On October 17, the high school will take part in an active shooter training session. Students will first watch a video made last year that depicts the procedure when encountering an active shooter. Freshmen and transfer students will watch this video in the auditorium with additional support from the Wellesley Police Department, their advisors, and the administration, while the other grades will watch the video in their advisories.
This year, sophomore English teachers will have the opportunity to shape the well-established American Author project that is known, and feared, by most students, as long as they maintain the project’s rigor and goals.
Next fall, the high school will officially launch the Bring Your Own Laptop (BYOL) program. In this 1:1 learning initiative, students will bring their own laptop to school every day.
Every year, students spend countless hours preparing for exams that occur in the span of three or four days. So how does the administration schedule these imperative days?
Students frequently crowd into the library, sitting five, six, seven or more at a table intended for four, eliciting reprimands from the librarians. Students often pile in there, not to do work, but merely because it’s one of the few spaces to be during a free in the high school. There now seems to be a solution: a new café.
Flames lit up the stage at the evening show of Sweeney Todd on November 11. The last of four performances, the show could have ended early because of the fire, but did not.