TMSCA champs
BCS LADY BEARS (21-3) MAKE CEN-TEX TOP 10
The Lady Bears basketball team was recognized by the Austin American-Statesman as one of the top ten teams in Central Texas last week. This weekly ranking includes both public and private schools in the area. The Lady Bears also received a #7 state ranking among small private schools by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches. The Lady Bears improved their record to 3-0 in district, 21-3 overall, with big wins over local rivals St. Dominic Savio and Round Rock Christian. The Lady Bears are seeking their sixth district championship in the last seven years and a fourth trip to the state tournament.
Open House
Come Tour our Campus!!
Brentwood Christian School Admissions Open House
Preschool – Grade 12
Sunday, February 12, 2012
2:00 – 4:00
We cordially invite you to come tour our campus and visit with faculty, students, parents, and administration. Come hear more about our Christ-centered curriculum for preschool through 12th grade. Learn how we teach our children to love God while providing them an exemplary education preparing them for their college experience. We would love to meet you and show you why we love this school so much!
Come join us!!
RACHEL'S CHALLENGE COMMUNITY EVENT AT BRENTWOOD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
- A one-hour secondary assembly (grades 6-12)
- A one-hour elementary assembly (grades K-5)
- An hour-and-a-half secondary student leadership training
- A 7:30-8:30 p.m. community and parent assembly, to which you are invited
BCS administrators and teachers have been concerned that, even in a Christian school and even with all the strong moral influence of our wonderful families, we still see unkind behavior in students at our school. Any time a child is hurt by another's rude attitude or words or actions, we know that we are not achieving our mission as God would have us do it. From what we had seen and heard, we believed that a day-long Rachel's Challenge event would be a strong and positive way to address that problem and build a more loving and compassionate school culture.
Please join us at 7:30 Monday evening, where you will hear a stirring summary of what was presented to students during the day and will learn about the potential lasting effects of Rachel's Challenge. Please feel free to invite other family members and friends from church or community. This message is something that everyone needs to hear.
Baptist Community Services Strengthens Commitment to BCS
Representatives of the former Sybil B. Harrington Trust and the Baptist Community Services of Amarillo visited Brentwood Christian School for the first time last week and were so impressed that they decided to continue donations to the Center for Science and the Arts indefinitely beyond the current $250,000 commitment.
BCS receives 15 percent of quarterly oil and gas royalty receipts from certain Harrington Funds, which are administered by Baptist Community Services, and has received $154,000 to date, an average of $30,000 per year. These payments were to have ended when the $250,000 commitment is fulfilled in about three years.
Laurie McWeeney, adviser to the Harrington Funds, and Steve Dalrymple, CEO of the Baptist Community Services, visited the K-2nd grade chapel, toured the campus, and ended with a tour of the Center for Science and the Arts last week, escorted by Jeff Boyd, who helped BCS get the grant. A former BCS board member, Jeff is the father of BCS senior Carter Boyd and 2010 graduates Hanna and Abbie Boyd.
Jeff said Ms. McWeeney “liked everything about the school. It was great to see someone who had no prior experience or connections to BCS be so impressed.” Mr. Dalrymple contacted Jeff the next day with the news that the fifteen percent quarterly payments would be extended indefinitely.
A portrait of Sybil B. Harrington and a description of her generosity to the Arts, which included a major gift to the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, has been placed in the CSA.
BCS Wins Old Navy Playscape
BCS won a playscape and $5,000 from Old Navy and TerraCycle, a recycling company, in September after teacher Michelle Mohrmann filled out a survey last April. Ten representatives from area Old Navy stores attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the lower elementary playground on Tuesday afternoon, Sep. 27.
Students from kindergarten through second-grade will use the new equipment, which was made from recycled flip flops and milk cartons. The playscape will accompany the various play structures already out on the playground, such as a merry-go-round, a boat, and a swing set.
More than 20 parents and volunteers helped set up and assemble the playscape last Friday and Saturday, Sep. 23-24. On Friday, the volunteers dug the footers for the playscape to go into the ground and built the retaining border. The next day they assembled the playscape, poured the concrete into the footers to secure and stabilize the new structure, and mulched the ground around it.
Two BCS Students Named National Merit® Finalists; 4 Named Commended Scholars
Seniors Andrew Beach and Matthew Gardner became the eighth and ninth Brentwood Christian students in school history to be named as National Merit® Finalists by the National Merit® Scholarship Corporation. Beach and Gardner scored in the top 1 percent nationwide on the PSAT/NMSQT exam they took in the fall of their junior year.
