal arts program for rising seniors. The HLS students accepted are Spencer Henderson, Matthew Zolla, Logan Crum, Lauren Petrey, Andrew Thibaudeau, and Alexander Perdue. We would like to congratulate Ed Boomershine and Andrew […]
Preliminary plans for the new Highlands Latin gym at Spring Meadows are below. The gym can be used as a single high school basketball court with seating for up to 600 or two side by side elementary school courts. We will also stripe several volleyball courts. The construction of the building is brick with limestone trim and the interior will […]
Highlands Latin hosted its first baseball game April 12th on our new field at Spring Meadows. The team played well, and it was a beautiful spring day for a baseball game. Construction of this field involved hauling in nearly 1000 truck loads of fill dirt, blasting hundreds of yards of rock into a hillside, and building back a stone amphitheater. The […]
Objective: Build a multicopter from individual components using a programmable board (e.g. arduino) and complete a series of tasks for points. The team with the most points wins. Each team of 12th graders will receive an $850 budget to purchase components for constructing a multicopter. Starting with a DIY kit such as 3DR-Y6 from 3drobotics.com or […]