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Forest Fridays

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We are so excited to announce the start of Forest Fridays here at Brookstone this fall! What is Forest Friday? Forest Friday is a weekly class for kindergarten through third grade. The class is about connecting with nature, outdoor learning, and instilling adventure and exploration in our students. Research shows that students get minimal outdoor time and are spending more time indoors in front of screens and various other technologies. Yet other research shows that more time outdoors has a positive impact on our students’ behavior, mental health, and academics.  On […]

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Welcome New Faculty!

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We are thrilled to welcome these fantastic new faculty members to the Brookstone Family this year! As you can see from their bios below, this is an amazing group of people with an incredible range and depth of talent! It is our pleasure to welcome them to Brookstone! We know our students love them already! Go Cougars! Preschool Savannah Meadows – Preschool Teaching Assistant The Lower School is thrilled to have Savannah Meadows join the Pre-K team as the teaching assistant with Alissa Jordan. After graduating from Harris County High […]

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Graduation 2021

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Brookstone’s Graduation held special significance this year since it had been two years since our last full in person graduation! While we celebrated the Class of 2020 to the best of our ability in COVID-style, we were thrilled to be able to celebrate the Class of 2021 in the traditional manner! The Graduation festivities began with our Senior-Faculty dinner held at the beautiful Bibb Mill. Awards were distributed, honors bestowed, and the evening was the perfect way to kick off the weekend celebration. It’s always such a lovely evening showcasing […]

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Alumni March 2021

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It is one of our favorite traditions every year, the Alumni March! There’s nothing better than hearing cheers from the whole school as our seniors walk the quad and get ready for all the graduation festivities! Here’s to the Class of 2021 as they become official Brookstone Alumni later this week! We are so proud of you!

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Learning Center Inducted into NEHS

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Something amazing happened in the Brookstone Learning Center this week.  We’ll let Brookstone Upper School English teacher extraordinaire Dr. Jim East share the news: Brookstone School Learning Center Staff Inducted into the National English Honor Society It pleases the English Department to report that the staff of the Learning Center after two extraordinary covid seasons of coaching students through written tests, literary essays, rhetorical analyses and countless assessments and exams, has been inducted into the Carson McCullers’ Chapter of the National English Society. Chapters of the society are permitted to confer the dignity of membership […]

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Brookstone Wins Region in Literary Meet

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Congratulations to the Brookstone Literary Meet Team for winning the Region 4 A-Private Literary Meet earlier this week! Region 4 A-Private – 1st Place: Essay – Argumentative: Genesis Woods Essay – Personal: Ella Crowley Essay – Rhetorical: Stella Yancey Extemporaneous Speaking-Domestic: Evan Smallwood Extemporaneous Speaking – International: Lucy Wylie Oral Performance – Humorous: Olivia Willett Oral Performance – Dramatic: Mia Vongsavang Oral Performance – Duo: Ayo Oloyede & Harry Graham Boys Solo: Ayo Oloyede Girls Solo: Mia Vongsavang Trio 1: Mia Vongsavang, Catherine Jeffries, & Cassidy Rogers Quartet: Evan Smallwood, […]

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2021 Page One Awards

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This week’s Ledger-Enquirer Page One Awards resulted in lots of well-deserved recognition for several of our Brookstone Cougars! Congratulations to the following Cougars: Drew Albright, Winner, CSU General Scholarship Emma Gwan-Nulla, Winner, Science BJ Tillman, Winner, Social Science Ayo Oloyede, Runner Up, Drama Dre’a Singleton, Runner Up, Citizenship John Wang, Runner Up, Math The full slate of Brookstone nominees: Art – Rebecca Calhoun Athletics – Bo Blanchard Career & Technology – Dario Gomez Suarez Citizenship – Dre’a Singleton Drama – Ayo Oloyede English & Literature – Mary Saunders Foreign Language […]

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