Wood Hill Chorus Spring Concert

by Alana MacKay-Kao

The Wood Hill Chorus is a fun place to sing with your peers, and perform all different kinds of songs. Speaking of songs, they will be singing four at their Spring Concert. Can You Hear by Jim Papoulis, In This Ancient House by Ruth Morris Gray, Riversong by Roger Emerson, and the Kids’ Choice song, which is yet to be decided. The theme for this year’s Spring Concert is “music of the world”, and the songs they will be performing are either from or based all over the world. Can You Hear is based in Africa, In This Ancient House in Japan, Riversong in Ireland, and once again the Kids’ Choice song is yet to be decided. They will be performing for the Wood Hill students at 1pm on Tuesday, June 7th, and again at 7pm. Come watch them perform!

DI Team Raises Money with Raffles

By Alex Hazelwood and Iliana Brouillette

The Wood Hill DI Team is holding raffles to help raise money for Globals in Tennessee. Tickets are $1 each and they are selling tickets during lunch. If you win you could win being principal for a day or have a pizza party with Ms. O'Dea. 

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What is WEB?

By Iliana Brouillette and Alex Hazelwood

What is WEB? WEB is an acronym for Where Everybody Belongs. Mrs. Conti and Ms. Consiglio are running this middle school orientation and transition program. This is the first year that Wood Hill is participating. West Middle has been using this program for many years and it has been a success.

WEB helps introduce 6th graders to Wood Hill. Built on the belief that students can help students succeed, the program trains mentors to be WEB Leaders. Students in 7th grade this year can apply to be leaders next year. To pick up your application, please see Ms. Consiglio or Mrs. Conti. Applications are due by Friday, May 13 by 11 a.m. Before you apply make sure you can attend the meetings on Thursday, Aug. 25 and Friday, Aug. 26. Also, August 31st (the first day of school) and September 9th (the 6th grade dance).

All bands night!

 All Bands Night

By Arianna Hinds and edited by Abby Chou

On a Tuesday night in March, all the band members from Andover came together to play at the Collins Center for All Bands Night. It was a blast! Many skilled musicians came this event, and people could come to see many different types of bands. All the middle school bands played, as well as the different levels of jazz band. The high school band also participated, and the marching band with the color guard.

Wood Hill was well represented at this night. Our school’s 7th and 8th grade band played two songs, Invicta and Jurassic Park. They were conducted by Mr. Wright. The high school band also did a very creative piece, where the percussion section got to choose their own S.T.O.M.P instruments such as bowls, cups, etc. Percussion also got to set a beat to the wind and brass instruments. Every band was wonderful! There was such a variety of music and instruments. Everybody had lots of fun!

Cafeteria Redesign

By Iliana Brouillette

This Spring ideas for redesigning our cafeteria started to come up like spring flowers. When Mr. Bucco was asked, why now?, he told us that when he looks around he doesn't see a place where everyone felt included. For some kids lunch time is one of the best parts of their day, but for others it's the most dreaded part. This project will most likely be spanned out over the next couple of years. The funds are being provided by the PAC. When the survey results came back, there was a lot of the same answers: not enough seating, new foods, etc. Right now they have $3,000 dollars, but there is no definite plans on how it will be spent. The goal is for it to be all inclusive and a place you want to dine. When the idea for redesigning the cafeteria first came up all the teachers were interested in being a part of it. The idea of the whole school deciding on one thing sounded hard to do, so they decided to choose one grade to do it -- the eighth grade. They toured other schools in the area to look at how they have their cafeterias set up and borrow a few of their ideas.

7 East Plant Sale

By Iliana Brouillette

7-East’s annual plant sale is back! Our organic tomato, basil, and cucumber plants have been grown locally at our Wood Hill green house. Each 3-inch potted plant is $3. Orders will be taken until May 13. Profits will be donated to help Ecuador.The students running it are: Inhye Kang, Iliana Brouillette, Puloma Bishnu, Ashley Monaghan, Polina Malinovskaya and Alex Hazelwood. There is a limited number of plants so buy yours ASAP. They will be selling them after school at the greenhouse till 2:30 from May 4th until May 12th. If you have any questions email Ms. Kouletsis at dkouletsis@k12.andoverma.us