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. […]
HEADlines: A Message from the Head of School, Rod Fletcher The class of 2020 Senior Trip is in the books. I just had the privilege of spending a week with the Brook Hill Senior Class at an adventure camp in Glorieta, New Mexico. The weather was great, the views were stunning, and the activities were […]
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 […]
The Boarding Community is off and running. we had a great Welcome Week to kick off the new school year. Brand new students began arriving Thursday, August 8th and were taken through a number of orientation sessions and activities to get them Brook Hill ready (pictured). They were followed by returning students on Saturday the […]
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 […]
HEADlines – A message from the Head of School, Rod Fletcher As I enter my 16th year as Head of School at Brook Hill I am as excited as I have ever been about an upcoming year. As we launch into Brook Hill’s 23rd year we have been working hard to provide […]
From the desk of Shawn Rhoads, Director of Residence Life: Meet our Res Life Student Council for the 2019-2020 school year! These students will meet together with Mr. and Mrs. Dulany to discuss Res Life events, activities and entertainment. They will greatly impact the morale and spirit of the Boarding Community with the ideas and […]
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 […]
The Brook Hill School is proud to announce that Patti Eden has been named by the Executive Board of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools as the TAPPS Fine Arts Teacher of the Year for the 2018-2019 school year. Mrs. Eden has been the choral director for The Brook Hill School for 21 […]
Did you know that Brook Hill has a full-time athletic trainer on staff and that we have a student trainer program that gives students real life athletic training experience? We also just invested thousands of dollars in state of the art medical equipment for the care and treatment of our student athletes. Here is a […]
Mrs. Dawkins 4th grade class practiced their coding skills using a program called Blockly and Dash with their robots. Dash Robots are equipped with sensors, microphones, lights and motors that allow students to explore the world of robotics in a creative, collaborative and interactive way.
One of our Brook Hill parents, Dr. Blake Bextine spoke in a chemistry class this week about his job and how he uses science daily. Dr. Bextine works for DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a military agency that uses science to develop all kinds of interesting military strategies and defenses.