The Rotary Club of Tyler recently honored students who were chosen to be members of the “Rotary Young Citizens Club.” To be chosen as an outstanding young citizen, a student must be exceptional in the practices of citizenship, cleanliness, thriftiness, loyalty, courtesy, honesty, service, dependability, sportsmanship, scholarship, and leadership. The select membership in this club […]
On April 28th, three Brook Hill students presented original poems at the Bullard Community Library Teen Poetry Contest. Allie Childers won first place and a $50 Barnes and Noble gift card, Favour Diokpo tied for second place, and Taylor Schultz won third place. Second and third place winners received new books of their choice. Congratulations, […]
Last Friday our 5th grade Spanish students were tasked to write original sentences in Spanish using position words and prepositions. Check out their creativity and language abilities in these examples: El huevo está entre la papa y la hamburguesa. The egg is in between the potato and the hamburger. La pluma está cerca de la […]
From the desk of Ginger Bell, Director of Family and Alumni Relations: God is so in control! It has been a long couple of days for BH mom, Paula Cool. Her mother was admitted to ICU on Wednesday with a brain aneurysm and other complications. At one point that day, there was a possibility of […]
From the desk of Travis Albea, Director of Marketing: Typically I try to cover individual classes and events to share with the Brook Hill community, but this Thursday morning I took an unconventional approach. I wanted to give a snapshot into all the various things happening at the Brook Hill MS/US in a window of […]
From the desk of Ginger Bell, Director of Family and Alumni Relations: Sarah Mullicane, ’10, brought lunch to the cabin last week and we had a great visit. What a privilege to get to reconnect with all our amazing graduates. Sarah is studying kinesiology at UTT and will graduate May 2015. She is also earning her […]
This week Brook Hill Tennis players brought home some state championship wins! Marisa Quevedo won state for ladies singles in TAPPS 3A, while Alec & Phillip Kitt won state for boys doubles! What an honor and a privilege to have these students at our school! Marisa has already signed to play Division 1 Tennis at Seton […]
Like our Kindergarten classes, PreK has also been learning about our great state. In celebration of the end of their unit on Texas, PreK students engaged in activities like horseshoes, barrel riding, lasso, cow patty toss, face painting, cow milking, and even received a personal brand on a piece of wood! Parents came to help […]
Our Art students participated in the ACSI Art Festival this week located at The Hope Center in Plano, Texas. There were over 500 works of art and around 20 private Christian 1A to 5A schools that competed from across the district. Each work of art is juried by three judges who score the piece using […]
April is National Poetry Month and Thursday, April 24, was “National Poem in Your Pocket Day”. All Brook Hill Lower School students were given a poem to put in their pockets to celebrate this special day. Raegan McCallum, our Technology Director, delivered a microphone and amplifier to the cafeteria so that students could read their pocket poems aloud using […]
Sixth grade art has been studying about artist Helen Cordero a Pueblo Indian, and her famous Storyteller of 1964 in slipped and painted earthenware. Codero’s art was about how the role of storytellers preserved the history of the Pueblo Indians. They are making their own contemporary version of a “storyteller” in order to introduce them to […]
Our 7th & 8th grade students displayed their vocal talent Tuesday night at their spring choir performance. Students sang numbers from previous middle school musicals, and some of our high school students and alumni who had performed in the musicals even came to sing their parts! It was amazing to hear their vocal abilities and to […]