From the desk of Wally Dawkins, Athletic Director: The year was 1997. Steve Dement’s vision of starting a Christ-centered, college prep school in Bullard, Texas had come to fruition. The Brook Hill School opened its doors to 31 students on a 300 acre site in rural East Texas in a place where you wouldn’t really […]
Chemistry students are studying different types of chemical reactions and evidence that reactions have occurred. In this lab, students performed six mini-experiments. They saw a yellow precipitate form when two colorless aqueous solutions were combined. They heated baking soda and saw water condense around the mouth of the test tube and then tested for the presence […]
From the desk of Rod Fletcher, Headmaster: As we head into a new year, my encouragement to the Middle and Upper School students in chapel this week was to “not just let life happen to you.” I reminded them that they are a group of young people who have been given incredible opportunities and it […]
When third graders came to science lab today, they had to pretend they were on an Apollo mission to the Moon. The title of our journey was “What Is Being On The Moon Like.” Imagine you live in the future and your home is on the Moon. How would their life be different than it is […]
From the desk of Shawn Rhoads, Director of Residential Life: Here is a look at some impressive numbers for our boarding program: 80 students 75 Graduates (total) 40 Girls 40 Boys 25 Juniors 25 Sophomores 19 Countries 19 Seniors 15 Honor Guard Students (this semester) 10 Freshmen 10 Teams played on 9 Resident Staff Members […]
This week in Bible 7, the students were introduced to the eventful life of King Saul, the first king of Israel.Students began by imagining themselves in Saul’s place throughout his major life events found in 1 Samuel and created “diary” entries from our hero’s perspective. On Friday the students prepared a news story detailing the […]
Students in Mrs. Brunson’s biology class got into the lab this week to learn about DNA. Students performed a variety of experiments to see how the principals they’re learning in class look in real life!
Volcanoes were erupting in earth science this week! Students used baking soda and vinegar to erupt their volcanoes and then marked the flow. They then filled in the area where the “lava” flowed with Play-Doh. Then students had a second, third and fourth eruption that they also covered with Play-Doh, creating an impressive shield volcano. Mn […]
Spanish students have been thinking about one word they want to define their year. After students found the word they wanted their life to be marked by this year, students then translated that word into Spanish and created a poster that represented that word and the year ahead! What a great way to integrate Spanish […]
In Mrs. Brunson’s Biology classes, students have been studying invertebrate groups. These animals include sponges (porifera), hydras (Cnidarian), Planarians (Platyhelminthes), Ascaris (roundworm), grasshoppers (arthropod) and crayfish (arthropod). They recently used the “Life Process Charts” in their lab books and completed them in class. They then visited the lab to watch a number of preselected videos […]
Our second graders are starting the New Year off with a whole lot of shaking. Students are learning about the states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases. In our science lab today, we went on a field trip by just sitting! Students had the opportunity to name and pick out different solids in our science […]
6th grade students in Mr. Roquemore’s Humanities class worked in pairs to complete a character analysis for their current novel, “Little Women”. Using evidence from the novel, the students had to describe the attributes of a main character, sketch a relevant item, and find quotations which best exemplify the personality of the character. Activities like […]