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The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

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The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

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Bruin Block schedule to change for next year

Bruin Block schedule to change for next year

Afsah Khan February 18, 2014

[heading size="15"]Next year, longer classes, shorter lunch periods will be in schedule[/heading] The Bruin Block committee in charge of making decision regarding the 30-minute daily block has decided...

Underclassmen visit booths in the Auxiliary Gym during their Bruin Block on Student Involvement Day earlier in the school year. Photo by Renata Poet-Williams

It is time to do more than survive Bruin Block

Alice Yu February 12, 2014

After the dust settled from the flurry of changes to the CPS in the summer of 2013 and we are well into the second semester of this year, the high schools included freshmen, school started at nine, and...

Freedom deemed hazardous under new policy

Freedom deemed hazardous under new policy

Ross Parks November 5, 2013

In last year’s visit from Wayne Walker, the first principal and founder of many of the school’s core ideals, remarked on how he remembered the school, and how he felt proud the school has stayed true...

The trumpets perform as part of the Emerald Regiment during the Homecoming assembly

Assemblies will continue using class time

Anna Wright November 1, 2013

Built into the daily routine, Bruin Block is as a period during which, on certain occasions, juniors and seniors would attend their class meetings in order to avoid losing valuable class time. However,...

Bruin Block Fashion Show highlights ’90s style

Emily Franke October 24, 2013

Scrunchies, jumpsuits and over-sized T-shirts returned to the catwalk in the Bruin Block fashion show today. Freshmen and sophomore representatives from each Bruin Block class formed teams, with each participant...

The theme for this years homecoming is Land of the Free, Home of the Bruins. Posters in the Main Commons display each days theme.

Opportunity for community, tradition lost

Brayden Parker October 24, 2013

Tomorrow night as the University of Missouri Tigers football team prepares to take on No. 21 South Carolina in the 102nd Homecoming Game, students, alumni, and members of the community alike will stroll...

Infographic by Renata Williams

Homecoming week to run ‘like day’ schedule

Molly Mehle October 16, 2013

Just when students thought this school year couldn’t face more change, a new schedule enters the picture. School assemblies previously meant lost class time; this year, however, the RBHS administration...

Underclassmen visit booths in the Auxiliary Gym during their Bruin Block on Student Involvement Day earlier in the school year. Photo by Renata Poet-Williams

Students react to Bruin Block, opposition arises

Brittany Cornelison September 29, 2013

The beginning of every school year brings about excitement, but the transition into the 2013-14 school year was one that was bursting with even more new opportunities and experiences for RBHS students....

Photo by: Ross Parks

New Bruin Block encourages the building of relationships

Ross Parks May 21, 2013

As RBHS undergoes more changes than ever before in the approaching 2013- 2014 school year, one element of these changes may make things a little easier for the incoming grades to RBHS. “Bruin Block...

Art by Jake Alden

Bruin Block provides students with a consistent family style community

Jake Alden March 21, 2013

Their very first year at RBHS, sophomores are given an obligatory class known as Advisory. This hour and a half serves the combined role of a high school orientation, study hall, emotional safety net...

Art by Jake Alden

Bruin Block detracts from learning environment

Manal Salim March 21, 2013

Thirty-one minutes, every single day, will be devoted to supporting students in their time at RBHS, according to the suggestion for Bruin Block class periods. The idea sounds appealing enough, but the...

Bruin Block passes, senior mentor roles to change

Bruin Block passes, senior mentor roles to change

Atreyo Ghosh March 14, 2013
With more than an 80 percent margin, the faculty approved the Bruin Block proposal on Monday, March 11.
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