The Bear Facts

The Red Hot Chilli Pepper Documentary Project

Jahnavi Dave and Louisa Blystone • April 18, 2016

The seventh grade Red Hot Chilli Pepper team was recently given a history assignment by history teacher Jane Gordon to a make documentary on their personal hero. This is Gordon’s first time doing...

There Are No LBMS Sports Teams

Bushra Khandaker and Camryn Spratt, Reporters, The Bruin Times • April 3, 2016

“Lake Braddock does not sponsor any middle school sports.” --Sandra Hunter, administrative assistant for student activities

Bomb Threat: Police suspect call came from inside

Didi Elsyad, EIC of The Bruin Times • April 3, 2016

On March 15, shortly after 10 a.m., LB’s main office received a phone call that would lead shortly to a school-wide evacuation. The call, which threatened LB with a bomb, was not the only one made...

MS Science Olympians place second at District Competition

Aileen Choi and Sarah Wang, Reporters for The Bruin Times • April 3, 2016

On March 12, LB’s middle school Science Olympiad team placed second overall at the Regional Tournament. Science Olympiad events include, but are not limited to: earth science, chemistry, anatomy,...

Antony and Cleopatra Killed it at DC Shakespeare Festival

Bivash Oli and Hunter Reeves, Reporters for The Bruin Times • April 3, 2016

Eboni Pearson’s third period Advanced Theatre Arts class performed an abridged version of William Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra, March 4 at the Folger’s Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. Six...

School-wide Survey Says “No” to New Language Classes Next Year

Namira Anjum and Vivian Stewart, Reporters for The Bruin Times • April 3, 2016

From Oct. 30 to Nov. 6, Lake Braddock middle school students and staff were able to take a language survey, conducted by former assistant principal, Robert Sanders. The survey asked them what languages...

Student Teacher to Finish Year as Substitute Administrator

Aryan Singh and Tyler Wyatt, Reporters for The Bruin Times • April 3, 2016

“I just love Lake Braddock, and I wanted to stay here,” Brandyn Peyton said.

Coming to theater: ‘Game of Tiaras’

Savannah Raeder and Elizabeth Lavalle, Reporters for The Bruin Times • April 3, 2016

This year’s production of the Booster Organization’s “Storybook Theater” is a tragic/comic fantasy-parody called Game of Tiaras.

Yearbook prices drop this year, pay for newspapers

Griffin Reitz and Samuel O’Neill, Reporters for The Bruin Times • April 3, 2016

This year's middle school yearbooks are cheaper, bigger and pay for the printing of The Bruin Times.