From the desk of Wally Dawkins, Athletic Director: This is the second of a Two Part Series. When I became the Head Boys Basketball Coach at Whitehouse, I was facing a monumental task.  First and foremost, I was asked to fill the shoes of legendary Hall of Fame Coach C.L. Nix.  Coach Nix had been […]

The trigonometry students at Brook Hill were asked to find the height of the flagpole in the quadrangle this week. By measuring the angles of elevation to the flagpole of two points collinear to the flagpole and by measuring the distance between the two points, students were able to solve the problem.  Adding a layer […]

After the testing this week, 4th graders entered the science classroom to floating ping-pong balls. The kids asked, “What’s going on here?” Mrs. Brindley explained that  the floating ping-pong ball is a wonderful example of  Bernoulli’s principle. Bernoulli, an 18th-century Swiss mathematician, discovered something quite unusual about moving air. He found that the faster air flows over the surface […]

The PreK classes have been studying insects and butterflies while watching caterpillars transform into butterflies in their classrooms for 2 weeks. This week, they released the butterflies!  

Karina Redfern and Jacob Yeager advance to the TAPPS State Golf Tournament in Glen Rose next Monday and Tuesday for their performance in last weekends tournament! Congratulate these two!

Phillip and Alec Kitt were named the Trinity Mother Frances Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Athletes of the Week on KETK for their performance in the state quarterfinals for tennis. Congratulate these young men on this honor!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfiLrDXKmpA?showinfo=0&w=560&h=315] From the desk of Glenn Ballard, Fine Arts Director: It is no secret that I love musical theatre. I love almost everything about it, including the many hours of hard work necessary to produce a high-quality show. But the thing that I love most  about a good musical is the music; telling a […]

Mrs. Brashier’s class took small breaks throughout testing week to get the wiggles out. Using the GoNoodle website, students were allowed to follow along with different characters from the websites. Each character gave directions on how to do different things. Student mimicked different activities such as walking on a tight rope, running a race with […]

Microsoft Excel was introduced to fifth grade students in the computer lab with the help of M&M candy. Students first grouped and counted colors of M&M’s.  Using this information,  they created a  simple Excel spreadsheet which included a pie chart. Students also formatted the data points to make each pie chart section match the colors of M&M’s.  Fifth graders were then able to […]

From the desk of Tammy Hayes, Middle School Principal: What does it mean to lead? How does the mere act of showing up to eat with someone qualify as leading? This is the topic we discussed with 30 of our students currently serving on the Middle School student leadership team.  Students were given the task […]

  Congratulate McCray Fletcher and Xiqing Lu on being honored by the Bullard Rotary Club as Students of the Month! These two students show exemplary character and strive for excellence in the classroom!

In chemistry we have been learning about acids and bases, and how they change the color of indicator solutions. So in the lab we got to see the colorful side of chemistry as we titrated (fancy word for mix) an acid with a base until the solution turned a nice shade of pink. Then the […]