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Category Archives: Wellesley High School
Wellesley High gymnast grabs state title
Freshman Christa Perry won the all-around individual title at the high school state gymnastics championship last night in Worcester, pacing the team to an overall third place finish. More here from the Globe and MetroWest Daily News.
Wellesley’s team has made a strong comeback after disbanding a few years back.
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Wellesley High investigates racial slur
Wellesley High School Principal Andrew Keough has emailed parents about an investigation by the school and local police into racial slurs carved into a boys bathroom at the school, according to a Boston.com report. WCVB Channel 5 also dove on this story, though it’s report doesn’t advance the story much.
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Why Wellesley High School stinks (or at least did)
Wellesley High’s Bradford reports that there was a skunk living in the school’s boiler room for the past year (and some babies joined the party at some point along the way), adding an unwelcome aroma to the first-floor area near the library. Teamwork between a school maintenance man, an animal control expert and a mason [...]
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Kissing PDA goodbye at Wellesley High
One Wellesley High student is taking a public stand against public displays of affection at the school: And he’s consulting “The Scarlet Letter” for a solution. More from the Bradford.
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Natick using new Wellesley High as benchmark
Remember how during the debates over the new Wellesley High School building (construction progress shown here) people kept bringing up Newton’s $200 million high school project, warning that we didn’t want to go in that direction? Now Natick is doing something similar, warning about not investing in a $130 million Wellesley High School-like project for [...]
Wellesley measures up with new MCAS growth model
The state has come up with a new way to interpret MCAS scores, one that looks at the rate at which students are improving their scores year to year. Here’s the scoop on how Wellesley students did according to the town:
According to the growth model results, high growth is defined as growth in a subject [...]
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Checking in on Wellesley High construction
Wellesley resident and roving photographer Peter Rovick sent along these pictures of the Wellesley High School construction site (and a fiery foliage picture to boot).
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Official numbers on Wellesley in-school H1N1 flu shot survey
Wellesley School Superintendent Bella Wong, in breaking the news to parents that in-school flu shots would not be available at least through November, said interest in having the shots was overwhelmingly positive:
The response to the survey regarding in-school flu shots was overwhelmingly positive.
The deadline for filing responses was last Friday. There was a 70% response [...]
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Wellesley High students visit colleges online
WCVB Channel 5 highlights Wellesley High students using a service to visit college virtually, a system that saves time and money, though doesn’t quite give the feel of being there.
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Boston Magazine best high schools charts online now
Boston Magazine has now published charts online to go along with its recent story on the Best High Schools in Eastern Mass. Wellesley High ranks 7th among public schools, Dana Hall comes in at #33 for private schools. Turns out the rankings were computed by a Babson College statistician.
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The dirt on the new Wellesley High School
Town officials and project members donned hard hats and broke ground Tuesday a.m. on the new Wellesley High School, a $130 million project slated to be done in 2012 (thanks to Beth Hinchliffe for sending along the photo).
More WHS construction info here.
Katherine Babson (School Building Committee), Joel Seeley (Symmes, Maini & McKee Associates architect), Alice [...]
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Wellesley High part of virtual classroom system
The Globe reports today on Wellesley and other local communities whose high school students are taking courses via the Internet in a program designed to offer more choice to schools with tight budgets:
Doug Brown, the site coordinator at Wellesley High School, said the program got off to a slow start this year, and has just [...]
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Wellesley High investigates more graffiti