Join us on March 31 for A Night of Innovation & Collaboration! Alongside our rigorous college prep curriculum, our faculty and staff are expanding opportunities and reimagining programming to connect our girls with the fields shaping tomorrow. Join us to learn about our focus areas, our partnerships with leading businesses and institutions across the Dallas metroplex, and our efforts to inspire and empower the 
next generation of leaders and innovators. RSVP here!

 

We are excited to celebrate our Fourth Grade Daisies’ world language journey with our annual World Language Dinner and Party on April 29 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. This special end-of-year tradition includes a French- and Spanish-themed dinner, dessert, and a dance party to mark the close of their elementary language-learning experience. Watch for an email from Madame Grip and Dr. Inboden with additional details.

Lower School Grandparents’ Day will take place on Thursday, April 2, 2026. We look forward to welcoming our grandparents and special friends that morning for a meaningful day of connection and celebration.


 In order to have both Middle School and Lower School grandparents on campus that day, Lower School will complete their events by 11:15 am and dismiss all Lower School students at 11:30 am. There will be no Happy Haps.

Rising Fifth Grade families are invited to campus on Thursday, April 9, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm in The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Theater. This meeting is for new and rising Fifth Grade parents and their daughters. At 5:30 pm, there will be a reception for families to socialize in the Hoffman Lobby of The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Theater. The parent program about Fifth Grade will begin at 6:00 pm in the theater, and your daughters will be introduced to the rising Fifth Grade class and engage in fun activities around campus. Current Fourth Grade parents should have received an email communication from Mrs. Christenson the first week of March.  

Middle School students may wear Limitless sweatpants or Hockaday sweatpants with Limitless t-shirt, sweatshirt, and socks, or any Hockaday t-shirt with uniform shoes on Friday, March 27.

It is time for the highly anticipated 5th Grade Olympics on Friday, April 10! This thrilling tradition is a highlight of our Physical Education curriculum and a day the girls will remember for years to come.  Country placements have been announced and teams are already hard at work practicing events during PE class. We have stressed the importance of sportsmanship and enthusiastic participation as the highest Olympic ideals, and we all look forward to a fun-filled day! We thank you for your support and hope you can join us for the event. Please check your email for a more detailed outline of the day's events. If attending any events, parents need to follow campus security guidelines by checking in at Hoak or LLARC and wearing the parent name badge.

 

A few reminders for the day:

On Friday, April 10, seventh graders will enjoy a social impact field trip day. They will depart campus mid-morning and return in time for regular afternoon carpool pick-up. Students should bring a nut-free sack lunch and reusable water bottle. Students should wear a Hockaday t-shirt with jeans, leggings, or PE-approved sweatpants and sneakers; clothes should be appropriate for outdoor work and the weather. Students will engage in their theme of food insecurity by touring Paul Quinn College’s ‘We Over Me Farm’ and volunteering at ’Joppy Momma’s Farm.’  Students will be given a Field Trip Information Sheet to bring home with additional details.

Grandparents’ Day will be held on Thursday, April 2, and the program for grandparents of Middle School students will be in the afternoon. Students will have regular arrival and dismissal times, and Daisy Den and Middle School Athletics will follow their regular schedules. Parents received more details from Mrs. Christenson in a separate communication.

Sixth grade parents received an email earlier this week explaining the process for world language selection for their daughters. The choices broaden in seventh grade to include Spanish, French, and Latin. Students were informed about their options in a recent class meeting. Please submit the online language selection form by Friday, April 10.

All Middle School students will take the online CTP5 assessment provided by the Educational Research Bureau on the mornings of Tuesday, March 31 and Wednesday, April 1. Afternoon classes and activities will be held at the conclusion of testing on both days.

This assessment provides a standardized data point for the school and teachers to use in conjunction with classroom assessment to provide an overview of your daughter’s educational growth and our school programming. There is no special preparation needed for any CTP5 test except to be sure students get a good night's sleep and eat a nutritious breakfast. We ask that you not schedule any doctor or dentist appointments on those mornings; we do not provide make-ups as we value and study the longitudinal implications of these assessments rather than the results in any individual year. When you receive the results of these assessments in June, a detailed interpretation of your daughter’s scores will be included. Please keep in mind that these percentiles and stanines indicate how your daughter performed on certain tests on a given day and should be viewed in context of her overall classroom experience in learning and not considered an indicator of her future academic success.