Academics

Celebrating 70 Years – A Look Back at Brookstone

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Throughout this school year we have enjoyed celebrating Brookstone’s 70 anniversary – 70 years that encompass a remarkable history and vision built on a solid foundation of values.  This important milestone has given us a chance to celebrate our founding, reflect on our success, revel in the sense of community we’ve built over seven decades, and imagine our next 70 years.  To celebrate the 70th anniversary, we invited several people to reflect on Brookstone’s history in a video story. Two things were evident, the values that Brookstone was founded on […]

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Service

15th Annual Upper School Day of Service

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Just before Spring Break, our Upper School students took part of Brookstone’s 15th annual Day of Service. Spreading out around the Columbus area, our students partnered with 14 different local agencies to help them with everything from painting to landscaping to playing with kids! Before the work began, we gathered our students together to hear from a special guest. Brookstone parent Colonel Jim Hathaway, soon to return Ft. Benning to command the 198th Infantry Brigade, visited with our students and spoke about Servant Leadership and how we can offer hope […]

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Academics

3K Doctor Day and A Vocab Parade!

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There was lots of activity here on campus today! We had 3K Doctor Day and a Vocab Parade! First up, 3K Doctor Day – where all of your ailments could be tended to. Need a Band-aid? A quick MRI? Or perhaps you just need a good blood pressure check to get you through your day! No need to look further than our 3K classrooms where lots of future doctors were hard at work! After you had received all necessary treatment, it was time to head to the most spectacular, colorful, […]

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Arts

Celebrating the Arts!

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It’s been a really exciting week around here when it comes to Brookstone’s fine arts! Join us in congratulating all of the following students! First up, congratulations to the Brookstone Literary Meet Team for winning the Region Championship with a score of 80 out of 84.  Winners include: Essay – Argumentative, Genesis Woods – Runner-upEssay – Personal, Ella Crowley – Runner-upEssay – Rhetorical, Creight Lawrence – ChampionExtemporaneous Speaking – Domestic, Ava Chhokar – ChampionExtemporaneous Speaking – International, Zoe Zwickey – ChampionOral Performance – Humorous, Frances Cottrell – ChampionOral Performance – Dramatic, Olivia Willett- ChampionOral […]

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Alumni

It’s Great to Be a Brookstone Cougar!

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A recent social media post from one of our 5th grade teachers summed up perfectly the bond our students and teachers share here at Brookstone. She wrote: “I was on the playground with my kiddos today when one of my ‘former’ kiddos walked up and gave me a hug! As our school continues to grow, it takes engineers and brains to plan and oversee! You are looking at the TOP DOG!!! I am so proud of you, Tim! This makes it all worthwhile. Precious child; dynamic young man!!! HARD WORK […]

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Academics

Middle and Upper School BLI Update

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We held our spring Sprint® Closing Workshop for the Middle and Upper Schools last week and I wanted to share a little bit about what we discussed. We kicked off the workshop with a video celebrating some of our student accomplishments over this past year. Please know this is not an all inclusive highlight video as there are many more achievements also worthy of celebration, but for our purposes, it allowed us to celebrate what we can accomplish when we set out to do it!  You can watch the video below: So […]

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Academics

Brookstone’s STAR Student 2022

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Brookstone School is proud to announce its STAR Student/Teacher Award winners: Joe Hilsman and Mr. Matt Lage. The STAR Student Award goes to the Brookstone student with the highest SAT score on one given test; this student then competes on the local level to include twelve schools. Joe Hilsman is a member of the National English, Latin, Science, and Math Societies. He has been a member of the Honor Council for three years, Latin Club President, and Founder of the Pre-Med Club. Joe is a servant leader, shown by his […]

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Middle School

Middle School Trip Week 2021

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For the first time in two years, we were able to send our Middle School students out on the road for their annual class trips! Our 8th-graders headed to the beautiful moutains of Flat Rock, North Carolina to camp and hike. Our 7th-graders got to spend some time in lovely, historic Savannah, Georgia. And our 6th-grade students enjoyed a one day excursion to Desoto Caverns in Childersburg, Alabama. Though it was a rainy week for everyone, memories were made, life lessons learned, and fun was had by all!

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Athletics

6th Annual Brookstone Under the Lights

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Last week, we held the sixth annual Brookstone Under the Lights! It might be one of the most favorite events we have here at Brookstone. It’s an event especially for moms and their boys, but the best part of the night is the interaction between the youngest cougars and members of our Varsity Football team. It’s such a fun evening for all of those invovled! As one of our teachers said, “This event always displays #WhyBrookstone! I love seeing our students of all ages interacting with each other! It’s a […]

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Blanchard Leadership Institute

Blanchard Leadership Institute Fall 2021 Update

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It’s been a busy fall for the Blanchard Leadership Institute. We concluded the Faculty Sprint in August and the Upper School Sprint in September and we just got underway with the Middle School Sprint last week. We’ve been busy! But we’ve also been productive. We have no taken no less than 450 members of our community through a Developmental Sprint since the beginning of the school year. That’s a lot of potential growth happening right there. After all, that is what the Sprint is all about, utilizing researched driven, Harvard-based […]

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