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French Baker Comes to Wood Hill

By Lisa and Madeline

On Monday, April 24th, Victor, the owner of La Maison Navarre, a bakery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, came to Wood Hill.  With him came large white boxes copiously filled with flaky pastries varying from croissants and brioche. The pleasant bread smell was so overpowering that some students started to drool.  Bellies grumbled and crazed eyes started to appear on everyone. Victor, however, was used to smelling and seeing these delectables. His bakery, La Maison Navarre is a proud French bakery that serves authentic French food.  They sell all sorts of pastries like pain au chocolat, but their specialty are macarons.  Many seem to enjoy this tiny French treat in particular.  Perhaps it is the flavored ganache that is sandwiched between two crispy biscuits that appeals to many people.  Whatever it is, La Maison Navarre are professional macaron makers. However, they do not serve just pastries. They also make savory foods like quiches, and are opening a wine bar.  This wine bar, according to Victor, will be paired with charcuterie, which is basically assorted meats. Victor is not worried about the wine bar since his restaurant have much dexterity in their cooking.  In fact, they have a 4.9 star rating in reviews.

La Maison Navarre is some of Victor’s proudest achievements.  In the presentation, he explained that he was trying to major in industrial business while he was at college in Paris.  However, he found it very pleasing to make food. To him, the food environment was very comfortable to work with. That’s why he decided to instead put all his time and money into baking and making food.  Along his journey into the food world, he worked with Charlotte. Charlotte lived most of her life in Lyon, France, which is a place known for its food. In Lyon, you can have many gastronomic experiences. Before she met with Victor, she worked at some of the most famous chocolate businesses.  Together, they were a dynamic duo. Confident in their skills and wanting to bring some very good French food to the United States, they moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and started a bakery there. Why in Portsmouth? Well, Victor explained that a lot of his family lived there, so he felt that it would be nice to have their bakery there. During the presentation, Victor used this story to show that not everyone exactly gets what they expect in life.  You have to just go on with what you get. Destiny was a big topic in his presentation. After Victor finished his very inspiring speech, he answered some of the questions we had. He gave really great answers to all of them.

When we tried the food, we were amazed to see how good it was. You had four options of pastries to try. The brioche with sugar on top, brioche with chocolate on top, bread with chocolate inside, and a light croissant. Those with gluten-free allergies received macarons. These macaron flavors ranged from salted caramel to chocolate raspberry.  The croissant had an incredible bread flavor, and it's chewiness was satisfying for the mouth. The bread with chocolate, or the pain au chocolat, was the perfect balance of sugary and bread flavor.  Both pastries were incredibly flakey, so it would make a nice crunch if you bit into the bread.  The brioches too tasted like a croissant, but denser. The sugar topped brioche had a nice tingling sugar sensation, while the chocolate topped brioche made jaded chocolate lovers giggle with joy.  All in all, I could see how all these pastries were delicacies in France.

This was a very great and well organized presentation from Victor. He talked very well and gave an outstanding story about how he came to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It was a great discussion about how life can lead to very different outcomes from that you expect. Also, those pastries were amazing. No other bakery in America will ever make something come close to it. We hope that Victor and Charlotte may come to Wood Hill next year!

Run for the Troops

By Vivian Tang



Did you ever think about honoring those who died in war but never did anything about it? Well, that is what Run for the Troops is! Run for the Troops is a fundraiser that was set up to raise money to build houses for severely injured soldiers. Hence the name 'Run for the Troops, both runners and walkers qualify for this event and we encourage you to participate and to help those who have helped you

Run for the Troops is hosted every year in the month of April and as of the year 2018, this has been it's the 8th year they have hosted Run for the Troops. Run for the Troops is a 5K or 5-kilometer run, which is about 3 miles long, and raises about 1 million dollars a year. The event hostess awareness to the needs of injured soldiers, something everyone may forget unless we remind them that there is a human sacrifice behind our freedom. Participants can sign up by getting a form from Ms. Consiglio and paying $27. You can choose to either run as an individual or as a team or for five more. If you didn’t get a chance to go this year, we hope to see you next year!

Poll of the Week

By Christina Illie and Abinaya Ganesh




Pizza vs Hamburgers

14 pizza to 6 hamburgers 

Obviously pizza wins




Early Bird vs Night Owl

4 early birds to 16 night owls 

Go to bed earlier!




Books vs Movies

1 bookie to 17 movies

Why guys? Why?




What type of chocolate do you like best?

5 white chocolate,13 milk chocolate,1 dark chocolate
It's such a close race!🙄

Math Team

By: Pritha Yalakkishettar

Last week Wood Hill’s math team, along with four other schools, competed in a math competition. There are five of these types of competitions every year; this one happened last week on Thursday, April 5. This was the fifth meet of the year and Wood Hill’s team got the highest score. The five schools competing were Wood Hill, Doherty, Richardson, West, and Wynn Middle school. Ten people from the Wood Hill team competed.

Richardson came in last with 86 points, Wynn came in fourth with 96 points, Doherty was third with 144 points, West Middle came in second with 148 points, and Wood Hill finished in first place with 176 points! “The people on this team work very hard, meeting every Thursday after school,” Mrs. DeBiase, the 8 East math teacher and math team coach said. This was a very exciting event for Wood Hill’s math team.

Thank You!!!

By: Emily Flanagan

How many times this year have you thanked your teachers, once, twice, ten times, never? Well on Thursday, May 3, you will get your chance. On May 3 it is Teacher Appreciation Day, PAC hosts a luncheon for all the teachers to thank them for all their hard work. This year the theme is Fiesta! So maybe the lunch served will be Fiesta! themed. Sometimes, as an added bonus, PAC holds a raffle. Here are some things students appreciate about their teachers.


“I love all the fun projects we do in ELA and Social Studies.”

~Anonymous

“I appreciate it when teachers fulfill their goals in life.”

~Lisa

“I really like it when teachers are very kind and considerate to their students.”

~Madeline

“I really like the books we read, and how my teacher teaches them.”

~Abinaya

“I love getting to do group projects in Science class.”

~Christina

6 East is seeing "A Wrinkle in Time"

By: Christina Ilie and Abinaya Ganesh

Mrs.Cavanaugh, the 6 East ELA teacher, gave all 6 East students a challenge. Read A Wrinkle in Time by March 21st, and we can see the movie. But if we got less than 70% on a quiz about it, we can’t go. The race began to read this Newbery winning book by Madeleine L’Engle. This book, like the race to read it, is full of twist and turns at every corner.

A Wrinkle in Time is about a girl named Meg whose mother and father are scientists. Her father goes on a scientific mission, but unfortunately, he doesn’t come back from his journey. One day, in the middle of a storm, an old lady comes to the Murry household and talks to Mrs. Murry about tessering. Meg’s brother, Charles Wallace, and Meg’s classmate Calvin O’Keefe must embark on the journey of a lifetime to defeat the darkness and save their father. If they fail, they will not only lose their family, but their planet will be forever in danger. Read the book to find out how it ends!