WA's Varsity team goes up against Cambridge on Dec. 18th

“I’m gonna kill myself.” “I want to die.” “Oh, are you triggered now?” These words have become so common in the language of students that hearing them in the hallways is as ordinary as hearing someone asking about that night’s math homework.          Even if not spoken aloud,...

With advanced high school sports, there usually comes an expectation that athletes will, undoubtedly, seek a professional career in his or her sport later on in life. Indeed, whether it is football, soccer, hockey, or ping pong, one can almost always depend on athletes dreaming big about the life of...

The Westford Academy Girls' Varsity Hockey team tied their home opener at Groton School against Boston Latin by a score of 3-3. The girls started off strong, but after falling behind in the middle of the match up, they found themselves unable to crawl out quick enough in order to secure the win. The...

The Westford Academy band and chorus programs hosted a winter concert in the PAC on Wednesday December 7th at 7pm. Performances included the honors and general programs of both ensembles, as well as the symphonic band, and the Tri-M Music Honor Society induction ceremony.  

During this school year, exchange students from various parts of the world have traveled to Westford to attend Westford Academy, so they can learn and experience American culture.  Meet Chloe Ma, a fairly typical sixteen year old girl.  The one thing that makes her atypical is that she is from China....

From Thursday, November 10th, through Saturday, November 13th, six WA Ghostwriter staff members traveled to Indianapolis for the National High School Journalism Conference (NHSJC), accompanied by advisers Janet Fonden and Jack Holbrook. Along with over 3,500 journalism students, the staff attended three...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, is a new movie based on the newest novel by J. K. Rowling, about the wizarding world in New York. This movie brings back the magic, happiness, and suspense felt in the original Harry Potter films. One will feel the most suspense when the four main characters...

With each quarter, the Beyond Words members are busy uploading new stories and completely redoing their website. As quarter one of the school year is rapidly coming to an end, students from the club put up a new sign and prepare for update #2 on their online magazine. Beyond Words is an online literary...

"What did you think of the debate last night?" In history classrooms across the country, teachers prompt students to share their feelings about the presidential election and current events. Discussions often become debates, and through it all, the teacher is expected to simply provide factual...

This Saturday, November 5th, the second annual Rajiv Paluri International Night will be held at Westford Academy from 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM. The event encompasses some of Rajiv's favorite things: football, food, and fall. Last year,  Paluri's father and Principal James Antonelli worked together to...

For two weeks last March, WA students and faculty experimented with a brand new type of school schedule. Rather than a typical class after class day, school days consisted of a ten minute break after the second class, as well as an extra minute of hallway passing time. According to WA Principal Jim...