The Brentwood Blog is written by current Brentwood students in Grades 11 and 12. Throughout the year, the blog allows readers to get a feel for life on our campus through the eyes of our students. We look forward to your feedback (blog@brentwood.bc.ca)
Pleasantly surprised to have a Monday with only three classes because of AP exams, I wandered over to the sunlit balcony of Crooks Hall overlooking the ocean to study for the multitude of quizzes or tests which inevitably pile up in anticipation of a Mid-Term Break. Under a sweeping blue sky, however, my plans to study were delightfully thwarted by the wind, gleefully flapping the pages of my Art History textbook back and forth – and by the melting fingers of the sun, prying my concentration away from analyzing the architectural components of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to gaze at a flock of seagulls squawking eagerly as they meandered over the rocky beach exposed by the low tide, on the...
Yes, my fellow Brentonians, it is again that time when students in Advance Placement classes are tested on just how advanced they really are. Many Grade 12s have been reviewing for these exams all...[more]
Graduation is a rite of passage. As the school year comes to a close, exams are written, universities chosen and final decisions are being made, and many students of the class of 2012 have one thing...[more]
I’ve never learned to juggle properly.
There’s something inherently stressful about having to balance a variety of potentially harmful objects above you head. For the uncoordinated, juggling is a...[more]
As the school recently prepared for the grand opening of the new Centre for Art and Humanities, the Board of Governors, alumni, parents, and Emeritus Faculty have flocked onto campus to participate...[more]
The following is the text of an address delivered by Mr. John Allpress, Deputy Head of School of Brentwood College, at the Christening of a new racing shell, The Andrea and Gerry Pennells, at the...[more]
It is not every day that one gets to meet an ambassador, let alone an ambassador to a country that is a central nation of study in one of Brentwood’s Advanced Placement courses, Comparative...[more]
