Community & Family

The Fall Festival, a High Meadows tradition, highlights our unique community’s creativity, joy, and warmth. It includes fun activities, a Sweet Stroll, a bake sale, and other special events. Food options are available for purchase. FAHMS and High Meadows administrators coordinate all aspects of the Fall Festival, and there are many opportunities for volunteers to participate, both in activities and in general operations.

Halloweenie Roast is held on two separate evenings in October for students and younger siblings from Pre-K through third grade. Children wear their favorite costumes and enjoy choosing a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, face painting, pumpkin decorating, games, and much more! Older siblings often volunteer to work with a parent or guardian at this event.

Children are welcome to invite grandparents or special adult friends (relatives, neighbors, sitters, etc.) to participate in special presentations, tours, and classroom visits on Grandparents Day. 

Once a year, the entire High Meadows community studies a single unit of study at the same time. Each classroom interprets the unit in its own way, driven by the students’ skills, inquiries, and interests. Each year’s Emphasis topic is closely guarded until the unit of study begins. Emphasis culminates with a single evening during which students, Families and community members are invited to see how each class and grade level approached the topic. The experience is dramatic and exciting, offering a dynamic demonstration of what makes High Meadows School such an extraordinary educational environment. Past topics include Change, Trash, Leonardo da Vinci, Atlanta, Australia, Money, Benjamin Franklin, Brazil, Cleopatra, Beauty, Oceania, and Rivers. Emphasis is a testament to the integrated curriculum practices at High Meadows. On Emphasis Night, family members, neighbors, and friends visit classrooms and experience the in-depth learning that takes place at High Meadows. 

At High Meadows School, the Gala is a biennial tradition. Parents, faculty and staff, board members, and alumni gather to raise money for High Meadows. In addition to auction items collected from the community, each classroom puts together an art project and a basket to be auctioned off during the Gala. The event usually includes dinner, dancing, and bidding on live and silent auction items. CTA