One of the sad things about ending the school year under quarantine is missing the opportunity to celebrate milestones. While we were able to have an online award ceremony, and an in-person commencement ceremony for the class of 2020, we were unable to celebrate a significant retirement. After decades of teaching in San Antonio Independent [...]
The new school year is just around the corner. We're excited to welcome our students back to school at Orientation next week Friday August 16th. We're also excited to give a sneak peek of our latest Tenney School enhancement, our new sport court. It turned out better than we hoped. Clink here to see the [...]
It was great to hear the final performance of our Tenney School 2018-2019 music students. Our Spring Performance this year was held in coordination with our final award ceremony. At the concert we saw performances from our Voice students, Piano students, and both of our school Bands: Crocodile Boulevard & Panic Attack. The performance even [...]
At our Spring Award Ceremony we were excited to see a project presentation from our Engineering Class. During the spring semester, our Engineering class students worked on designing and building a mechanical hand. During the presentation they shared how the hand was all designed on modeling software during class. The final design was printed on [...]
In our latest Senior Spotlight for our Tenney School Class of 2019, we hear a little about Tobey's journey. In this interview, our College Counselor, Lisa Cashiola interviews Tobey. Tobey tells a little about her journey though high school, her decision to attend Oklahoma State University, and shares some tips for younger students. Click this [...]
Today there are increasing reports of alienation and feelings of isolation in young people. Teens, while being especially adept at social media, often feel as if they aren’t really connecting with other human beings. That’s why a small school such as The Tenney School is so effective at making students feel as if they are [...]
This week in Houston many high school students will be taking the SAT. What makes this unique is that March 6th, 2019 will mark only the second time the College Board will offer school day SAT testing for high school students throughout the United States. High school students were also offered the opportunity to test [...]
Anyone driving by the facility will have noticed The Tenney School monument sign is not looking so good. In fact, the old sign was (finally) removed yesterday. This story started several weeks ago when we arrived to school one morning to see the monument sign on the front lawn was obviously destroyed. Problem was, no [...]
Our music program rocks! As a small private school, we have the freedom to teach and play music of interest to our students. Here's our band, Crocodile Blvd, performing Queen's hit, "Radio Ga Ga". This is one of the tunes they're practicing for the spring music performance. https://youtu.be/K633QCe_HBA
We've had some cute dogs hanging around the school recently. We don't know where they came from, but they certainly made themselves at home quickly. When the weather was wet, they were especially likely to hang around the school in either our covered shrubs or garage. As cute as they were, stray dogs present a [...]
