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Thursday, October 15, 2015
First school dance welcomes students back to Wood Hill
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| Eighth graders Katie Benjamin and Solace Lockheardt having fun at the dance. |
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| Solace Lockheardt and Mrs. Sullivan |
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| A group pose by sixth grade boys at Wood Hill. |
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| Katie Benjamin enjoys a night off from homework. |
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| Olivia Dionisio, Danna Mejenes, Ella Brockleman, Lizzie Hart enjoy the dance. |
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Wood Hill students excel at Academic Bowl
by Lekhya Sathi
Thursday March 12 was the last Academic Bowl meet for the 2014-2015 school year. This year the Wood Hill team has won four of the five meets. The team from Wood Hill, made up of nineteen selected students from sixth, seventh and eighth grade competed with middle schools from Andover and other neighboring cities, such as Methuen, Lawrence, and North Andover.
Each Academic Bowl competition is divided into two parts. The first challenge is to as a team, simultaneously complete a fill-in-the-blank worksheet, followed by a building challenge, and a scrabble challenge in a given amount of time. After this is the buzzer round, which is played jeopardy style, with the teams being asked questions and having to press the buzzer to answer.
Thursday March 12 was the last Academic Bowl meet for the 2014-2015 school year. This year the Wood Hill team has won four of the five meets. The team from Wood Hill, made up of nineteen selected students from sixth, seventh and eighth grade competed with middle schools from Andover and other neighboring cities, such as Methuen, Lawrence, and North Andover.
Each Academic Bowl competition is divided into two parts. The first challenge is to as a team, simultaneously complete a fill-in-the-blank worksheet, followed by a building challenge, and a scrabble challenge in a given amount of time. After this is the buzzer round, which is played jeopardy style, with the teams being asked questions and having to press the buzzer to answer.
In an interview right before the final meet, eight graders Nicole Papageorgiou and Allyson Care said the Academic Bowl is a really fun experience.
Each academic bowl competition is divided into two parts. The first challenge is to as a team, simultaneously complete a fill in the blank worksheet, a building challenge, and a scrabble challenge in a given amount of time. After this is the buzzer round, which is played jeopardy style, with the teams being asked questions and having to press the buzzer to answer.
In an interview right before the final meet, Nicole Papageorgiou and Allyson Care, two eighth graders who participate in this said the Academic Bowl is a really fun experience. This year, the Wood Hill team has won 4 of the 5 meets which is really good.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Students Mix-It-Up at lunch
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| Dan Ivanovich, Sona Chaudary, Emma Azzi and Jackie Hemman. |
On Wednesday, April 29, Wood Hill Middle School held a Mix It Up Lunch run and organized by the Student Ambassadors. At this lunch students were assigned to tables at lunch, instead of choosing where to sit. This forced students to sit with different people.
The cafeteria was decorated, including a balloon at each table. Icebreakers were also at each table, these were questions that were meant to “break the ice” or start a conversation at each table. Some examples include: what's your favorite food or what's your favorite Mexican restaurant.
At the start of the lunch, everyone was given a question card filled with Wood Hill trivia, then at the end the answers were revealed. If you got a certain number of questions correct then your group got free ice cream on Monday.
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| Sixth graders switch up their seating during Mix It Up Lunch. |
Most people interviewed disliked the event, explaining that it was uncomfortable being with people that they didn’t know. Others liked it because they got to meet new people.
History Comes Alive!
By Abby Chou
On Thursday night, May 21, almost all of team 6West and their parents were at Memorial Hall Library, for the presenting of the Andover Research Project iMovies. Though there were some technical difficulties, they were worked out, and overall it was considered a wonderful night.
It started off with a presentation by Emme Pitts, Emily Chen, Lizzie Jones, and John Lee about the process through which we made our iMovies. It involves being grouped, picking our topics, researching our topics at Memorial Hall, and learning how to use iMovie. After the presentation, the movies started. Each group of about four kids was assigned a topic about Andover history, for example, the fire department, the Andover Townsman, Shawsheen and Frye village, Phillips Academy and many more.
The movies varied, showing off the students’ creativity and skills with technology. Some used and interview to show what they learned, some used a game show, and some created a story related to the topic. Each video brought new and original ideas into the minds of the viewers, and the night was a great showcase of the students’ talents.
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| John Lee, Emme Pitts and Emily Chen. |
It started off with a presentation by Emme Pitts, Emily Chen, Lizzie Jones, and John Lee about the process through which we made our iMovies. It involves being grouped, picking our topics, researching our topics at Memorial Hall, and learning how to use iMovie. After the presentation, the movies started. Each group of about four kids was assigned a topic about Andover history, for example, the fire department, the Andover Townsman, Shawsheen and Frye village, Phillips Academy and many more.
The movies varied, showing off the students’ creativity and skills with technology. Some used and interview to show what they learned, some used a game show, and some created a story related to the topic. Each video brought new and original ideas into the minds of the viewers, and the night was a great showcase of the students’ talents.
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| Parents, teachers, students and friends enjoy movie presentations at Memorial Hall Library. |
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