Wednesday, Brian Nelson, Dean of Academics at The Brook Hill School, announced that Brook Hill senior, Jake Anderson, was been named a Commended Scholar in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program. About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Commended students placed among the top five percent of […]
Mrs. Bickerstaff’s third grade class performed for our Lower School at chapel this Wednesday. In a skit about “Fast Food with an Attitude,” students showed how attitudes like bitterness, anger, hate, apathy, and selfishness lead to a life of emptiness, while Christ-like attitudes like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (the […]
From the Desk of Dr. Ward On Thursday, October 16, Brook Hill will host the Carter Blood Care Center for our fall blood drive. Parents and students 16 and older are invited to stop by the student center to give blood between 9am and 2pm. For our spring drive last year, parents and students joined […]
Sixth graders presented their rock formation projects in class today. Each student was assigned a rock formation and had to research to find out what type of rock it was, how it formed and where it is located. Students then had to made a travel brochure to entice others to visit their rock formation. Some […]
Eight grade physical science students crushed cans on Thursday to observe pressure changes and changes of state in matter. In honor of playing Grace this week in football, Kade Carpenter wrote Grace Cougars on his can so we could “crush” Grace. Experiments were also done to further illustrate air pressure by pouring water into a […]
In chemistry we are currently learning about the how the periodic table was originally developed, so students re-created the circumstances in which Dmitri Mendeleev first recognized the repetitive patterns of properties of the elements. The students were given cards with nine different physical and chemical properties of 32 elements and asked to organize the cards in […]
Speech students were on the edge of their seats Wednesday morning when they had a visit from Mike Landess and Gillian Sheridan, news anchors for CBS 19. The duo gave students an inside look at their daily life at work, and spoke about the essentials of delivering the news live for all to see. It […]
“Be brief, be sincere, be seated.” Don’t we all wish those words spoken by Theodore Roosevelt were put into action by every public speaker today? We all remember powerful words spoken by leaders during critical times. Words like “Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done,” spoken […]
It was a honor and privilege for the Brook Hill Varsity String Ensemble to perform at the Meals on Wheels 41st Anniversary Banquet held Thursday, October 9 at the Green Acres Baptist Cross Walk Conference Center. The string ensemble comprised of violinists, Mimi Jackson, Minseo Kwak , Bailey Bickerstaff & director, Mrs. Jamie Reason; violists, […]
Mrs. Aycock’s AP Spanish class is focusing on the AP theme Familias y Communidades (families and communities) with an emphasis this week on the role and consequences of social media, as well as the Internet in general. Students discuss the pros and cons of Facebook after reading Facebook: el monstruo de las dos cabezas (Facebook: […]
This week’s middle and upper school chapel programs featured worship led by Peter and Ashely Docherty, worship leaders at Cross Pointe Community Church in Tyler. Click on this video clip to enjoy 30 seconds of chapel praise and worship. [wpvideo 4NYi3wwv]
Sixth grade Spanish students selected a project based on the culture of Spanish-speaking countries. Many students chose to make a popular dish from the country while others made a craft. As a result of their research, we sampled many food items including mole and menudo from Mexico, churros from Spain, baked plaintains from El Salvador, […]