BB 09-04-26

BRADFORD BULLETIN

VOLUME XIX, ISSUE 10

SEP 4,  2026

 

FROM THE OFFICE

IMPORTANT NOTES:  

  • House T-shirt and Sticker Orders:   pre-order house T-shirts and stickers! Deadline is September 9th.  This is the only sale for the year!  Students can wear their shirts to the House Socials, Greek Olympics, spirit day, and other fun house competitions happening throughout the year.  
  • Hot Lunch:  The Senior class is providing the opportunity for students to receive hot lunches every Wednesday as a fundraiser for their trip to Rome!  You ORDER HERE.  Remember to order by Sunday for the following week.  Pro Tip:  Order one month at a time and check it off your mental list.

LOWER SCHOOL IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • FROM MRS. MITCHELL:  If you’re heading out of town or even doing a day trip this weekend, here is a recommendation for your travel time:  What God Requires of Children – Jones Ndzi   Jones Ndzi, one of the teaching pastors at Grace Reformed Baptist Church, has 5 sons at Bradford.  Though Bradford is an independent non-profit organization, we share a lot of the same language concerning obedience and biblical discipline.  Your family would profit from listening to his exposition of God’s word.  (This is part of a summer series on the family, which includes other messages on wisdom  from the Proverbs.)  One notable characteristic is that in this sermon he speaks directly to the children several times throughout the message.  As parents, it’s a rare opportunity to have someone instruct your children in your hearing!  I believe all would benefit from this summer series.  Enjoy the long weekend!

UPPER SCHOOL IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • Upper School Bonfire:  TONIGHT, 6:30 – 8:30.  5th – 12th grade students are invited!  The bonfire will be at the lower school campus. (939 S. Third Street)

UPCOMING

NEXT WEEK:

  • MON 09/07:  Labor Day – no school
  • TUES 09/08:  5:30PM – Varsity Volleyball – AWAY
  • WEDS 09/10:  4:00PM – Varsity Womens Tennis – HOME
  • THURS 09/10:  
    • 8:00AM – TK Scarf Ceremony – parents invited
    • 4:00PM – Middle School Boys Soccer – HOME
    • 7:30PM – Varsity Volleyball – AWAY
  • FRI 09/11:
    • 3:30PM – Varsity Mens Soccer – HOME
    • 4:00PM – Varsity Womens Tennis – HOME

IN THE NEAR FUTURE:

  • TUES 09/29:  ACC College Fair (10th – 12th grades)
  • WEDS 09/30:  Field Trips:  NC Botanical Garden – 4th grade
  • THURS 10/01:  Field Trip:  Alamance Battleground – 1st and 5th grades
  • FRI 10/02:  Field Trip:  Greensboro Science Center – 3rd grade
  • 10/5 – 10/9:  FALL BREAK – no school
  • Week of 10/12:  Intensive Short Term (9th – 12th grades)
  • FRI 10/16:  Plymouth House Social (5:30 – 7:30PM)
  • SAT 10/17:  Leiden House Social (5:30 – 7:30PM)
  • WED 10/21:  Parent-Teacher Conferences (sign ups to come)
  • FRI 10/23:  Austerfield House Social (5:30 – 7:30PM)
  • SAT 10/24:  Scrooby House Social (5:30 – 7:30PM)
  • WED 10/28:  Upper School and Fall Sports Team Picture Day 
  • THURS 10/29:  Lower School Picture Day
  • FRI 10/30:  K – 4th Greek Olympics
  • THURS 11/5 – FRI 11/6:  Upper School – Parents Days (more info to come!)
  • MON 11/9 – TUES 11/10:  9th grade – Jamestown, Yorktown, and Williamsburg
  • MON 11/9 – WED 11/11:  10th and 11th grades – Washington DC trip
  • WED 11/11:  Veterans Day – no school

 

