Brook Hill Boarding students made the short drive to Peirce Equestrian Riding School for English riding lessons. The first hour students learned about horsemanship, grooming their horses and learning how to properly saddle them. The second hour was spent riding horses at the arena. The 75-acre setting was beautiful and the cool weather was perfect […]
As a school, we are continually striving to offer the best possible educational experience to our students and families. Your input is crucial to this endeavor and so we are inviting all our current families to participate in a confidential survey. We greatly value honest feedback about both strengths and areas for improvement. To that […]
From the desk of Ginger Bell, Director of Family and Alumni Relations: Alyssa Eden, ’13, says the transition to university was seamless and that she is enjoying playing volleyball at LeTourneau University. See the article on Alyssa recently published in the Jacksonville Daily Progress, and find out what she is up to! http://www.jacksonvilleprogress.com/sports/article_79c50146-4a67-11e4-b59d-17df7fadd828.html
From the desk of Rod Fletcher, Headmaster: There are many things I love about working at a school – the opportunity to help students mature into Christ-like young men and women who are ready to make a difference in the world and the privilege of working alongside dedicated and caring faculty. One of the things […]
2013 Winners From the Desk of Ila England, Lower School Librarian Our annual “Storybook Character Pumpkins on Parade” event is right around the corner. This is a fun family activity designed to encourage a love of reading and to promote the library. Pumpkins on Parade! October 27-31 What: Decorate a pumpkin to look like a character […]
Fourth grade science students examined live earthworms. Using hand lenses students watched lively worms and made an important discovery! Worms have 5 hearts!
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 […]