Kirby Hall School

Here's a friendly reminder from Ms. L to this summer! Whether it's new publications or old favorites...we'd love to know what books are on YOUR this summer?
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Honk honk! 🤚🤚 It's here! Through many generous donations from our Spring Fling event, and the support of our amazing families, PTO, and Board of Directors, the KHS school bus 🚌has been purchased and parked on campus! (*Painting our name in Kirby Hall red ❤ will be imminent!) We can't wait to motor around town with our students for field trips, service projects, sports and more! Thank you to our wonderful Kirby community for helping us to bring this bus home! 👏

As school ended last week, we celebrated 🎉 each grade's successes and the milestone of them moving up to the next. We were especially proud to graduate 🎓 our class of fifth graders into middle school. They are bright, brainy, creative, compassionate, and a tight-knit group of kiddos who care deeply about each other, their teachers, and fellow students. 🫶 Our seventh graders look forward to them joining the KHS Middle School cohort in the fall.

Through hands-on learning and tech-intentional programming, at Kirby Hall focuses on themes surrounding:

✅Identity & Responsibility
✅Diversity & Resilience
✅Leadership & Service

Find out more about our middle school and unique KHS community, as we enter our 50th year (❗) educating and nurturing young minds, at the link below:
https://www.kirbyhallschool.org/

Farewell faculty, farewell friends, farewell Kirby until we meet again...wishing everyone all the joy and adventure that is summer break! ❤️☀️🌈✈️🍉🏕️👋

We had an excellent time last week at the KHS Sports Banquet 🏆 celebrating our student athletes (👉aka🐧Penguins). Here are some highlights from our three seasons of competition:

⭐ 88% of all students eligible in grades 2nd through 6th participated on a team this year which was AWESOME ‼️
⭐ All of our teams made it to at least the first round of playoffs at the end of each season with our girls soccer ⚽️ team advancing the farthest and earning the Runners Up trophy for the Austin Private School Association League
⭐ KHS supported a *record* 11 teams across six different sports this year (Flag Football, Volleyball, Cross Country, Basketball, Soccer, and Track & Field)
⭐ Coaches Dixon & Dailey handed out our inaugural KHS Captains Awards to several middle school students who exemplified what it means to work hard and be a team player while serving as outstanding role models for the younger students

It was a 🏅GREAT 🏅year for Penguin sports, and we couldn't do it without our dedicated coaches, families, and faculty always cheering us on...thank you, and 🐧

to our epic in the park two weeks ago. It is a favorite event each year as our students cheer each other on through multiple wet and wild competitions 🏅, teachers brave the dunk tank ⚾ , and vast amounts of watermelons 🍉 are consumed! Thank you to our parent volunteers and brave faculty who weren't afraid to get a little soggy 💦 for a fantastical, fun-filled day! 🌞

Our Kirby Hall Penguins 🐧 are PSIA (Private Schools Interscholastic Association) PROUD, earning 3rd place 🏆 overall in the recent statewide competition. We had nearly 30 students compete in a variety of academic and creative/artistic categories from 1st through 6th grades. CONGRATULATIONS to all of our students who participated, and a huge thanks goes to Mr. Dailey, our teachers, and parents for all their time and efforts and helping us to train our brains! 🧠

WAY TO GO! 👍👍👍

Thank you to all of our families who joined us for the lower grades' Parent Picnic in the park yesterday. We loved reminiscing about all that we have learned together in PreK, Kindergarten, and First Grades this year and enjoyed hearing about all of the exciting plans our friends have for summer! 🧺 🌳 🌞