Wednesday, October 8, for Red Ribbon Week students wore purple to represent that, "Brockbank students will "Eliminate Violence". Teachers reinforced the importance to students of being violence free.
Tuesday, October 7, during lunch recess the sixth-grade Red Ribbon Student Council took out the parachute and played a shark game with the second graders. The theme was “Don’t Let Drugs Bite You!” Each day student council members play a game with a different grade. Monday, they played Frisbee with the first-graders. The theme was "Fly Away From Drugs!"
Tuesday, October 7, Brockbank students show their unity by wearing red as Red Ribbon Week continues. "Say No to Drugs!"
Brockbank fifth-grade students learning Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) training taught by Officer Bryan DeWitt of the Spanish Fork Police Department, recently got to participate in an activity. The activity was on the potential dangers of being intoxicated and it's effects on the person's reflects, judgement, and overall ability to do simple tasks. The students were given goggles to wear that simulate being under the influence and asked to ride a scooter through cones and throw a football.
Brockbank students to go along with Red Ribbon Week activities Monday made posters in their classrooms pledging to be drug free. The posters will hang in the lunch room all week.
October 6 - 10, 2014 is Red Ribbon Week at Brockbank Elementary. Many exciting events have been planned for the week. Monday, Oct. 6, was "Take a Stand Against Drugs!" The students were given a red wrist band to wear all week and pledge to stay drug free. A drawing will be held each day with four t-shirts (2 for grades Kindergarten-2 and 2 for grades 3-6) will be given but to be included in the drawings the student has to have their wrist band on.
Brockbank is happy to spotlight Mrs. Vickie Probst!
Friday, October 3, Kindergarten students at Brockbank Elementary celebrated Apple Day at school. The students participated in several different activities including tasting apples in several different forms; cut in slices, applesauce, pie, and juice; deciding which color of apple they like best, doing math and science activities involving apples, and illustrating their own apple books. It was a fun educational day that the students enjoyed.