8th grade Physical Science class built mousetrap cars for their spring project. Students were instructed to build a mousetrap car that could travel a distance of 5 meters. The only power used for their car was the mousetrap itself. Using their understanding of simple machines, students created their inventions, trying to travel the fastest and/or the […]
Anna Walker, from East Texas Medical Center, presented a trauma prevention program to our MS and US students on Wednesday, May 7. Her presentation was full of useful facts, and she showed several pictures from accidents and hospitals to underscore her points. Topics included: Why students should wear helmets when bicycling, skateboarding, or four wheeling. […]
Tuesday night MS/US Fine Arts students put their talents on display. MS/US Art students work lined the halls and foyers of Lauderdale for students and families to admire and adore. Then, at 7pm, our US Choir performed, with a special performance by our young men of “The Pirate King.” Following our choir, MS/US Orchestra students […]
Sixth graders are studying about planets in our solar system. To understand how they compare in sizes students made models using play doh. Each group started with 3lbs and followed steps to get the right ratio of each planet size. Jupiter was quite large compared to the tiny spec for Mercury!
Last Friday night our MS students had a mystery night and play. Before the Middle School spring play, MS students set out to solve a mystery. Someone had stolen the Henderson Cup from Coach Dawkins office, and our students solved the case by figuring out who stole it, with whose help, and why. Faculty dressed […]
Wednesday morning we celebrated our middle school athletes by having an awards ceremony. Among the highlights were the Mr. and Miss awards for each sport as well as the empty seats in the girls section while all our volleyball girls were on stage – a symbol of our thriving girls athletics program and our amazing […]
As part of their study of space in 6th grade science, students built and launched their own rockets into the sky! This is another example of how our teachers integrate differentiated instruction and interactive activities. Mrs. Wallace teaches our 6th graders and as well as science for our many of our Lower School grades. One of the […]
The dress rehearsals are over, the curtains are drawn – now all that’s left is “lights, camera, action!” Tonight (Friday, May 2nd) is the opening night of our spring musical, Hello, Dolly! If you haven’t reserved your tickets yet, there is still time! Showings will occur at 7:30 in the evening Friday & Saturday nights […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]