Brockbank's PTA is the Best!

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Brockbank's PTA is the best! To help celebrate "Teacher Appreciation Week" all during the week teachers and staff were spoiled with gifts, treats, and delicious food.  The A huge thanks to our wonderful PTA and especially to Christina Ashworth, who coordinated the week's activities. We would also like to thank Texas Road House and Outer Beauty for spoiling all of us! We love our PTA!! 

Brockbank Debate Excels at District Tournament

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Brockbank fifth and sixth-graders have been working hard the last few months preparing for the district debate tournament. Under the direction of Mrs. Sherry Bryson, students spent hours researching, dividing into affirmative and negative teams, and preparing oral arguments. At the district tournament out of approximately 100 overall students Brockbank students did extremely well. Students debated in teams of two, overall winners are in pairs. Ten total teams go on to state and Brockbank students make up two of those teams.

Brockbank Staff Spotlight

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Ms. Heidi Gammon is a technician in Mrs. Wendy Dimond's transitional kindergarten class. Heidi lives in Spanish Fork and has three sons and one daughter. She likes being in the outdoors & hiking, working out at the gym, doing crafts, watching movies, and playing games. Some of her favorites are the colors - pink, red, & black, snickers, reeses, popcorn, pizza, coke zero, listening to Journey & Micheal Buble`, the movies, "Footloose"& "Breakfast Club", and eating at Outbacks & Chilis. She enjoys watching softball and baseball, her team is the Detroit Tigers.

Brockbank Elementary Participates in the "Great Utah ShakeOut"

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Brockbank Elementary participated today, Thursday, April 16, in the "Great Utah Shake Out" that was held throughout Utah, by holding a school wide earthquake drill. The purpose is make sure everyone is ready if a big earthquake hits the Wasatch Front. Brockbank believes it is important to be ready by having monthly fire, earthquake, or lockdown drills throughout the year. It is important to know what to do if anything were to happen, we want our staff and students to be prepared.

Brockbank's Nelson Heroes for March

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Brockbank is happy to announce the Nelson Heroes for March!

Picture #1 - Rydan Currie, Cali Hernandez, Olivia Roberts, Adilyn Hanks, Brooklyn Fernandez, Principal Larraine Nelson, Brittney Shepherd, Mia Guzman, Jack Bowen, and Neil McKinney. Absent from photo, Garrett Van Tassell. 

Picture #2 - Macy Hullinger, Maisie Adams, Oaklee Giles, Principal Larraine Nelson, Andrew Fox, Hunter Hopes, Jaxon Almodova, and Mason Bingham. Absent from photo, Hannah Oldham.

 

Brockbank's Champions Challenge Reading Contest Winners!

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Spanish Fork is hosting the 2015 Wrangler Champions Challenge Rodeo again this year on Saturday, May 30 at the Spanish Fork Fairgrounds. To help promote the rodeo and at the same time to encourage students to read, the city offered a Champions Challenge Reading Contest. Students that met their reading goal for the month of March got his/her name put in a drawing where one student from each grade won two tickets to attend the rodeo. Out of those students, 2 lucky students were drawn to receive not only the 2 rodeo tickets but a pair of Justin boots.

Brockbank Students Pick Design for Next Year's School Spirit T-Shirt

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Brockbank PTA member, Amy Engle and the sixth-grade spirit committee decided to let the students create and pick the design on next year's school  t-shirt. A contest was held where students could submit a design. There were several great entries and it was hard to pick but the committee picked 3 designs for the student body to vote on. A winner was chosen and it was the design submitted by sixth-grader, Mackenzie Grzybowski, second place winner went to fifth-grader, Gentry Wolf and third place went to fifth-grader, Hadley Peck. 


Brockbank Second Graders Enjoy Farm Field Day!

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Brockbank second-graders recently went on a Farm Field Day held at Harward Farms in Springville. Farm Field Days is sponsored by the Farm Bureau and allows second-graders to see how a farm works and to learn about different things in agriculture. First they got to see a sheep be sheared and then the students split up and went to different stations where they got to sit on over turned buckets.

Brockbank Students Enjoy "Marva & Jessie" Assembly

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Brockbank has a character education program where each month, a different group of teachers and staff act out a common scenario that could happen any day at school. "Marva and Jessie" (a.k.a. Mrs. Terri Jensen, school counselor and Mrs. Kristel Peterson, sixth-grade teacher) are "students" at Brockbank who have different experiences each month that they share with the students. This year's topics were Friendship, Patriotism, Conflict Resolution, Hard Work, and most recently Self Confidence.