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Our Soccer Adventure Begins!

The Vanguard Vikings are embarking on another adventure this fall with a high school soccer team. After two games, the Vikings are 2 and 0! Led by senior captains Wade Sharrock and Dwight Clasby, our 11-man squad has powered through the competition with a combined...

Service project – Vanguard Students making a difference in their community

Students in the 18+ program are learning the value of serving others. They recently spent time working with the North Texas Food Bank and Brookhaven College. North Texas Food Bank takes a truck full of produce to Brookhaven College once a month. Our students...

Vanguard Coffee Shop is Officially Open for Business!

After a successful trial run this summer, the Vanguard Coffee Shop is official. My dream is that one day it will be a free-standing store serving the public and run by Vanguard students and alumni! We are starting small and laying the ground work for our dream to...

Vanguard Launches New Robotics Team!

I recently attended a workshop for new and returning coaches and mentors of BEST robotics teams at UTD, and I have to say that this is a really incredible program. The robots are cool, and a ton of fun to build (and then play with), but the really exciting thing is...

WHO SAYS LEARNING ABOUT GOVERNMENT, ECONOMICS, AND FINANCES HAS TO BE BORING?

This week, Middle School went on their annual Enterprise City trip! Enterprise City is a small “town” in Richardson where students have the opportunity to be a grown-up in the business world for a day! Business loans are taken out from the bank. Employees receive,...

The Winner Inside… NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY (NHS) — ANNUAL STATE SUMMIT

Vanguard national honor society students attend the state annual summit. Thanks to parents of our honor society students for helping to facilitate our visit to the NHS State Summit yesterday. It was extremely informative and inspiring, and I think our member students...

KENN NESBITT, CHILDREN’S POET LAUREATE AT VANGUARD!

Kenn Nesbitt, recipient of the U.S. Children’s poet Laureate, facilitated an amazing “virtual” field trip for our class last week. Mr. Nesbitt thrilled our students with stories of how his love for poetry developed. Describing the boredom of family road trips,...

DRAWING WITH GIANNA

TODAY IN CLASSROOM 12 WE HAD OUR FIRST STUDENT LED ASSIGNMENT. Playing to her strength and creative interests’ classroom 12’s very own Gianna Flores earned the privilege to step into a teaching role. Her mission: To lead her peers in an artistic rendition of a happy...

VANGUARD STUDENTS RAISE MONEY FOR ST. JUDE!

There are many ways the students at Vanguard Prep School exemplify the qualities of good citizenship, community involvement, and leadership among their peers. During the week of April 24-28 of this year, our lower school students demonstrated even more ways to shine...

STUDENTS LEARN HISTORY OF FARMERS BRANCH!

WE HAD SUCH A PERFECT, SUNNY DAY FOR THE FIELD TRIP TO FARMERS BRANCH HISTORICAL PARK ON THURSDAY, MARCH 23RD. If you have never been there, it is like Old City Park in Dallas. There are buildings from the early 1900s connected by brick roads. We stepped back in...