This week Kindergarten students have been learning about creation.   Most kindergarten classes do have a snack time. Snacks need to be healthy and your child should be able to open his/her snack independently. Please do not pack your child’s snack with his/her lunch, as it confuses the children and often times they may eat lunch at snack time or snack at lunch time. ​​While meals make up the majority of a child’s nutritional intake, most children […]

To practice the scientific method, students tested to find the soil combination that would hold the most water.   First, students observed garden soil, peat moss and sand.  Next, they make 4 different combinations of the soils and poured water into a paper cup with holes in the bottom to collect water in a beaker.  […]

The Business Lab and Guard Shop are now open! We held our Grand Opening on Monday, August 12, 2019 and can’t wait to get this school year started! Our new business lab will allow our students to gain real-life business experience. We have added a collaboration space and opened a new store called The Guard […]

Students in The Brook Hill School of Business hit the ground running this week in the brand new Business Lab!   Business Principles students explored both The Guard Shop and The Cabin Coffee house by taking an in-depth look at what consumers see when they are walking through each space. Students then discussed how that perception might look different […]

From the desk of Celia Tucker, Academic College Counselor: This past week I was fortunate to be invited to attend a Counselor Conference at Mississippi State University. I visited and networked with counselors from Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, and Alabama as we talked about similarities and differences between our campuses. It is the networking that […]

Mr. Steve Russell was on campus recently to visit with William Bunn and Cole Fitzgerald about William’s experience at Boy’s State this past summer and about Cole’s anticipated experience this summer. He explained the program to the two Brook Hill students with the highpoints listed below: Boy’s State encompasses many important objectives. The American Legion feels […]

Our Business Lab is looking different every day! The progress has really taken off, and we can’t wait for it to open up to our students!

Mrs. Brunson’s forensics class came to use their knowledge of blood spatters. By measuring a blood spatter, students can determine how far away a shooter was, where he was, type of weapon used. Students were given information from an actual person in history that was wounded or killed in battle. Mrs. Brunson made blood spatter […]

Two Middle School students, two Upper School students, and Brook Hill’s Teacher of the Year were honored this week at the Rotary Club of Tyler’s annual Tyler Rotary Young Citizen’s Club Banquet at the University of Texas at Tyler Ornelas Activity Center. Students were chosen based on exceptional practices of citizenship, cleanliness, thriftiness, loyalty, courtesy, […]

From the desk of Celia Tucker, Academic College Counselor: Brook Hill students traveled to Stephen F. Austin State University this week touring the campuses and visiting with admissions representatives. Students were reminded how important grades, ACT/SAT test scores, GPA, extracurricular activities, and study habits are in the world of college admissions. One of the great […]

From the desk of Celia Tucker, Academic College Counselor: I have been told that I tend to look at the world through rose-colored glasses. Okay, I admit it; I do, but from what I have found, the rose-colored glasses bring me so much more joy in life than the dark and dingy ones I have […]

From the desk of Celia Tucker, Academic College Counselor: When talking to the Class of 2022 right before their College Trip, I told them that the memories that come back to me when I think about their Middle School college trips I think of very polite, creative, jumping beans. Do you know how hard it […]