Brook Hill students had a fantastic showing at the East Texas State Fair in the Creative Arts Competition and the Photography Competition! Layne Whitten A 7th / Self Portrait Pencil (Graphite) #54 Portraits 1st Place / Best in Show Madyson McEuen A 8th / Self Portrait Pencil (Graphite) #54 Portraits 1st Place / Best in […]
From the desk of Jessica Mize, SPARC Coordinator: This week during an Upper School assembly held for all students not already signed up for SPARC, our student body was enlightened regarding all of the amazing SPARC courses available this year. Each SPARC instructor came before the student body and described their course in detail. Students […]
Eighth grade is making models of each of the different atomic theories. Students used Play Doh, Petri dishes, beans and peas to illustrate each idea and students had to name the scientist whose theory each model represented. A good concrete way to learn the different theories.
From the desk of Candise Wise, Head Volleyball Coach: The 2017-18 Lady Guard Volleyball Season is well underway. The girls have fought through a tough preseason and have grown to become more of a team each time they step on the court. Yesterday, instead of practicing our skills on the court we bonded more as […]
From the desk of Candise Wise, Head Volleyball Coach: Brook Hill MS Lady Guard 8th A and 7th A played lights out this past weekend in the Bullard MS Tournament. Both teams faced off against Grace, Rusk, and Bullard. The 8th A team fell to Grace early in the morning but came back to beat […]
From the desk of Candise Wise, Head Volleyball Coach: This is the second year after launching this program. Pepper Pals is a program I started last year to help bridge the gap between our middle school volleyball program and upper school volleyball program. I wanted to help make the younger volleyball players fell more engaged […]
From the desk of Tammy Hayes, Middle School Principal: It’s that time of the school year where the new has begun to rub off, reality is starting to kick in, and everyone is realizing the level of work it requires. No worries; we mix it up at The Brook Hill School with lots of activities […]
Mrs. Wallace and her 8th grade science classes visited the American Freedom Museum this week for our “History Under A Microscope” tour and activity. We have discovered that students often learn a concept or are introduced to an evaluating tool during class, such as the Scientific Method, but they never learn how to recognize the […]
We had an awesome time at the Warrior Bowl on Saturday as the USA took on Canada (and won 51-27). Check out all the fun we had at the tailgate party and the game!
In concordance to our Guard Charge, we were able to “Serve Others” by having two donation centers on campus for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Our Dean of Students, Bobby Brasher, took the supplies to Turning Point Church in Vidor this week to deliver them to victims and begin to help clean up. <iframe
Eighth graders are learning about the design method used in science. Students were challenged to build a barge out of a 20 X 20 cm piece of foil and 4 straws. The contest was to build the barge that would hold the most pennies before taking on water.
Our Class of 2018 led a combined Middle and Upper School chapel this week as many of them shared about different aspects of the Guard Charge and how they got to implement it on their senior trip last week. They also encouraged students younger than them to “Live Pure. Speak True. Right Wrong. Serve Others. […]