Class of 2021 College Choices
Congratulations to the Class of 2021! We are so proud of you!
Brookstone Receives Sportsmanship Award
Congratulations to the Brookstone Athletic Department who was chosen by the members of our region to receive the Sportsmanship Award for the 2020-2021 school year. The criteria for this award includes host school hospitality, coaches sideline demeanor, athlete demeanor during competition, and game and campus experience. Jimmy Messer, our Athletic Director, thanked all who played a part in making it happen in an email sent to the school. He wrote, “Thank you to everyone who played a role in helping our school receive this recognition. I appreciate the way our families, coaches, […]
Superstar Shout Out to Robby Davis!
It’s not every day an international superstar gives you a shout out as his hero! But that’s exactly what happened recently to our very own Robby Davis! Robby, who teaches Upper and Middle School Fine Arts, also taught country music superstar and ACM Entertainer of the Year, Luke Bryan. Recently Luke shared in an ACM video that Robby as his “super-hero!” How awesome is that!? Robby’s influence continues in the lives of students every day here at Brookstone. Here’s a list of awards and honors our Fine Arts students have […]
Learning Center Inducted into NEHS
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 […]
Brookstone Wins Region in Literary Meet
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, […]
2021 Page One Awards
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 […]
Our Preschool Library is Now Open!
Our Preschool library is up and running! The children have enjoyed this new location for story time with Mrs. Trotter, our Lower School Librarian, and selecting their first books to take back to their classrooms. The library is arranged like a classroom library with bins of books gathered in topical or thematic groups. Books are displayed in the bins with the front covers facing forward which supports young children in making choices. Many thanks to Mrs. Mobley for working to organize and label all of the books and for committing […]
Intermediate School Genius Hour
From Intermediate School Principal, Javonne Stewart We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something that is provided for us and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves. – Stephen Downes Every year, I set short and long term goals for myself as an individual and as a professional. One of my goals is to make sure that every student that crosses my path knows their worth, knows that they belong, and has established the beginnings of something they are passionate […]
“Voices of Change” Poetry Slam
In January, Brookstone celebrated the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by honoring the theme of “Voices of Change.” The overall purpose of this theme was twofold: to remember the strength, perseverance, and integrity of one who is the voice of one of history’s quintessential movements for change and to know that his legacy continues on in all of us. As one part of our celebration of “Voices of Change,” students were asked to enter Brookstone’s very first Poetry Slam. Poetry Slams originated in Chicago, Illinois, as a way to […]
One Act Play – Region Champs AGAIN!
Congratulations are in order for the Upper School One Act cast and crew as they won the GHSA region championship today for their show One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. This is Brookstone’s second year in a row clinching the region title! We are so incredibly proud of these kids! Senior Sam Kilgore and junior Evan Smallwood were recognized as All Star Cast members and senior Ayo Oloyede won Best Actor and junior Olivia Willett won Best Actress. Congrats to Mr. Robbie and Mrs. Dottie Davis and the entire Brookstone […]
