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Book Cover for "Look Both Ways", featuring characters depicted from the stories.

Look Both Ways becomes an inspirational national book awards finalist

Ivy Howard, Staff Writer Jan 17, 2020

Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds introduces a powerful meaning and inspirational story featuring unique characters and their different perspectives as they face different situations. This National Book Awards Finalist deserves this title for its interesting concept and different directions based off...

A stressed student is surrounded by textbooks.

Midterms aren’t in students’ best interest

Elena Gibbons, Staff Writer Jan 17, 2020

As a freshman, I've had many teachers and older students giving me advice and tips about midterms. But by far, the most common advice I hear is 'you'll do fine' and 'it's not actually that big of a deal'. In the words of my Spanish teacher Julie Bostrom, "ignore the hype." I've heard of upperclassmen...

WA girls' hockey team huddles together before their game starts.

WA Girls’ Varsity Hockey trumped by Andover

Amelia Neal, Staff Writer Jan 13, 2020

On Thursday, January 9, WA's Girls' Varsity Hockey played a home game against Andover. WA played well throughout the duration of the game, but Andover took home the win for the night. Within the 1st period, WA player number 15, Val Crory scored a goal. The puck slid into the goal and the crowd cheered...

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WA addresses changing GPA system

Sophia Keang, Staff Writer Jan 7, 2020

In an attempt to lessen student stress, the administration has been discussing changing the weighted GPA system to unweighted GPAs at Westford Academy.  A weighted grade point average system takes the difficulty of a class into account along with grades. An unweighted GPA system is when the difficulty...

Two Latin Club volunteers sell cake pops.

Budget constraints should not ruin Latin program

Mahi Kandage, Editor-in-Chief Dec 19, 2019

At the recent town meeting, school committee member Mingquan Zheng articulated that when he needed to learn hundreds of English words for a test, a nearly impossible task, his study of Latin helped him decipher their meanings through the numerous roots, prefixes, and suffixes.  However, the latest...

Students in the cafe completing classwork.

Bring back the substitutes

Amelia Neal, Staff Writer Dec 4, 2019

At the start of the 2019-2020 school year, the substitute program at WA suffered a great decrease in size. Due to the school’s recent budget cuts, only a handful of substitute teachers remain. Instead of going to their class with a sub, students go down to the cafe and complete the assignments...

AB defeats WA Football on Thanksgiving 21-0

Molly Smith, Staff Writer Dec 2, 2019

The Westford Academy Grey Ghost football team took on the Acton-Boxboro Colonials in the annual Thanksgiving game. The game took place on Thanksgiving, November 28. On WA’s Trustees field Acton-Boxboro defeated Westford Academy 21-0.  

Olivia Swaida's entry for the Art Calendar of 2020.

Westford Academy presents the winning artwork of the 2020 calendar

Ivy Howard, Staff Writer Nov 12, 2019

Students have worked for their entries for the 2020 Art Calendar at Westford Academy. Fourteen students, out of eighty participating in the competition, had their entries chosen to be displayed for the art calendar contest. Members of the faculty visited the flag lobby, where the artwork was exhibited,...

Julia Bourque poses happily during her game.

WA makes way for first female football player

Anushka Patil, News Editor Nov 1, 2019

One year. Twelve months. 365 days. 8760 hours. That is how long Julia Bourque spent preparing for her breakthrough role on the Westford Academy junior varsity football team. Every year, students gather up their skills to earn potential positions on their designated boys' and girls' sports teams. For...

German teacher Ashley Smith poses in front of a map of Germany.

Smith says guten tag to WA

Mahi Kandage, Editor-in-Chief Oct 31, 2019

The 2019-20 school year brings a new addition to Westford Academy’s foreign language department. In her first year teaching full-time, Ashley Smith will teach sections of Honors German II, III, and a IV/V mix class. In her first week at Westford Academy, Smith has found support in her colleagues...