From the desk of Rod Fletcher, Headmaster: We started saying The Guard Charge as a school two years ago, but it is something I’ve spoken about for years. It is something I’ve said to my boys every night since they were little, and it is something I hope every member of The Brook Hill Family […]
Conversation and laughter could be heard as Brook Hill moms gathered for the annual Moms’ Coffee. Headmaster’s wife, Heather Fletcher, opened up her home Thursday morning to 55 ladies who joined for prayer, coffee, and conversation. Moms’ coffee is a great time for our Brook Hill moms to set aside a few hours to get […]
Kindergarten students have been busy over the last two weeks studying the letter “P”. Students plotted out their favorite kinds of pickles, used their senses to observe and study pop rocks, and even debated their favorite kind of popcorn.
Mrs. Newsom’s and Mrs. Brown’s 3rd grade classes visited the American Freedom Museum on Wednesday and did the unthinkable…they touched stuff!! Don’t worry! They had permission and a good time! As a way to introduce their year in U.S. History, our Brook Hill 3rd graders came for the “Can I Touch That?” tour. They found […]
Our Lower School Cheerleaders are continuing to practice with our Varsity Cheerleaders! These girls are learning how to cheer The Guard on to victory!
From the desk of Shawn Rhoads, Director of Residence Life: If you have been around Brook Hill for any length of time you know that continual improvement is a way of life. We are always asking ourselves, “How can we improve our boarding and day students’ educational experience and enhance their quality of student life?” […]
From the desk of Tammy Hayes, Middle School Principal: From the classroom to athletics, we had a lot of “firsts” in the middle school this week. It is our first year to run on a block schedule and on the blue/orange schedule. Classes are longer at 70 minutes and study hall is every Monday, Tuesday, […]
Eighth graders are learning about the design process. To introduce the subject, students were challenged to build a barge out of a 20 X 20 cm piece of foil and 4 straws that could hold the greatest amount of pennies. Students built the bridge and then tested it. The range of pennies held was from […]
Are you a Brook Hill mom? Then these events are for you! This year we are having gatherings for Moms throughout the year. Check it out:
Pre-AP sophomores and AP juniors gave their first presentations in Dr. Brunson’s humanities classes this week. Juniors presented literary-critical analyses of Robinson Crusoe within his historical context as an entrepreneur and colonialist. Students not only read the novel, but researched and analyzed Crusoe within history. Students then wrote essays on a selected subject, and presented […]
Our Lower School teachers did a wonderful skit for our students at chapel this week. In “If I Weren’t a Teacher”, our teachers imagined what they might be if they weren’t a teacher – a rock star, trombone player, baseball player, ballerina, taxi driver, princess, or even a cheerleader. In the end though, our teachers […]
AP Chemistry got to use some new technology this week as students were learning the relationship between concentration and the amount of light absorbed by a solution. We used a Vernier lab quest connected to a spectrophotometer to measure the absorbance values for samples of known concentration in order to generate a calibration curve. Then […]