FROM THE TEACHER’S DESK

GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Transitional Kindergarten (Mrs. Grubb and Mrs. Weber)

fgrubb@bradfordacademy.org,  cweber@bradfordacademy.org

  • TK students enjoyed a week of new routines. We began centers this week which is where students are in small groups with a teacher doing a specific activity or lesson. The students rotate in his/her group to each center so they participate in all 3 centers. A few of our centers this week included: working on Creation books, listening to songs/games with wood pieces, learning about seeds and gardening, free expression of art to music, and exploring alphabet puzzles. We also added a weekly music time into our routine. Music with Mrs. Bennington will take place on Wednesdays for TK. Our math time included skywriting numbers 7-9, counting to 5 using bears, pattern blocks and linking cubes. This week we also explored each student’s special letter (the first letter of his/her name). 5 day students decorated their special letters and all TK students practiced identifying and saying each other’s letters. We began focusing on special letters of words during our morning meeting time as well. We read several books about Mat Man and learned the parts of a book including: front, back, spine, pages, author and illustrator. A theme activity for the week was exploring our 5 senses. Students even began learning a new song to remind them of the senses that God gave us. We began our study of Creation this week. Our focus was on Days 1-3 and next week we will continue with days 4-7. Students will bring home creation books next week. We added Psalm 19:1 to memory. This verse reminds us that creation declares the glory of God.  

Lower School Art (Mrs. Knight)

tknight@bradfordacademy.org

3rd
  • In third grade art on Tuesday, we reviewed some of our art memory work which includes art vocabulary. We will be using these terms as we view famous works of art as well as when we create art of our own. We have been decorating our sketchbook covers with the elements of shape. We are using lots of colors as we sketch lines, circles, dots, and angles. 
4th
  • Fourth graders are learning the Elements of Art. As we learn about each one, we are using it to decorate the covers of our sketchbook. Ask your child if s/he can recall the elements we covered in class. So far we have learned LINE, SHAPE, FORM, VALUE, and COLOR. 

Lower School PE (Mrs. Bennington)

gbennington@bradfordacademy.org

  • Students did a great job in PE this week with following directions, practicing procedures, and playing various directional games. Students demonstrated strong sportsmanship this week!

Lower School Music (Mrs. Bennington)

gbennington@bradfordacademy.org

  • Students did a great job in music this week following directions and practicing procedures.  Second, third, and fourth graders continued working on singing two part harmony in “Non Nobis”.   The same students also started learning about what the terms rhythm and beat are in music and how they work together. All students  worked on the  first and second verse of “Holy, Holy, Holy”. 

Kindergarten (Mrs. Rivera and Miss Burdeshaw)

brivera@bradfordacademy.org,  vburdeshaw@bradfordacademy.org

This Week: 

Our kindergarten scholars have been working hard in all subjects! In math, we learned how to identify “as many as,” fewest, and most. We also learned how to make equal groups and reviewed how to write our numbers.  In phonics, we introduced some new phonogram sounds (the loop letters), and reviewed the cursive clockface letters a, c, d, g, o and qu. In history, we discussed Adam and Eve’s fall into sin. Because of their disobedience against God, the world became cursed. But God had a plan for redemption through his son, Jesus! In art, we discussed five different types of lines: curved, zig-zagged, horizontal, diagonal, and vertical. The students learned how to identify and make shapes with these various lines. In science, we introduced our unit on the five senses. This week we discussed the sense of sight. We learned about a man named Louis Braille, who invented a way for blind people to read. The students also had the opportunity to test their vision by looking at an eye chart. We hope that you enjoy the long  Labor Day weekend!

Memory Work: 

Ecclesiastes 9:10 and review

1st Grade (Ms. Griffin & Mrs. Smith)

jgriffin@bradfordacademy.org,  asmith@bradfordacademy.org

This Week: 
  • We start each day with forum. During that time the students practice the hymn, pledge, preambles, catechisms, and Bible verse. We often talk about the books of the Bible, a story from the Bible, or look up Bible verses. We take every opportunity available throughout the day, in every subject, to teach God’s word and Biblical lessons. The students are learning about adding three addends, missing addends, breaking down numbers, doubles and doubles plus ones in chapter 2 of Sadlier math. They are also learning about the months, days of the week, seasons, time, patterns, counting, and money during our math meeting in the morning. Additionally, they are learning to memorize their facts. We read the book My Clara, a fantasy about a bird that can turn into a lady and is friends with a girl named Clara. The kids loved singing in high voices, “My Clara!” We strive to teach the kids to add expression to their reading. In Spelling, they had their first list of 20 words in one week and did well on their assessments. The kids have enjoyed starting to review the lowercase cursive letters. In history, the students are learning about Columbus and how he was inspired by stories he heard of Leif Erkison. They really enjoy singing “The Eastern Border of The United States”. Ask them to sing it for you.
Memory Work:  
  • Psalm 145:9
Upcoming:      
  • Monday September 7 is Labor Day – No School

