For a large portion of the student body, something as simple as the drive to and from school can be the most stressful and longest part of daily life. If you leave at the wrong time or there’s an accident, it can transform your ride from a slight inconvenience to a living nightmare. Whether you drive yet or not, it's hard not to pity the drivers go to extremes when it comes to reaching the river...

Senior Rebecca Duffy has been horseback riding for nearly 14 years. “I started riding when I was four and I started taking lessons when I was seven.”   She rides at Coriander Farms on Old St. Augustine Road, right off of I-295. “My barn is where I have made my most amazing friends. Since we spend so much time together at the barn and traveling to horse shows, we have become extremely close and we are a super tight-knit group.”     Her goal is to jump 3’9” this year with...

“If you’re not doing your best, which is working to improve your best, then you’re really missing out on a gift you can give yourself,”said Chase Haskell.   This past summer, Chase Haskell made a prominent name for himself not only in the Bolles community, but also in the global one.  An astonishing athlete in crew, Haskell was invited to be a part of the United States Rowing Junior...

Physical speed, strength and skill aren’t the only measures of how well athletes can thrive in their respective sports. A witty combination of words allows an athlete to sneak into an opponent’s head, throwing them off and making victory more important. There’s the physical game and then there’s the mental game, known as trash talk. Trash talking describes friendly banter and boasting...

President Trump recently released a new edition of his travel ban impacting North Korea, Syria, Chad, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Iran, and Venezuela. He continues to implement his immigration policy, via a travel ban, believing that this will successfully perform the duty of, “Detecting attempted entry into the United States by terrorists or other public-safety threats,” according to www.whitehouse.gov. "It seems very distant," According to Mrs. Marks, our head of upper school who has been working...

Art classes at TBS are not just seen as a “bird class,” an easy class students fly through. They are treated just as seriously as an academic class because graduating students should have experience all essential subjects. Even so, many students express surprise to find out there are assessments like quizzes and tests in their art classes.    Some classes even had to take exams, “I took...

“It wasn’t about the survey, it was about the process. The kids learning the different techniques about the sampling. It was about the reflection, realizing what worked and what did not work, learning from it”       --Griffin The Data Analysis classes, taught by Ms. Griffin and Mr. Lyons, create the school-wide surveys you occasionally take on Schoology. These surveys cover a broad range...