From the desk of Travis Albea, Director of Marketing: Typically I try to cover individual classes and events to share with the Brook Hill community, but this Thursday morning I took an unconventional approach. I wanted to give a snapshot into all the various things happening at the Brook Hill MS/US in a window of […]
From the desk of Ginger Bell, Director of Family and Alumni Relations: Sarah Mullicane, ’10, brought lunch to the cabin last week and we had a great visit. What a privilege to get to reconnect with all our amazing graduates. Sarah is studying kinesiology at UTT and will graduate May 2015. She is also earning her […]
This week Brook Hill Tennis players brought home some state championship wins! Marisa Quevedo won state for ladies singles in TAPPS 3A, while Alec & Phillip Kitt won state for boys doubles! What an honor and a privilege to have these students at our school! Marisa has already signed to play Division 1 Tennis at Seton […]
Like our Kindergarten classes, PreK has also been learning about our great state. In celebration of the end of their unit on Texas, PreK students engaged in activities like horseshoes, barrel riding, lasso, cow patty toss, face painting, cow milking, and even received a personal brand on a piece of wood! Parents came to help […]
Our Art students participated in the ACSI Art Festival this week located at The Hope Center in Plano, Texas. There were over 500 works of art and around 20 private Christian 1A to 5A schools that competed from across the district. Each work of art is juried by three judges who score the piece using […]
April is National Poetry Month and Thursday, April 24, was “National Poem in Your Pocket Day”. All Brook Hill Lower School students were given a poem to put in their pockets to celebrate this special day. Raegan McCallum, our Technology Director, delivered a microphone and amplifier to the cafeteria so that students could read their pocket poems aloud using […]
Sixth grade art has been studying about artist Helen Cordero a Pueblo Indian, and her famous Storyteller of 1964 in slipped and painted earthenware. Codero’s art was about how the role of storytellers preserved the history of the Pueblo Indians. They are making their own contemporary version of a “storyteller” in order to introduce them to […]
Our 7th & 8th grade students displayed their vocal talent Tuesday night at their spring choir performance. Students sang numbers from previous middle school musicals, and some of our high school students and alumni who had performed in the musicals even came to sing their parts! It was amazing to hear their vocal abilities and to […]
On Tuesday, 5th Grade students launched rockets into the air using air pressure they stomped out of plastic bottles. Students made rockets with paper and then the class held a contest to see whose rocket went the highest through the process of elimination. Once students were back inside they evaluated why one rocket went higher […]
From the desk of Dr. Stan Ward, Director of Campus Life & Ministry: Interestingly, the day after our OASIS Day (when Others Are Served Instead of Self), Dr. Tim Elmore published a blog post on the inverse relationship between Narcissism (the belief that self is the most important thing in the world) and empathy (the […]
Part of preparing our students for college means helping them get to know the options that are available to them. One of the advantages our students have at Brook Hill is the opportunity to speak with colleges from across the US, right here on our campus. College representatives flood our campus almost week throughout the school […]
Do you recognize the actor in this scene from Hello, Dolly! Hint: the year was 1974. Second hint: He no longer has that much hair on his head. Find out who this is at the bottom of this post! The 2014 spring musical production of Hello, Dolly! opens next Friday night on the Brook Hill […]