2nd Grade (Miss Verroi & Mrs. Fredrick)

overroi@bradfordacademy.org,  yfredrick@bradfordacademy.org

This Week: 

It has been a busy but fruitful week in Second Grade!  Our memory verse in Hebrews 11:6-7 correlated well with our study of The Flood.  We are striving to live our lives pleasing to God like Noah did.  We are all on the lookout for rainbows now and will be reminded of God’s promise to never flood the entire earth again.  We enjoyed the story of a dog named Tornado and the students had an opportunity to pretend to be Pete and add an additional story to the book. Our adventure in grammar continues as we learn about adverbs and add to our Question/Answer flow to classify sentences.   In math we have worked hard honing our subtraction skills and learning to use different subtraction strategies. We hope you have a delightful and restful long weekend and a happy Labor Day!

Table Talk:
  • Ask your child to tell you the story they wrote about Tornado.
Memory Work:
  • Proverbs 26:17

3rd Grade (Mrs. Clark & Mrs. Martin)

wclark@bradfordacademy.org ,  amartin@bradfordacademy.org

This Week : We are continuing our exploration into the world of the Greeks and the Trojans. Students have begun reading the Classic Start’s version of The Iliad. With one simple act, the goddess of discord started a chain reaction that would end in the destruction of a people.  Third grade has been full of big words, and we have set out to discover their meanings. In math, we estimated sums by rounding to the nearest tens and hundreds and reviewed even and odd numbers. Our history card was about the Trojan War this week, which tied in with The Iliad. In Latin, we have also learned how to decline nouns and that nouns have gender, number, AND case! It has been a learning-heavy week, and we look forward to the rest that God gives us on Labor Day!
Upcoming Memory Work: 

Proverbs 23:22-23

Upcoming:
  • Greensboro Science Center, October 2, 2026

4th Grade (Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Rankin) 

agraham@bradfordacademy.org,  srankin@bradfordacademy.org

This Week

St Jerome Completes the Vulgate

It’s been a busy and full week in Fourth Grade. We learned about  St. Jerome, a monk and a scholar who lived in a cave in Bethlehem and completed the second more precise Latin translation of the Bible. In math, we continued to work with place values, rounded numbers to estimate sums, and studied the  properties of addition. In Latin, we continue to learn new strategies to “crack the code” of translation by learning to parse Latin nouns. In science we created perfect habitats for seeds to sprout and grow, and we’ll be recording our observations in science journals to watch this amazing transformation occur. Philippians 4:6-7– the passage which tells us to be anxious for nothing– also led to some encouraging understanding about what to do with our worries and God’s promise to give us His peace when we go to Him. 

Upcoming Dates: 

NC Botanical Gardens Field Trip, Friday, October 2, 2026

 

LOGIC SCHOOL

Mrs. Bennington

gbennington@bradfordacademy.org

5th-6th Band
  • Students did a great job in band this week practicing procedures and expectations for class. Sixth grade did a great job reviewing the basics of playing from last year and working on several rhythm exercises. New sixth grade  students are doing a great job getting caught up and returning students are doing well making more mature sound. Students did a great job on their playing test this past Thursday. Fifth grade worked on counting rhythms, reading music, and how to use their lips to make a sound on their mouthpieces. Students also learned how to put their instruments together,  take them apart , and how to play their first note. Please encourage your child to practice what we work on in class at home. 
7th-8th Band
  • Students did a great job in band this week practicing procedures and expectations for class. Students also did a great job playing through several book exercises.. A lot of focus was put on posture, breathing,  making good sounds, articulation, and dynamics. Students did a great job on their playing test this week. Please encourage your child to practice what we work on in class at home. Just a reminder students will need their Foundations for Superior Performance  book by next week. 
High School Band
  • Students did a great job in band this week practicing procedures and expectations for class. Students also did a great job playing through several book exercises and other pieces of music. A lot of focus was put on posture, breathing,  making good sounds, articulation, and dynamics.  Students spent a lot of time on their full-range concert F scale and arpeggio and did well showcasing their hard work on their scale test. Please continue to encourage your child to practice what we work on in class at home. 

