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Great Book Week Parade

November 01, 2013

The Lower School students participated in many special activities and events during Great Book Week. The culmininating activity was the “Great Book Week” character parade. The entire student body dressed up as a story or real life character. The variety of characters included Pete the Cat, Mice and Cookies from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Office […]

Pumpkins on Parade!

November 01, 2013

Pumpkins on Parade was a very successful event at the Lower School Library! We had 45 students create pumpkin characters based on a favorite story character. All Brook Hill Lower School students then voted for their favorite pumpkin. The “Children’s Choice” award winners are pictured on the front row below. The first place winner was Wilbur from […]

Artist Maddi Travis Wins!

October 25, 2013

Brook Hill’s Freshman Maddi Travis won several visual arts awards at the 98th East Texas State Fair September 23-27 in Tyler Texas. Maddi placed first with a portrait painting in acrylic and second and honorable mention with two prisma color pencil drawings in the youth creative arts division. This year’s event was held in Tyler […]

Walk Thru the Bible (The Old Testament That Is..)

October 25, 2013

From the desk of Dr. Ward: MS students traveled through time and space today – walking through the people, places, and events of the Old Testament. Jon Polk, a minister from Waco, TX and presenter for Walk Thru the Bible, led our students through the Walk Thru the Bible OT Live seminar. Since a picture […]

Aquatic Ecosystems at Brook Hill

October 24, 2013

The AP Environmental Science class has been learning about the importance of certain insects that start their lives in the bottom of streams and ponds. They took a short walk to the pond in front of Founder’s Hall this week to get a first-hand look at these insects. They found many different types of organisms […]

Thermochemistry

October 24, 2013

The AP Chemistry class has been studying thermochemistry, during which they have learned how heat is involved in chemical reactions. In order to get some hands-on experience they went to the lab this week to test some different ingredients for hand warmers, a perfect study now that it is beginning to get cool outside.

ACE is the Place: The New and Improved Upper School ACE

October 24, 2013

From the desk of Brian Nelson, Dean of Academics: The goal of the Academic Center for Excellence is to oversee the academic success of the students by providing a variety of services in order to empower them to be successful at Brook Hill and beyond.  Since its opening in 2010, ACE has proven to be […]

Ahoy Columbus!

October 24, 2013

Mrs. Dawkins’s fourth grade students created their own costumes and props for a reader’s theatre performance about the life of Christopher Columbus.

Student Initiated Clubs at The Brook Hill School

October 18, 2013

From the Desk of Dr. Stan Ward: This week Brook Hill launched our student initiated clubs program for MS and US students. Students had the opportunity to create their own clubs which are now beginning to meet. To form a club, students had to fill out an application that included the club’s name, purpose, proposed […]

8th Grade Football

October 18, 2013

Brook Hill Middle School 8th Grade Football Players get ready for Dallas Christian. The Guard 8th Grade downed the Chargers 28-0.