Students and staff members from three Hilliard City Schools are hosting 24 students and four teachers from Hong Kong.  Twelve elementary students and two teachers arrived on January 19 and will be staying with families in the Alton Darby (ADE) and Hoffman Trails (HTE) elementary schools until January 30.  Twelve high school students and two teachers arrived on January 21 and are staying with host families from Hilliard Bradley High School (HBR) until February 1. 

Planned community activities such as miniature golf and bowling allow the host families and visiting students time to interact with each other while other school activities such as assemblies and basketball games provide a snap-shot of life in an American school for the Hong Kong visitors.  The visiting students will shadow their Hilliard Schools hosts during the school day including navigating the lunch room and attending classes.  “This is a great opportunity for us to not only showcase the excellence that is Hilliard City Schools to other parts of the world, but to also enjoy this cultural exchange and learn about the educational practices of both students and teachers in Hong Kong,” said Assistant Superintendent Leslie McNaughton.

Please congratulate our Bradley Competition Dance Team for their outstanding performance on Sunday, January 22.  They earned a Division One rating and a Sweepstakes trophy for their Jazz, Hip-Hop AND Lyrical dance routines.  Junior Devon Hoyer also earned a Division One rating for her solo performance and received a Superior medal.  Team members receiving honors also include: sophomores Destiny Wilson and Mish Al-tahtamoni and freshman Raneem Saleh.

                                                  Congratulations to the following art students who recently had artwork accepted into The Scholastic Art Awards Show which will be held at The Columbus College of Art and Design:

Shrie Dave – Honorable Mention, Parker Dudzik – Art Portfolio-Silver Key, Marianne Ickes – Honorable Mention and Silver Key, Amber Pharazyn – Silver Key, Aaron Price – Honorable Mention and Silver Key, Victoria Sin – Honorable Mention, and Alex Stroup – Gold Key and Silver Key.

The PTO is sponsoring a “fun run” to give the Bradley family an avenue to rally around our students that need our support this holiday season.

Many of these students are either fighting serious medical battles of their own,

supporting other family members in the fight or have suffered some other tragedy that has left them in need.

There are several ways that you can support this cause. If you are fortunate enough to have a little extra this holiday season, you can participate in the Bradley Fun Run of 2011.

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Congratulations to Bradley’s Feats of Clay Competition team for placing first and retaining the winning title at the Feats of Clay competition held last Friday at Westland High School.  

Our students competed in 6 categories including a no hands, mug-a-thon, cylinder stack, coil stack, teapot and t-shirt competition.  

Congratulations to the following team members on a job well done:  Morgan McDonald, Ian Davis, Kelli Hudson, Katie Kisseberth, Vanessa Lopez, Mike Kennedy, Shrie Dave and Abbey Tabacchi.

The Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) team up with Kristin Lucas and 22 ELL students to attend the Alleviating Poverty through Entrepreneurship Summit.

Based on Charles Dickens’ classic holiday story, A Christmas Carol, tells the story of Scrooge, a miserly old woman who doesn’t ‘make merry herself at Christmas. 

Visited by four ghosts and touched by the story of little Tiny Tim, Scrooge learns to keep Christmas in her heart all year long.

Hilliard Bradley will present A Christmas Carol, December 2 @ 7 pm and December 3 @ 2 pm.  Tickets are 5 dollars and can be purchased at the door or online with a credit card at BradleyTheater.org. 

This family friendly play lasts one hour and will feature the Hilliard Bradley Chamber Orchestra.  Stay after the matinee on Saturday and for a nominal fee and create your own puppet and have snacks with the cast! 

The show is appropriate for all ages.

The Bradley theater department presents three student-directed one act plays this Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:00 p.m.

As Bradley continues to grow, we are constantly looking for ways to challenge our students and exploit their unique theater interests. In the past three years we have added a Community Service Play (in which proceeds are donated to a charity chosen by the students), a Classroom Project (which focuses on more challenging and mature subject matter), and now the Student-Directed One Acts.

For the One Acts, we assembled three students who have been active in the theater program. They have completed the Acting classes as well as the Directing course, and now they have been given the responsibility of choosing a script, auditioning actors, and creating a rehearsal schedule. Everything about this production is student driven: lights, sets, actors, direction.

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