Mrs. Johnston

sjohnston@bradfordacademy.org

5th – 8th Choir – Hymn of the Week To God Be the Glory
  • 5th Choir worked rhythms of whole, half, and quarter notes as well as singing songs in the solfeggio “Do” through “La”.
  • 6th Choir is growing more comfortable with sight reading solfeggio exercises, and we began working sixteenth-note rhythm exercises. We also learned about mixed-meters and how to switch between meters during a song.
  • 7th/8th Choir began exercises that alternated between major and minor keys, noting what to do when a note is raised one-half step by either a notation of a natural or a sharp. We saw this practically applied in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Russian Dance.

5th Grade (Mr. Chapman & Miss Johnston) 

schapman@bradfordacademy.org,  ajohnston@bradfordacademy.org

This Week
  • The students continue to work diligently on all that is given to them. In history class, we learned about Magellan and the first expedition around the world. We continued learning about the skeletal system in science class and doing some review for our test on Tuesday (09/08). We have continued through the Hobbit, encountering all sorts of creatures ranging from goblins and orcs to large eagles. We completed chapter 2 in math class and prepared for the test on Tuesday. In grammar class we continued to practice subject verb agreement. The students continue to develop good study habits and are putting those into practice for their tests!
Memory Work: 

Romans 12:6-8

Upcoming: 

Skeletal System Test (09/08)

Mrs. Knight

tknight@bradfordacademy.org

5th Art
  • In our two classes this week, we completed the covers of our sketchbooks, which are decorated with the elements of art. See if your child can name the seven elements: LINE, SHAPE, FORM, COLOR, VALUE, TEXTURE, AND SPACE. We began learning about the life of Leonardo da Vinci and did a picture study of the Mona Lisa. We are doing a great project where we are using a mixed up grid sketch of the Mona Lisa to recreate it. It forces our minds to truly observe the lines, an absolute essential to be able to create realistic art. Da Vinci’s personal motto was“sapere vedere”, to know how to see. This is a key theme in our art class: developing in our ability to observe.

6th Grade (Mrs. McDorman & Miss Morgan)

amcdorman@bradfordacademy.org,  lmorgan@bradfordacademy.org

6th Reading and Literature
  • We read and discussed Chapters 11–16 of The Sign of the Beaver, focusing on Matt and Attean’s growing friendship, their encounter with the bear, and Matt’s invitation to the Beaver village for a celebratory feast. We also considered how Matt’s respect for Attean and his understanding of Native American customs continue to deepen.
6th Grammar and Writing
  • We began our personal narrative essays by organizing ideas into an outline with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Students then began their rough drafts, focusing on setting, characters, sequence of events, and personal reflection.
6th Bible
  • We read several chapters in Matthew, continuing to outline the life and ministry of Christ. We also considered Matthew’s original Jewish audience and how that shapes his emphasis and presentation of Jesus as the promised Messiah.
6th History
  • We studied the invention of the cotton gin, considering how supply and demand caused slavery to expand as cotton became increasingly profitable. This helped lay the groundwork for our study of the Civil War and illustrated how the pursuit of money and power can lead to corruption.
6th Math
  • We completed Chapter 2 and its focus on multiplying decimals, while adding several new terms to our math vocabulary. We concluded the chapter with a test to assess students’ understanding.

Ms. Hutchison

mhutchison@bradfordacademy.org

6th Science
  • We had a great week of learning in 6th  grade science!  After analyzing and graphing our results from our “Water Drops” lab, performed last week, we learned more about HOW a scientist does his work.  We learned the difference between a scientific theory and a scientific law and the importance of designing an experiment to have only one independent variable. Ask your student to tell you the difference between a dependent, and independent and a controlled variable!

Miss Morgan

lmorgan@bradfordacademy.org

6th Logic
  • We completed Lessons 6 and 7 in The Fallacy Detective, studying the ad hominem fallacy. Students learned to recognize arguments that attack a person’s character rather than addressing the argument itself.

Mr. Klazinga

jklazinga@bradfordacademy.org

6th Latin
  • This week in 6th grade Latin, we completed the first chapter of our new book. The students now have experienced most of the types of exercises and classroom activities that we will be doing throughout the year. As a little bit of fun, we also started to come up with our Latin names that we will use in class when speaking in Latin. 

