From the desk of Dr. Ward, Director of Campus Life & Ministry: Congratulations Brook Hill Community! Students, teachers, and parents joined together on Thursday, April 10, and donated 28 units of blood. Carter Blood Care Center was especially impressed, because that was almost double our goal for the event. Seniors who donated twice during their senior year […]
Back Row (Left to Right): Favour Diokpo, Natalie Hall, Katarina Stadelmann, Tito Babatunde, Gabe Lucio, Tina Nivens (Art Teacher), Dylan Smith, Maddi Travis, Sunny Park, Brianna Crenshaw. Front Row (Left to Right): Tiffani Goddard, Eliza Kim, Summer Nasser, Cecili Kennedy. This past week our students competed with 24 other schools in TAPPS 3A across Texas […]
A handful of dedicated Varsity Orchestra students opted to take the Orchestra Conservatory course to better prepare themselves and the entire orchestra for the TAPPS State competition which would take place the Thursday following SPARC week. They spent the week in intensive practice utilizing various methods and groupings which included individual practice using music apps, […]
Fifty-three travelers from the Brook Hill School dove into the Puerto Rican culture during SPARC week. The first night, the group put their feet to work with salsa dancing followed by a dinner of traditional Puerto Rican cuisine. A highlight of the trip was jumping into the waterfall at El Yunque, the United States’ […]
Ms. Jeske’s Physics class is learning about light and optics. In this lab, students are exploring the how converging and diverging lenses bend light. Each lens bends light either toward or away from a focal point. By tracing three light rays, they were able to predict how the image of an object would be distorted depending […]
Choir: The Brook Hill Guard Chorale competed at the TAPPS State Vocal Meet on Friday at The University of Mary Hardin Baylor. The choir received Superior ratings on all 4 ensembles, as well as on their sight-reading event, which earned them the Sweepstakes award. This is when a choir receives a Superior rating for both […]
To be short, the goal for Strategy Games was to strengthen the mind and promote it as one’s greatest asset. While there were many physical activities that were done over the week (i.e. Ultimate Frisbee, Building, Rock Climbing, and Self Defense class at the local Dojo), which require physical skill, it was the “thinking things […]
During SPARC week students learned how to use their digital cameras. Students explored the various ways their cameras can manipulate and control light and how to get the right settings for various kinds of environments and situations. But students did more that take photos. They learned to tell stories, the fundamentals of journalism, and how […]
Ten young men along with Mr. Dement travelled to the Shenandoah Valley last week for a study in courage, character and leadership. Side trips included a day in snowy Washington, D.C., where the group attended a play at Ford’s Theater, an examination of the battlefields at Gettysburg and Bull Run, and a tour of Thomas […]
Students in Handmade Scrapbooking communicated their stories by organizing a meaningful presentation of pictures and memorabilia. Each student chose a theme, learned how to design scrapbook pages, shared their designs with each other, and then revised their designs as needed. This was accomplished through formal lectures, “hands-on” demonstrations and modeling, and individualized instruction. The girls […]
Our SPARC course had several different areas of focus within the arena of outdoor recreation. One part of the course focused on hunter education. We were privileged to have a Texas Parks and Wildlife certified instructional team to guide the students through the various parts of hunter education resulting in them receiving their hunter education […]
The 2014 SPARC Great American Cities Tour took us to Chicago, Illinois, which for good reason is called “the Windy City.” Our first outing was to Millennium Park where we saw the world famous “Cloud Gate,” also known as “the bean.” We also saw the world’s largest Tiffany dome in the Chicago Cultural Center. […]