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Math Club tutors middle school team

Noa Schwartz February 13, 2016

The Math Club hosted a competitive circle Jan. 30. The competitive circle is a community service opportunity in which all members can volunteer to facilitate and teach free mathematics workshops for local...

Illustration by Vivian Lin/Chronicle

Virtual Venom: The effects of cyberbullying

Angela Chon January 13, 2016

"Fat," "ugly" and "slut" burn into Lola’s* ’18 mind as she scrolls through a Facebook page with line after line of scathing attacks. As a seventh grader reading comments suggesting she should kill...

School holds Wang Hall reception

Claire Dennis September 10, 2015

The school honored Shirley and Walter Wang (Walter Jr. ’13, Chantalle ’17, Matthew ’18) for their lead donation to fund the Wang Hall renovation at the Middle School Sept. 5. President Rick Commons,...

Seventh graders visit Washington D.C.

Jonah Ullendorff April 29, 2015

For the first time, the Harvard-Westlake middle school sponsored a trip to Washington D.C. Thirty one students traveled with middle school history teachers Matthew Cutler, Lilas Lane and George Gaskin...

Spanish students supplement learning in Spain

Carina Marx April 29, 2015

Spanish students from eighth to 12th grade participated in the Aula Toledo and Escuela Montalbán educational programs while in Spain during spring break. They were paired up into groups of three or four...

Stone-cutters launches publication website

Emily Rahhal January 14, 2015

The stone-cutters literary magazine launched a website before winter break to attract more artwork submissions throughout the year and share updates from the editors. The literary publication went digital...

Middle school students attend grade retreats

Eugenia Ko October 14, 2014

Middle school students are visiting either local or out-of -town locations for retreat this week. On Monday, 119 seventh graders visited Long Beach and Culver City. They will spend Wednesday and Thursday...

Renovations to Wang Center affect classes

Jonathan Seymour September 3, 2014

Renovations began June 7 to modernize Reynolds Hall, which will be known upon completion as the Wang Center. While the building is being renovated during the school year, history, world languages, visual...

School to supply free software

Cole Feldman September 3, 2014

As part of an effort by the school to coordinate technology use by faculty and students, all grades will be able to download and install Microsoft Office for free by following steps that will be in an...

Wimbish announces All-Community Read

Justine Chen May 28, 2014

Head of Middle School Jon Wimbish announced "Pay it Forward" by Catherine Ryan Hyde as the middle school’s All Community Read May 19. The story follows Trevor Mckinney, who is assigned a project to...

Spectrum students win national writing, photo awards

Sacha Lin May 8, 2014

The Spectrum won five individual awards for its submissions to the 2014 Quill and Scroll International Writing and Photo Contest. Phoebe Sanders ’17 was named a Sweepstakes Winner in Opinion Writing...

MS students to visit SpaceX

Sacha Lin March 18, 2014

The STEM committee at the middle school will host a field trip April 22 to SpaceX open to all middle school students. SpaceX is a space exploration company that develops and launches rockets and spacecraft. Students...

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