Mrs. Palmer 

cpalmer@bradfordacademy.org

6th Art
  •  Students began working on their charcoal shoe drawings this week. We will be working specifically with drawing from sight and also using our medium correctly. 

Mrs. Meredith

lmeredith@bradfordacademy.org

7th Omnibus
  • Literature: Students finished The Epic of Gilgamesh and began reading The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses, learning about ancient Mesopotamia, Hammurabi, and Babylonian laws and beliefs.
  • History: We studied Hammurabi’s Babylonian Empire, focusing on his conquests, laws, and leadership. We ended the week with a trivia game in preparation for next week’s unit test on ancient Mesopotamia.
  • Composition: Students continued working on comparison essays examining the flood accounts in Genesis and The Epic of Gilgamesh.

Ms. Hutchison

mhutchison@bradfordacademy.org

7th Science
  • We had a great week of learning in 6th  grade science!  After analyzing and graphing our results from our “Water Drops” lab, performed last week, we learned more about HOW a scientist does his work.  We learned the difference between a scientific theory and a scientific law and the importance of designing an experiment to have only one independent variable. Ask your student to tell you the difference between a dependent, and independent and a controlled variable!  We also began a unit on pedology, the study of soil, and set up a soil sample experiment to observe next week.

Mrs. Frueh

jfrueh@bradfordacademy.org

7th Pre-Algebra
  •  The students used their reading comprehension skills this week to identify word problems that follow a multiplication-division pattern by looking for key words and phrases. We also put our newly learned divisibility rules to the test to identify prime and composite numbers, identify common factors, and find the Greatest Common Factor of a set of numbers. Ask your student to show you how they can use prime factorization to identify the GCF.

Mrs. Palmer 

cpalmer@bradfordacademy.org

7th Art
  •  This week we began working with line quality in preparation for our original comic strip projects. Students practiced creating texture, visual interest, speech, movement/emotion and characters with their lines. 

Mr. Klazinga

jklazinga@bradfordacademy.org

7th Latin
  •   This is our second to last week of review. In particular, we focused on more complicated grammar points from last year and began the process of creating our Latin grammar notebook. 

Dr. Wright

nwright@bradfordacademy.org

8th Omnibus 
  • Students finished their first major test of the year on the early Church and the Council of Nicea, and were given the next book to read: On the Incarnation by Athanasius.  

Ms. Hutchison

mhutchison@bradfordacademy.org

8th Science
  • Your eighth grader learned about 3 different kinds of variables that can be found in any scientific investigation, and the importance of designing an experiment so that there is only one independent variable.  Ask your student what he/she remembers about variables.  They should be able to clearly explain the difference between an independent, a dependent and a controlled variable.  We then learned about the importance of using good scientific reasoning when developing hypotheses and designing scientific investigations.  After learning to calculate the time of death, as forensic scientists do, we used our deductive reasoning skills to solve a hypothetical murder mystery.

Mr. Klazinga

jklazinga@bradfordacademy.org

8th Latin
  • This is our second to last week of review. In particular, we focused on more complicated grammar points from last year and began the process of creating our Latin grammar notebook. 

Mrs. Frueh

jfrueh@bradfordacademy.org

8th Algebra I
  • This week we practiced combining like terms. The students were reminded of Mrs. Frueh’s favorite math rule: “To compare or combine they must be the same kind.” We also practiced using the Distributive Property to simplify algebraic expressions. We ended the week with our second unit test.

Mrs. Palmer 

cpalmer@bradfordacademy.org

8th Art
  •  Students began working on their famous works of art collage projects this week. If you or anyone you know is getting rid of magazines, we would be happy to take them to use for collaging! 

Mr. Crotts

bcrotts@bradfordacademy.org

8th Logic
  • We have learned the importance of defining the words or terms we use and several types of definitions that can help us be more precise in our language – we have also reviewed terms having a genus (broad use) and species (a more narrow or specific use).

RHETORIC SCHOOL

From the COLLEGE AND CAREER COUNSELING Office:

mcrotts@bradfordacademy.org

9th-12th:

Upcoming Events to Note:
  • Thursday, September 3, 5:00-6:00 PM, FBC Sanctuary, College Info Night, 9th-11th grades
  • Friday, September 25, 8:00-8:30 AM, FBC Sanctuary, PHC (Patrick Henry College) Student Recruiter Kaitlyn Marr, 9th-12th grades
  • Wednesday, October 7, 7:45-11:00 AM, BCA (Burlington Christian Academy) PSAT, interested 11th graders
  • Tuesday, September 29, 10:30 AM-12:15 PM, ACC College Fair, 10th-12th grades
  • Wednesday, October 14 (IST WEEK), 8:20-9:00 AM, FBC Sanctuary, TMU (The Master’s University) Dr. Horner; 9-9:30 AM, Dr. Jon Rennie, Thales College, 11th-12th grades
  • Friday, October 16 (IST WEEK), Mrs. Rebekah Scott (ACC Librarian), Online Academic Research Class, 10:15-11:15 AM, 9th-10th grades
Reminders:
  • ACT: Sign up at act.org; this is a requirement for juniors in order to receive the NC Opportunity Scholarship!
  • SAT: Sign up at satsuite.collegeboard.org
  • CLT: Bradford presents this test in February 2027 OR you may take this independently; visit cltexam.com
  • All offer free online practice tests OR visit Khan Academy OR sign up for test preparation with Classic Test Prep at classictestprep.com 
  • Visit colleges; research colleges; research job opportunities; research scholarships.  Plan 30 minutes a week during a study hall to work on all things post-Bradford (college and/or career)!

Coach Johnston

nathanieljohnston@bradfordacademy.org

9th History
  • Students enjoyed the extra opportunity on Monday to compete in an Aztec battle reenactment. They are now working through a history unit on the Reformation and the political/religious wars that followed it.

Ms. Oldham

coldham@bradfordacademy.org

9th Literature
  •  Students are finishing The Pilgrim’s Progress and will be taking a test on it on September 11th. 

Dr. Wright

nwright@bradfordacademy.org

9th Rhetoric
  •  Students critiqued an ad of their choice, showing how it uses pathos, ethos, and/or logos to persuade.  In class, we have begun more closely studying ethos, asking, “what makes a speaker easier to believe?”

Mr. Crotts

bcrotts@bradfordacademy.org

9th Bible Survey
  •  Our overview of the Bible each class is a bit like a drone flyover of the story of creation, fall, and redemption, with several dips down into the specific events that teach us about the love of God for sinful people.

Mrs. Frueh

jfrueh@bradfordacademy.org

9th Biology
  • After taking our first unit exam of the year this week, we then moved onto our next unit: Evolution. The students were introduced to the work of Charles Darwin and the concept of evolution. The purpose of this study is to neither endorse nor ridicule evolution, but instead to understand its foundational tenets and the underlying assumptions made by its proponents. We were able to discuss the arguments made by Philip Johnson in our summer reading text, Darwin on Trial, which led to some fruitful discussions about the difference between a hypothesis and a theory.
9th Geometry
  • We jumped into a new unit this week on Reasoning and Proofs. We had fun learning about the different roles of inductive and deductive reasoning in geometry. We then used our reasoning skills to write both algebraic and geometric proofs using the two-column method. Learning to write two-column proofs is a challenging process because it requires students to think clearly and argue logically. The students are doing a great job practicing this new skill.

Mrs. Fairchild 

afairchild@bradfordacademy.org

9th and 11th Art Foundations
  • This week we wrapped up our discussions on how to categorize art. We continued to wrestle with our definition of beauty and working to understand what it means. The students have all come to agree that that there is objective beauty and that there must be a standard for it. Our culture is crumbling because we are allowing people to determine what is beautiful based on their own feelings and  preferences. Ask your student about steak dinners, hamburgers, cotton candy, premium quality poison and poison apples.

Mrs. Johnston

sjohnston@bradfordacademy.org

High School Chorus/Bradford Chorale – Hymn of the Week I Need Thee Every Hour
  • We worked various rhythms in 4/4 and 3/4 meters, and also continued refreshing and polishing a capella pieces to perform for the fire station at the end of September.

Dr. James

kjames@bradfordacademy.org

10th Chemistry
  • This week the students practiced measuring liquid volumes and masses, and discussed sources of error in measurement and significant digits.
  • Next week we will discuss problem solving and density, and the students will take their second test of Q1.

Mrs. Palmer 

cpalmer@bradfordacademy.org

10th Spanish
  • Students spent this past week working on irregular verbs in the preterite tense. We have been focusing on learning these through repetition, repetition, repetition. We also continued to review vocabulary both new and old. 

Mr. Zhang

czhang@bradfordacademy.org

10th Algebra II
  • We took our first unit test and discussed how to do corrections. The new unit began our exploration of relations and functions. We reviewed notation and identification of key graphical features.

Mrs. Crotts

mcrotts@bradfordacademy.org

10th Literature
  • 10th graders did a great job discussing their favorite fable from Aesop’s Fable and sharing why it stood out to them.  They are very thoughtful as well as comical.  Students took a quiz to assess their knowledge of the Greek and Roman gods’ names and descriptions as well as symbols.  Next week students will write an in class essay comparing or contrasting this work with the Proverbs.  They are to read the book of Job as well!

Miss Oldham

coldham@bradfordacademy.org

10th Rhetoric II
  •  Students have been working on identifying ethos though writing a college entrance essay, writing a professional email, and giving a speech in class. 

Coach Johnston

nathanieljohnston@bradfordacademy.org

10th History
  • Students are learning about Israel’s kingdom era: David, Solomon and the kingdom being split in two.

Mr. Strength

hstrength@bradfordacademy.org

10th Historical Theology 
  • Students are learning of the context, contents, and significant figures revolving around the council of Nicaea (325AD). 

Mr. Zhang

czhang@bradfordacademy.org

11th Precalculus
  • We used both our metaphorical panoramic lenses and metaphorical microscopes to examine graphs of functions, evaluating limiting behavior at infinity as well as in infinitesimal neighborhoods of a finite number.
11th Physics
  • We met the kinematic equations in one dimension, practiced their use in specific contexts, and derived a general strategy for any kinematic equation problem. This included a discussion of the gravity-only assumption inherent in most theoretical free fall problems and the extent to which air resistance violates that assumption in real life.

Miss Oldham

coldham@bradfordacademy.org

11th Literature
  •  Students have begun the treacherous descent into the Inferno. 

Mr. Webster

wwebster@bradfordacademy.org

11th History
  •  This week we went over the development of the church in the early Middle Ages. Specifically, we covered the rise of the monastic movement and how that set a new trajectory for Western Christianity. The students also read an article about the Benedict Option and we discussed whether communal Christianity is a viable option in our modern context. 

Dr. Wright

nwright@bradfordacademy.org

11th Apologetics
  • Following James Sire’s book, this week our class is learning about naturalism and its ideological children, secular humanism and Marxism.  

Coach Johnston

nathanieljohnston@bradfordacademy.org

11th- 12th Advanced PE
  • Students enjoyed another swimming workout and then beat the heat by staying inside to complete a “card deck” workout.

Mrs. Palmer 

cpalmer@bradfordacademy.org

Spanish 3
  • Students spent this past week reviewing “p verbs” in both present and preterite tenses. We are making sure we have these conjugations down in these two tenses before we move on to new tenses. Additionally, we spent a lot of time on vocabulary both new and old. 

Coach Johnston

nathanieljohnston@bradfordacademy.org

12th History
  • Students are researching into the lives of several, major political and religious leaders during the Reformation and religious wars that followed. We are especially considering the three major treaties that over time develop the principle of religious freedom.

Miss Oldham

coldham@bradfordacademy.org

12th Literature
  • Students have wrapped up Paradise Lost and are preparing for a test when we return from the long weekend.   
12th Rhetoric III
  •  Please continue to pray for our seniors as they research and discuss their topics. I have heard a lot of good conversations between seniors and their mentors, which I love! We will begin the writing of the thesis during IST week after Fall Break. 

Mr. Weber

sweber@bradfordacademy.org

12th Systematic Theology
  • Students have learned the first of four characteristics of Scripture:  the authority of Scripture is grounded in the God who “breathed out” the scriptures.  We discussed how the Bible is the Christian’s ultimate authority concerning all things about which it speaks.

Mrs. Byrd

lbyrd@bradfordacademy.org

12th Calculus
  • We’re drawing to the end of our study of limits.  Topics for this week included:  confirming continuity, removing discontinuities, infinite limits, and limits at infinity
12th Physics
  • We concluded our intro to kinematics and began a study of one dimensional motion.  We are considering how objects behave when acceleration is constant.  A focus is on free fall motion where objects fall solely under the influence of gravity.  Since this isn’t possible in the real world, we are learning to take into account how frictional forces impede motion.